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What is Optimize?

To fine tune a program so that it runs more quickly or takes up less space. To make efficient.

A webpage can be overfilled with content, causing the page to take a long time to load in the browser or causing the page to be difficult to easily read and digest.

Optimizing your webpages is accomplished by limiting the content of any one page and by not using images that are so large that the viewer will get impatient and leave your site.

Optimize Your Webpages

Try and make webpages that will load in 10 seconds or less in a browser using a 56K modem internet connection. While this is not always possible, there are some things you can do to Optimize your pages.

1. Break long pages into shorter ones and link them together.

A large page can take a long time to load in a viewer's web browser. It's likely that they will lose interest and go to another website. Nobody likes to wait for a big webpage to load.

If your page is long, create several separate pages and link them to one another, providing a series of pages that will hold the interest of the viewer. After all, this is what made the WWW so unique to begin with, the use of hyperlinks.

2. Reduce the total number of images on your page.

Too many images on any single page will cause that page to take a long time to load in a web browser. Make your pages appealing to the viewer by providing a balance of text and images on the page.

3. Reduce the width and height of images.

You can resize your images by using a graphics editor. Resizing an image can greatly reduce the amount of kilobytes of the image.

4. Do not use a large sound file as background sound for your page.

5. Use Optimized Images on your pages.

How to Optimize Images

Image Optimization: To make an image file smaller in overall size, not by changing it's dimensions but by removing some of it's colors, while retaining the quality of the image. By size is meant the total bits or bytes of data.

Example

These two images have identical dimensions. The one on the top has been optimized and the one below is not optimized. Can you detect any noticable differences between them?