Page with four images - 425 KB

[yoyomhz]

I want to know if a web page has four images
which total 425 KB, should I mkae it somewhere around 60 BB/ image?

How do I know what file size to make the images?

http://www.canadianairboats.com/boats/17x8forsale.html


Here is the page. Should those images be optimized more?

[Dan Grossman]

You could trim down the file size quite a bit without losing much quality. Here's the first image on the page:

Your version, 103KB in size:



Now the same image, at only 32KB in size:



Is the difference worth the page loading 3 times slower?

I just re-saved your image in Photoshop with the quality turned down to 50%.

[AlexDawson]

The best thing you can do is just try reducing the quality of the image until you see a noticeable difference (which affects the end image). Alike what Dan stated above, small changes in reducing the quality can make a lot of difference, especially in larger images.

[felgall]

You could quite probably compress the image a lot further than that 32k version and still have an image that still looks almost as good as the original 103k version. Also you probably will not want four images that large all on the same page so you might consider either splitting the page into two pages or using thumbnails images in the page and simply linking to the 32k versions for those who need to see the greater detail.

[Datura]

I tend to go with 30% compression for the images. That is in most cases just right for the web. Only for art work would you want to go higher, but then you would use a thumb nail image to click or a gallery that is set up where people are aware of the loading time larger images take

[yoyomhz]

thanks Dan, and everyone for the answers.

It's very helpful.




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