Images are often a major problem for sites with slow page loads. Luckily, optimizing images is a very easy win. Images and page loading Whenever we audit sites for slow page loading, images are almost always a major part of the problem. Website builders seem to have forgotten that we need to resize and compress images before uploading them and not just leave them to the site's CMS or server compression software. Today we often see pages with megabytes of images on the page.
It 's megabytes . A page should never exceed 1 megabyte, let alone several megabytes, but this is a common finding. In fact, many sites even top 10MB per page . No web page should ever be this big – and when it is, there's almost always an image optimization problem. Just knowing jewelry retouching service how to size/compress/save an image correctly and implementing a process to ensure that this happens can solve a large percentage of page weight issues. So when did we go wrong? When I started in web development nearly 20
years ago, sites couldn't have a heavy load and still expect to garner traffic. Pages were fully loaded in less than 100-250KB - html, images, scripts and all. They had to be. Browsers and connections were slow. It had nothing to do with search engines. Sites simply couldn't load properly at significant weights. A 1MB per page site that I knew at the time took over 15 minutes to load. Yes, 15 minutes. Now that we are in the age of fast connections, sites have become very lax in monitoring page weight, resulting in sites reaching up to 25MB per page (true story).