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Just found out why my first website loaded so slow - it was the image sizes the whole time
I spent like 3 weeks building my first personal site in early September, a little blog about hiking trails in Oregon. I kept wondering why it took forever to load, like 8 seconds or more. A friend finally told me to check my image files and I found out I had uploaded 5MB photos straight from my phone camera. I read somewhere that you really only need 150KB to 200KB for web images if you compress them right. I used a free tool called TinyPNG and shrunk all 12 of them down to under 100KB each. The site loads in like 2 seconds now. Has anyone else run into this when they first started coding their own stuff?
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evan15129d ago
8 seconds doesn't sound that bad, people are way too impatient these days. You probably could have just let it load and nobody would have noticed. Unless you were hosting video files or something, 5MB photos really aren't the end of the world.
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Compressing those images makes a huge difference. Same thing happened to me with a site I built a few years back, now I always run everything through an optimizer before uploading. TinyPNG is solid, I've been using it for years.
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