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

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

DLB
 
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.
 
Nice tool! I got a 41 and 43 for mobile. High Priority Results says to scale images, just like HeavyMetal suggested about images. :goodpost:
 
I got an 82 out of 100...not too bad. Needs some work but I'm on my way I think!
 
SeaJay's said:
I got an 82 out of 100...not too bad. Needs some work but I'm on my way I think!
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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.
 
HeavyMetal said:
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.
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Yeah that's what it said. Scale images. Which I'll get around to eventually...
 
SeaJay's said:
Yeah that's what it said. Scale images. Which I'll get around to eventually...
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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%.
 
Great information

"You can help create your own luck, you can make things happen through hard work and intelligence."- Donald J. Trump
 
Zip guys, while checking out that link on the OP I started to look a bit more into this services, I found another one that seems as if it is automatizaded HERE the link in case you guys want to check it out, I just joined fdor the beta face, and I'm waiting for their response...
 
Many of the guys who program websites will already know of this link but here is another helpful tool for those who have their own websites:
The W3C Markup Validation Service

It validates your code based on the supplied version or can automatically query the website and determine it for itself. It tells you specifically any errors that may be in your website or that may not be up to par.

It can help immensely when trying to determine why something works in one browser, but doesn't work in another browser.

Hope this helps :dblthumb2:
 
Just went back to all the posts thanks for the info, I got a 92/100 does that mean my website is too simple?
 
I'm not sure how accurate this is. I haven't even built my page yet. All it has is the basic homepage with nothing on it and I only scored 62 out of 100.
 
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