Website seems a bit slow-loading..

[basepointdesignz]

Hi,

I bet this question has been answered many many wonder times, but i was wondering if someone could take a look at this site i've been working on - its been uploaded to one of my webspaces but seems to load all images (jigsaw piece background images) really slowly..

Does this happen for everyone and if so, how can i speed up the overall loading times?

Its @

http://www.hardwiredstudios.com

Thank you..

Cheers,

Paul
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[feherke]

Hi

Personally I would start with this, although it not causes slowdowns directly :

2881 Errors, 2867 warning(s)

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://www.hardwiredstudios.com/

By the way, have you tried YSlow's suggestions ?

Feherke.

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[johnwm]

24 background images, 36 HTTP requests, over 920K of uncompressed images to start with. Then consider that nested table layout is generally considered to be slower loading than modern <div> and CSS design.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I'm very sure that the 24Kb 1px * 2000px bg image doesn't need to be 24Kb in size, nor 2000px high!

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[basepointdesignz]

2881 Errors, 2867 warning(s) - Blimey!

Mind you, looking at most of those errors they seem to be caused from the code that Dreamweaver puts in automatically (i have done very little coding myself apart from obvious changes / additions but none of these would have affected it). Seems rubbish that a professional html editor like DW can cause so many errors etc with its automatic coding, anyway i digress..

The rest is refering to code that must have been automatically added to every page when i uploaded it - literally 100's of lines of google ad links etc - how did that get there that what i want to know? Wasn't in the local copies of the files, only the server-side ones..

Well, after removing all the rogue spyware links from every pag, a few jiggery-pokeries and re-uploading, re-did the

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://www.hardwiredstudios.com/

and it only had 6 errors this time - still on about some attributes and that, which dreamweaver puts in or has in its intellisense lists that pop up, so dunno whay they're wrong but still..




Cheers,

Paul
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[traingamer]

Visit Web Site Optimization to get a report.

You have a lot of (read: too many) images. They are also not optimized; I suspect you could compress the images a great deal with little loss of quality.

Why are the images sliced? Optimize them and use use just one Wembley graphic (for instance) and that will be that many fewer requests to the server.

Greg
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