Re: OT: Web site speed

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Not neccesarily. Jpegs are better because of their greater compression
settings, however this starts to trade off against quality pretty fast.

There is a service at http://www.netmechanic.com/ which
can help with many
aspects of site loading speed...

Ian.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 10:45 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: Web site speed


> Thanks - I'm not sure this would help... what do others think?
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> Mark Harrison
> Head of Systems, eKingfisher
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> Sent: 12 October 2001 10:37
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: Web site speed
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> quick one may be to standardise all the piccys to jpegs and not the
> mixture
> of jpgs and gifs you have currently, please note I am not a web guru
so
> I
> may be talking bo#%&ks
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> Paul
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> OT: Web site speed
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> Hi all,
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> An off-topic request to all you Web gurus.
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> B&Q are concerned that there web site's home-page takes too long
to load
> (it does!)
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> So the question is, what would be your recommendations for making it
> load faster? Bearing in mind that marketers control the look ;-)
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> Not sure if this should be on-group, so feel free to email me direct
if
> you prefer!
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> Mark Harrison
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