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Optimized The Site
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France Thibault
9 posts
Tue Oct 23, 18 1:03 PM CST
Michael Leenheer
490 posts
Tue Oct 23, 18 3:09 PM CST
I can't help you much with the JavaScript part of things, but the 'Optimize Images' part is something you can easily do yourself.
The photos on your home page are a good place to start; it looks like you just copied them from your brochure. Getting them ready for online display is easy, and you can reduce the download size significantly. Two things to do:
• Convert the photos from CMYK colour space to RGB. They are set for pre-press colours, not for photography / video display. In Photoshop, click Edit > Convert to Profile, and choose the 'Working RGB' option (usually the very top one).
• Next, click "Save As" and in the second "Image Options" window change the "Quality" setting from 12 down to 8 or 9. On a monitor you won't see the quality difference, and it will reduce the file size significantly (~75%) and speed up your site.
The other part of "Image Optimization" is checking the photo dimensions to make sure you aren't using over-sized photos. That doesn't seem to be happening to you, on your home page at least. Client galleries can have high-resolution images, but for portfolio and website images they can be smaller to speed up the website.
I don't know if that helps or not - hopefully yes! Overall I wouldn't worry too much about this, GoDaddy loves selling you extra services ("Need optimization help?") but if your clients can get through and view your content then that's the main thing. These optimizations make it a bit faster but for people with high-speed connections the difference won't even be noticeable.
The photos on your home page are a good place to start; it looks like you just copied them from your brochure. Getting them ready for online display is easy, and you can reduce the download size significantly. Two things to do:
• Convert the photos from CMYK colour space to RGB. They are set for pre-press colours, not for photography / video display. In Photoshop, click Edit > Convert to Profile, and choose the 'Working RGB' option (usually the very top one).
• Next, click "Save As" and in the second "Image Options" window change the "Quality" setting from 12 down to 8 or 9. On a monitor you won't see the quality difference, and it will reduce the file size significantly (~75%) and speed up your site.
The other part of "Image Optimization" is checking the photo dimensions to make sure you aren't using over-sized photos. That doesn't seem to be happening to you, on your home page at least. Client galleries can have high-resolution images, but for portfolio and website images they can be smaller to speed up the website.
I don't know if that helps or not - hopefully yes! Overall I wouldn't worry too much about this, GoDaddy loves selling you extra services ("Need optimization help?") but if your clients can get through and view your content then that's the main thing. These optimizations make it a bit faster but for people with high-speed connections the difference won't even be noticeable.
Michael Leenheer || My Sytist: https://subphoto.ca/client_galleries/demo01/
Tim - PicturesPro.com
16,145 posts
(admin)
Wed Oct 24, 18 5:14 AM CST
You only have a few photos on your homepage but the ones in your slideshow are 650KB and 1.5MB. So those are pretty big. You might have the resize quality set really high in Settings -> Photo Settings. I would suggest changing that to 80 or 85, then re-upload the photos to your slideshow.
Tim Grissett, DIA - PicturesPro.com
My Email Address: info@picturespro.com
My Email Address: info@picturespro.com
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Brian Crussel
160 posts
Wed Oct 24, 18 5:23 AM CST
I run my files that are not downloadable (just for viewing) through PS Image Processor set at 1200 pixels on the longest side at 72 dpi. I then in PS batch save them with "Save for Web" at Settings "High", jpeg, convert to sRGB (if not already in that colorspace). Using "Save for Web" strips out all the extraneous garbage that can make your files larger but not improve their looks one bit.
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