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Wow, excellent article Tom.

I vote for FAQ. I’m in the process of setting up a site and this is great, Tom.
–Dave

Excellent - another vote to put this in a FAQ, or at least a “stick” at the top of this section.
After reading through, it made me take a good look at my site - especially the website optimization. I do loose sight of those with dial-up (I’m on 8000/768).
I found my header image is larger that anything else!

Thanks for taking the time to write this - I know I will be referring to in more in the future.

Excellent work Tom :slight_smile:

I agree with the others and think this should be considered for a FAQ…

-Bob

Tom, add another vote for putting this in FAQ…

I really like all of the information you included.

Thanks for putting the effort into providing this advice. We’re in the process of fine-tuning our website, and it’s great to have such a perspective on website design. I have a couple of books on the subject, and they don’t even touch on these aspects. The links to tools, etc, are valuable, too.

Do we need a section for tutorials?

http://www.chatburn-weather.co.uk/
looking good bob

did you see that now with windows media encoder 9, you can get wd to create compressed last hour and sunrise to hour all day moveies automaticly and upoad to your web site?
see in the all day video setup in the direct web caM capture

my web site came out ok in that web page analyzer
but it does not check the speed of all the images to load, its just looking at the html part

Yes, we’re already looking into that. But last time we tinkered with the web-cam you had to come over and sort us out. Can you just nip over again? :wink:

I see the problem Brian… your images are stored on a different site.

If you save the entire page using IE or Firefox and look at it’s size that way…

In which case your HTML is fine but you have 2 megs of graphics! 8O

Thanks Tom. As a computer illiterate I found it explained many of the points that aren’t mentioned in books.
I shall go through many of your informative and helpful links.

I found more reliable checker…

http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/page_size.cgi

But it doesn’t give approximate download time.

i was using my weather page carterlake…
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb/grahamsbeach.htm

it just reported on the speed of the html page …did not take into acccount all the images that has to be loaded! :wink:

mine got slightly different results. but not bad.

[quote author=windy link=topic=10384.msg77575#msg77575 date=1122842733]
i was using my weather page carterlake…
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb/grahamsbeach.htm

it just reported on the speed of the html page …did not take into acccount all the images that has to be loaded!

dang,my site sure is a hog, LOL

WebPage Statistics:
http://home.mchsi.com/~dsmweather/
Total WebPage Size 41751 (bytes)
Visible Text Size 2039 (bytes)
Size of HTML Tags 39712 (bytes)
Text to HTML Ratio 5.38%
Number of Images 49
Largest Image Size 617675 (bytes)
Size of All Images 1021100 (bytes)
Grand Total:
Images+Html= 1062851 (bytes)

WebPage Statistics: http://weather.dcrooks.net/ Total WebPage Size 19432 (bytes) Visible Text Size 4726 (bytes) Size of HTML Tags 14706 (bytes) Text to HTML Ratio 24.81% Number of Images 14 Largest Image Size 70281 (bytes) Size of All Images 204538 (bytes) Grand Total: Images+Html= 223970 (bytes)

Web Page Statistics http://www.tnetweather.com Total WebPage Size 19027 (bytes) Visible Text Size 4660 (bytes) Size of HTML Tags 14367 (bytes) Text to HTML Ratio 24.99% Number of Images 11 Largest Image Size 14531 (bytes) Size of All Images 49839 (bytes) Grand Total: Images+Html= [b][color=Red]68866 [/color][/b](bytes)

With frontpage there is an option to remove all white space, thus removing extra bytes when it uploads to the site. The down side is debugging from the site and of course you want to upload one direction rather than sync or it gets interesting as the site and work piece are exact, with no white space.

oy.