Re: Site bloated by images

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:39:54PM -0800, Warren Vail wrote: > MARG's suggestion is right on, > > I took a look at some of the images, and while relatively small at 250 x > 300 pixels, they end up displaying in an image statement that limits them > to 15 x 16 pixels (or there abouts) on the finished page. If you only need > 15 x 16 pixels, resize the files to that size and reduce the transfer size > to about 5 percent of their current size. What you are doing is > transferring all the pixels then asking the browser at the destination to > resize them. This will eat up bandwidth very fast. If you need to keep > the original image with lots of pixels, keep copies on your work machine > and not on the server. Yes, this an issue, but doesn't explain why it takes 20 minutes to load page in full, while 90% of the time is waiting for a response. I hardly think the problem is either php or image size related, there is something else wrong. Curt. -- cat .signature: No such file or directory