hi Again,

I have one of my websites uploaded.
I;m making use of firworks tables and so forth. My images are not that large, but my site takes quite a long while. The size of page is about 15k

There is one thing i am suspecting.
All the images that are placed on to the the index.html are read from different folders on the website. Does this cause the performance to deteriorate?

Please help

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Having your images in different folders will have no effect on the page loading time (maybe a couple of miliseconds but nothing you would ever notice).

It is standard practice to do this so dont worry about that part of it.

15k is an acceptable size for a page with todays connection speeds, but remember that the 15k of the page does not include the image so you must add the page size to the image size to tell what the overall loading size of the page will be.

Check the image to make sure it is not too big. If it is just a small image on the page it should be around 10-15k for the page to load very quickly.



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Let's distinguish download times and rendering times.
A 15k page should load fast.
If you have the height and width properties set for all your images, the page should be rendered without waiting for the images first.

But there is another thing. A complex table-structure gives the browser more headache to compute. Rendering the page will be slower.

Also check your pages for coding errors. Browsers have become quite clever in displaying pages with errors. But - depending on the type of error - it can take the browser a lot longer to figure out what to do with the code.

Last: Try switching to creating your layouts with CSS-P. This makes pages ultrafast.

The client is allways right even if he is not.