Check whether your website has Flash and other graphic design in excess of what it is supposed to have. This may be one of the reasons for slow loading of pages.
Very nice looking Website, and the photos are great. Too bad it’s table based. Why didn’t you use CSS layout? That could help speed things up.
I love the clean design though. Good job!
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The 2 top ways would be to optimize your graphics and content then look at your server.
Make graphic images smaller in size. Don’t go too far though and deteriorate the quality.
Hi Porsh,
A few quick optimizations you can do which i saw from firebug:
- Move all Javascript files to the body. This give the user a feeling of speed as the page renders faster.
- Concatenate all Javascript files in to one file. This minimizes HTTP requests
- Minify JS and CSS
- You could AJAX the images in once the page has loaded.
- Using DIV tags and not Table will make the page render faster.
I would be happy to help you set some of these up if you get stuck.
Use Image Caching and CSS Sprites. Both the techniques can help a lot in determining the speed of the Website. Other than that you can use compressed version of your page to decrease the total size.
The only problem with your site is huge images.
Shrink them to 85% quality, it’s more than enough.
For example
bg2.jpg
size: 164K
optimized version could weight 19%