RE: OT: Web site speed

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Steve,

Thanks for the detail suggestions. Presumably the use of a white
background rather than a transparent one is to speed up the rendering,
rather than particularly reducing the size of graphic to be downloaded?

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Morgan [mailto:steve@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 October 2001 11:25
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: Web site speed


Mark,

It'll take some time to go through it and make much in the way of
significant recommendations but it is rather large. The combination of
HTML, graphics and cascading style sheet is around 107KB, split roughly
50/50 between the HTML and the rest.

The last row of the nav. table at the top contains 13 columns with
nothing but stretched spacer GIFs. They could probably go, but we're
talking about saving a couple of hundred bytes, so not much in the grand
scheme of things.

There's also probably a couple of hundred bytes of extra whitespace,
presumably because the page is generated dynamically.

Use JPGs for photographs and GIFs for 'graphics'. Instead of relying on
transparency (which you can't for JPGs), put them on a solid background
of the right colour.

Try to reduce the colour depths of the graphics. Photoshop allows you to
lock important colours and then reduce the rest.

If I see anything else of use, I'll let you know.

Cheers,
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 October 2001 10:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: Web site speed


Thanks - I'm not sure this would help... what do others think?

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

-----Original Message-----
From: pmiller@xxxxxxx [mailto:pmiller@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 October 2001 10:37
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: Web site speed



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

Paul





"Mark Harrison"

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Subject:     [ukha_d]
OT: Web site speed
12/10/2001 11:18

Please respond to

ukha_d









Hi all,

An off-topic request to all you Web gurus.

B&Q are concerned that there web site's home-page takes too long to
load
(it does!)

So the question is, what would be your recommendations for making it
load faster? Bearing in mind that marketers control the look ;-)

Not sure if this should be on-group, so feel free to email me direct if
you prefer!

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher