>From: "Gary L. Edwards" <garyetx@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>I'm reworking my gallery site and I am trying to decide how big is too big
>for image files. I've tried in the past to keep the files under about 28 kB
>for a 650x450 pixel image. But, that is resulting in visible .jpg artifacts
Make your image smaller, and use less compression.
At an Adobe seminar I went to, they recommended keeping pages to under 60-90 k,
and keeping images to under 400 pixels wide.
Most dial-up lines do no better than 3 kB per second. So the above
recommendation will take 20-30 seconds to load, which is on the long side. I
strive for my pages to load in 10-15 seconds.
>And, yes, I know about progressive load images. How do you feel about
>those?
They actually take longer to load, although they create the illusion of loading
faster. A progressive will always be larger than a linear for the same quality.
I don't use them.
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