RE: FN-FORUM: Bandwidth issues

date posted 31st January 2007 12:11

Hi Michele, you sent me the url off list so I'm assuming you don't want to
publish it here but after looking at the site your client can substantially
reduce her page sizes by learning how to size and compress her images
correctly.

Most of the images on the site are large images 50k+ and have not been
compressed correctly (Use fireworks for best jpg compression) and also many
are resized in the browser (HTML) from much larger images.

Most of the images could be resized to the needed dimensions and compressed
to say JPG at 70% and would be more like 8k instead of 50k with little or no
loss of quality.

Current homepage size of 370k could be reduced to under 100k without any
loss of quality. That's almost a 1/4 of the current size (so saving 3/4 of
the current bandwidth usage).

As suggested you can also check there logs, SmarterStats has a nice
bandwidth report that can dig down into all areas of your site.

Regards
Sam Morgan
WiredEyes
tel (Uk): +44 (0)20 7100 2178
tel (Italy): +39 070 773 6543
web : www.wiredeyes.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of
> Michelle Penny
> Sent: 31 January 2007 12:54
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM: Bandwidth issues
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a client who manages her website she has gone over the webspace
> limit a few times and we've been able to sort this out, however
> recently
> she went over her bandwidth limit and to lower it I recommended she
> reduce the size of some images (they were all fairly large) and also
> some content. The website is however still over and I was wondering if
> anyone had any other tips for reducing it ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Michelle
>
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