Faster downloading pages from my website to browser

[gone fishing]

Hi all.

Phew! it's me again already.

I would like any help you could offer on how i can get my webpages to download faster to the browser my potential viewers can see if they are only using a 56k modem....(dial up)....
i currently have broadband and front page (oooh) tells me i have some slow pages ranging from..30 seconds to a massive 365 seconds.....i have tried to make the images smaller in detail and crop to an inch of visibility and says it's still taking ages......any help would be appreciated....oh i realise the answer would be get them to upgrade to broadband...but is there any other way.....

Could i for example chop out some spaces in the html to make it seem compact, or it's not gonna help?


Thanks to all who can help
Tom GF.

[chubbs]

u can slice the images and make them separate and it will load faster

[moojoo]

A link would be good. But yeah you should recycle as many elements as you can, make sure your image files are small as possible and of course lean and mean semantic markup.

[gone fishing]

Hi Chubbs.

You say slice the images....could you explain this in more details please, do you mean to seperate them into another folder?...i'm lost
Tom

[gone fishing]

Thanks to you Moojoo also....
i think the pages are well linked to other pages....."recycle as many as i can"...i'm unsure how to recycle elements....lost me too......i know if i use an image in another page it's a copy of the original image from another page...thats my extensive knowledge of recycle.....i've got tons to learn mate.
Tom

[moojoo]

What I meant was using CSS etc you can comprise a very nice layout using only say 3 very small images. http://www.newguyinennis.com for example. The entire layout is 3 or 4 images used. Loads fast, printer friendly etc etc... Check the source and the CSS to see what I mean.

[chubbs]

I meant cut the images up to 2 or 3 piece and name them separetly and it will load faster

[ukgeoff]

Also, any common page code such as navigation, header, etc., should be in seperate files that are 'included' into your pages.

Because the browser caches files, these only get loaded when the first page is called and then reused with subsequent pages.

Can make a huge difference to download speed.