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SOLVED Site Loading Time Concerns - CSS Compression ?

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    SOLVED Site Loading Time Concerns - CSS Compression ?

    Posted 15 years 2 months ago
    • I have a client who does not like the loading time on his site. I went to an optimization site and they mentioned that I could compress the css files. Can someone help me with this? I don't know how to do that or what to use to do it with.

      If you want to look at the site, it's www.arguellesautosales.com . I didn't feel like it was particularly slow, but this is a very persnickety customer.
    • Last Edit: 15 years 2 months ago by Maria Dacus.
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    Posted 15 years 2 months ago
    • wow Firebug tells me, site is like 1 MB. Compression will help, but not much. Your biggest problem is the main image. It's 500 KB.
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    Re: SOLVED Site Loading Time Concerns - CSS Compression ?

    Posted 15 years 2 months ago
    • Even with a large image overhead it still loads nice and quickly here in Tokyo. Tell 'em to get a better connection!
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    Re: SOLVED Site Loading Time Concerns - CSS Compression ?

    Posted 15 years 2 months ago
    • If you want to optimise, you can start with this page: www.arguellesautosales.com/index.php?opt...tact&id=1&Itemid=162

      Those images are huge for no real reason!

      And yes, your client's index page is not so bad..

      Without cache: 478.6 KB
      With cache...: 104.7 KB

      But you can remove the JS that "disables" right-clicks as it is useless and only adds bloat to the page. When i see such stuff i get a "90's flashback" LOL :D
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    Re: SOLVED Site Loading Time Concerns - CSS Compression ?

    Posted 15 years 2 months ago
    • Try some image compression tools. You can find a few online. They are called "Image Optimizers". I suggest you do this on any/all of them.
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    Re: SOLVED Site Loading Time Concerns - CSS Compression ?

    Posted 15 years 2 months ago
    • Thanks for all the great advice, guys. I ended up simply reducing the image size of the large image on the front page and he loves it now. Who'd have thunk? I will keep all these in mind for future reference, however. As far the large images elsewhere on the site - it's all I can do to get them not to upload every picture taken at 12 mega pixels!
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  • Re: SOLVED Site Loading Time Concerns - CSS Compression ?

    Posted 15 years 2 months ago
    • Great to hear! Yes users seem to have a knack for using 12 mega pixel plus images in their content ;)

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