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Old 22-08-2008, 11:14 PM #1
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Default Any tips on making a site load faster?

Here's my site: http://richardbransonfan.com/

Does anyone have any tips on how I could make it load faster?

[Note: Deleted the old one because I accidentally made it a poll.]
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hmmmmm

get more bandwidth?

i agree it's v slow

did you code it?

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Who's Richard Branson? He looks familiar.

Anyway, try not to have to many graphics/text and I think a good bandwidth also has something to do with it.

I would advise http://www.moonfruit.com. It's as easy as making a bebo page, but it has the flexibility of most other website makers.
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get more bandwidth?

i agree it's v slow

did you code it?

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Sure did, from start to finish.

I've even optimized everything to load as quickly as possible.

The home page only has 3 images on it.

I'm just not sure what to do.
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Who's Richard Branson? He looks familiar.

Anyway, try not to have to many graphics/text and I think a good bandwidth also has something to do with it.

I would advise http://www.moonfruit.com. It's as easy as making a bebo page, but it has the flexibility of most other website makers.
He's the president and owner of Virgin.
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Who's Richard Branson? He looks familiar.

Anyway, try not to have to many graphics/text and I think a good bandwidth also has something to do with it.

I would advise http://www.moonfruit.com. It's as easy as making a bebo page, but it has the flexibility of most other website makers.
Thank you Conor, but I don't really want to start from scratch again. It took me a long time to build that site.

I guess I could take some of the graphics off, but then it would look really empty.
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Why do you have a site on him!?
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Who's Richard Branson? He looks familiar.

Anyway, try not to have to many graphics/text and I think a good bandwidth also has something to do with it.

I would advise http://www.moonfruit.com. It's as easy as making a bebo page, but it has the flexibility of most other website makers.
He's the president and owner of Virgin.
Oh thanks I thought Barrack Obama was the president lol

btw, nice site bigbr0ther, cant blame you for wanting to start again.
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Why do you have a site on him!?
What do you mean why? Because he's amazing and accomplishes more each day than most people will in their entire lives. He's done so much good and helped so many people.
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Oh thanks I thought Barrack Obama was the president lol

btw, nice site bigbr0ther, cant blame you for wanting to start again.
Thank you Conor.
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Why do you have a site on him!?
What do you mean why? Because he's amazing and accomplishes more each day than most people will in their entire lives. He's done so much good and helped so many people.
Well most people have a fansite on Rihanna or Lindsay Lohan - not the president of Virgin.
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Why do you have a site on him!?
What do you mean why? Because he's amazing and accomplishes more each day than most people will in their entire lives. He's done so much good and helped so many people.
Well most people have a fansite on Rihanna or Lindsay Lohan - not the president of Virgin.
Yeah but I'd rather read about the president of virgin than those two.. Richard Branson is so interesting actually. Well, in the Piers morgan interview for GQ he was...


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Why do you have a site on him!?
What do you mean why? Because he's amazing and accomplishes more each day than most people will in their entire lives. He's done so much good and helped so many people.
Well most people have a fansite on Rihanna or Lindsay Lohan - not the president of Virgin.
Yeah but I'd rather read about the president of virgin than those two.. Richard Branson is so interesting actually. Well, in the Piers morgan interview for GQ he was...


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You're an RB Fan too? I'm almost done with his autobiography. It's so good!
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Why do you have a site on him!?
What do you mean why? Because he's amazing and accomplishes more each day than most people will in their entire lives. He's done so much good and helped so many people.
Well most people have a fansite on Rihanna or Lindsay Lohan - not the president of Virgin.
Yeah but I'd rather read about the president of virgin than those two.. Richard Branson is so interesting actually. Well, in the Piers morgan interview for GQ he was...


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You're an RB Fan too? I'm almost done with his autobiography. It's so good!
I'm not like a fan but he is an inspiration and is a really interesting character.
MY BOYFRIENDS MET HIM :P
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Haa I'm sure there are many Richard Branson closet fans here.
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MY BOYFRIENDS MET HIM :P
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That is so cool!
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I'm not like a fan but he is an inspiration and is a really interesting character.
MY BOYFRIENDS MET HIM :P
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That is so cool!

I KNOW!
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"James, what celebrities have you met?"
"pete waterman... erm.. erm... erm...."
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"OH YEAH, RICHARD BRANSON AS WELL"

you'd think someone would remember that, but nooo :P
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I KNOW!
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"James, what celebrities have you met?"
"pete waterman... erm.. erm... erm...."
-ten minutes later-
"OH YEAH, RICHARD BRANSON AS WELL"

you'd think someone would remember that, but nooo :P
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Lol, that's hilarious. If I met Richard Branson, everyone would know. I'd even have t-shirts made.

Would you mind checking my site for me? I just made the banner much smaller so I'm hoping that it will load faster now.
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It's not small enough unfortunately.

I just checked it's file size, and the figure I got was 1,967,220 bytes.

The banner on my site, by comparison, is 34,289 bytes.

You need to tweak your file sizes. Try saving it as a JPEG (.jpg) - that allows a greater level of compression.
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png is good to save it as
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OK, to help, I've tried compressing it for you.

I've saved it as a JPEG, and it's file size is 52,190 bytes - that's 1,915,030 bytes less than your PNG version.

In addition, there is no noticeable quality loss.

You can find it here: http://i38.tinypic.com/2wp4ah0.jpg

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It's not small enough unfortunately.

I just checked it's file size, and the figure I got was 1,967,220 bytes.

The banner on my site, by comparison, is 34,289 bytes.

You need to tweak your file sizes. Try saving it as a JPEG (.jpg) - that allows a greater level of compression.
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Thank you both. I will try saving it as a JPEG.

Matt, what is your site? I'm just curious.
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OK, to help, I've tried compressing it for you.

I've saved it as a JPEG, and it's file size is 52,190 bytes - that's 1,915,030 bytes less than your PNG version.

In addition, there is no noticeable quality loss.

You can find it here: http://i38.tinypic.com/2wp4ah0.jpg

Matt, you're amazing! Thank you!!

I've copied it over to RBF's server and am in the process of updating the site.
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I hope I'm not intruding or anything, but I've also done the other two images on your homepage:

http://i38.tinypic.com/o0e5n4.jpg
(Original size 607,665 bytes - New size 32,613 bytes - Difference: 575,052 bytes)

http://i34.tinypic.com/72r2u0.jpg
(Original size 753,639 bytes - New size 45,611 bytes - Difference: 708,028 bytes)
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