A little tool for those that have their own web site...

**ROMEO** · 04-01-2011, 06:26 AM

I found this last night, and I have been checking my own site, I got a couple of tips on how to speed up my site a bit, since many here have their sites, I figure I would post it here in case it can be useful to someone here...

In my case, since my site has multiple pages, I have been running all of the pages thru the tool...

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**Porsche Pilot** · 04-01-2011, 06:32 AM

Interesting tool. My site scored a 39 out of 100. I guess I have some work to do. Thanks for the link.

Mike Phillips · 04-01-2011, 07:00 AM

Thanks for sharing this website/tool...

I'm going to move this to the "How to make money detailing cars" forum group because I think it's a better fit there in the context of creating a business oriented website although the tool could be used for any type of site.

**DLB** · 04-01-2011, 07:56 AM

Nice - thank you for sharing.

DLB

**HeavyMetal** · 04-01-2011, 09:22 AM

Guys,

I'm a web programmer. The number 1 speed killer I see is image resolution. Computer screen resolution on Apple is only 72dpi, on PC it's 96 dpi. If your photos or other images are higher resolution than that, you are wasting bandwidth and a lot of load time. Scale your image resolution down. And, keep the image size down. The larger the image the more bandwidth you'll need.

**A4 1.8tqm** · 04-01-2011, 10:00 AM

Nice tool! I got a 41 and 43 for mobile. High Priority Results says to scale images, just like HeavyMetal suggested about images.

**SeaJay's** · 04-01-2011, 10:19 AM

I got an 82 out of 100...not too bad. Needs some work but I'm on my way I think!

**HeavyMetal** · 04-01-2011, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by SeaJay's

I got an 82 out of 100...not too bad. Needs some work but I'm on my way I think!

82 is pretty good. Unless you have some images to scale, I don't know that I'd spend a whole lotta time on the other stuff.

**SeaJay's** · 04-01-2011, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by HeavyMetal

82 is pretty good. Unless you have some images to scale, I don't know that I'd spend a whole lotta time on the other stuff.

Yeah that's what it said. Scale images. Which I'll get around to eventually...

**HeavyMetal** · 04-01-2011, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by SeaJay's

Yeah that's what it said. Scale images. Which I'll get around to eventually...

Guys,

Develop a standard practice with your photos and images. As soon as you bring them into Photoshop, PhotoImpact or whatever you use, set the resolution to 72dpi immediately. There is no computer on the face of the earth that's gonna make use of your 5Meg 1200dpi digital image. So drop them down to 72.

I also recommend using quality of 90% and Progressive download (image progressively loads rather than the page having to wait for the whole image). And keep the darn size down. 2 x 3 or 3 x 3 is plenty big. If you want bigger pics for work examples, put them in a photo album and let users click thru. Don't plaster big images all over a page. People will grow old waiting for the display.

If you print brouchures, find out what dpi they like (usually 300 - 600). Create 2 folders, one for web and one for print. I typically save print images as TIFFs or PNGs, the quality is higher. However, some shops still prefer JPG. Just run the quality to 100%.