Usage of internet all over the world is on constant rise and newer technology have come up to make it faster and better. Earlier base band connection (Dial-Up Connection) was used by most of the internet users but now broadband is replacing it. Yet major portion of internet users are hooked to base band connection (dial-up connection) for web connection.
Websites would loading properly with this connection containing text part, but problem arises in image loading. They slow down the load time, making the users irritated and restless. Thus balance has to be maintained between the image load time and right amount of images necessary to attract users.
After making selection of the images you want to upload on your website, then go about optimizing them for decrease the loading time. During the process of image optimization, all unnecessary information is removed from the file to reduce the size. If it is done in proper format than the appearance of the images would remain same.
Many times the image that you get from stock photo sites or digital camera are too big in size. Their size can extended upto 2000 pixels high and 3200 pixels wide, which is very big for any web page. Where as for a site an images should be wide between 200-400 pixels. Maintaining the size would place the picture in proper format on the web page and also leave enough space for menus and content.
The large image can be cropped and made smaller by using Photo shop tool or any other image editor. Thus when the pixel size is reduced, the quality remains the same and size also decrease. There is one more method of decreasing image size, by saving the pictures in a particular format when doing website designing.
After that re-save them as JPG images, this format eliminates the unnecessary information without affecting the visual quality of it. The format in which you save the picture affects the manner its being perceived, as a logo or a images. The reason behind is pictures that are saved in JPG format have better color quality. A logo that has numbers of flat areas of color should be saved in GIF for image optimization.
We all know that image are an integral part of every website, all text site is never liked by the users. Thus in order to attract the internet users they are to be used, here you can save on the loading time by carrying out image optimization.
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