Site Downsizing

[undacuvabruva]

Well, as you probably know.
My site is HUGE, and i run out of BW all the time.
I was wondering if anyone had any quick easy ways to lower the size of each page.
I changed all my images to .jpg which substantially lowered the size.

Sage Tech, you said you sent me a compression or something like that...
i can't find it.

Thanks

[688206002]

Originally posted by undacuvabruva@Feb 11 2005, 08:54 PM
Well, as you probably know.
My site is HUGE, and i run out of BW all the time.
I was wondering if anyone had any quick easy ways to lower the size of each page.
I changed all my images to .jpg which substantially lowered the size.

Sage Tech, you said you sent me a compression or something like that...
i can't find it.

Thanks
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Which types of files are using up the most BW? (take a detailed look at your stats from cpanel) If it's the images, then yah go for the compression. You'll probably need to move some stuff to free image hosts though (I'd suggest moving the most frequently viewed images to image hosts; ie. home page banner or something like that) If other files types (ie. PHP) are also using up lots of resoruces (as is the case with my site), try recoding.

[Teelo]

If you have your header and border images hosted elsewhere like photobucket, then surely your page size will be lowered?

But I understand what you mean about the time it will take to move all your images to other free hosting, but I suggest you just move them a bit at a time, if you have lots of images. Move some today, move some tomorrow. Your bandwidth consumpion would slowly go down to the point where it is no longer an issue.

Another suggestion is removing some of those ads?
And an idea, maybe you could make your shoutbox a separate page, rather than an iframe?


As for reducing the file size of your images, I think using photoshop and lowering the quality for your .jpg would solve that.

Edit: Beaten by a whole three minutes, I should type faster. :(

[Sage Tech]

Originally posted by alphonse@Feb 12 2005, 08:02 AM
your page size will become like 2kb if you just link to the images...and i type much faster than you in one finger...
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You still need to reduce the image size as it's not just a bandwidth issue but also the time it takes for youe readers to load a page.

You should be able to change the jpg compression ratio in most graphices programs when saving the file. In PSP it's the options btton on the save dialog.

[undacuvabruva]

What is the compression ratio?
It it the same thing as file quality.
cuz right now the quality of the images is HORRIBLE, and it's at
95000 bytes or somewhere in there.
Any other advice?

[meow]

how about using an iframe instead of a div layer for the main content at the center? then you only have to load the frame everytime visitors click on the links

edit: if you store the images at an imagehost, you can save them at a better quality :D

edit AGAIN: opps! almost forgot ^^;;; have u activated hotlinking protection? make sure nobody can direct link your images! ><;;;

[JackZhou]

The thing that takes up the most space for me is the number of files. For example, for PHP-Nuke Platinum, there are thousands of files, and the combined size of file information stored in each file is unimaginable. The net size of the whole thing is about 20M, but plus the file information and all that crap, it takes 30M to store it.

[indomage]

I'm just wondering...
If we use an image refering to other website,
does it count as bandwith usage everytime
visitor load the page?

Thanks,
Rino

[undacuvabruva]

It uses bandwidth referring to the OTHER site you hosted the image on.
But it does still take all the same loading time