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Low Cost Web Site Design Secret Number Seven : Faster Loading Pages

You only have a few seconds to get your web visitors attention. You’ve done this yourself - you’ve clicked on a link that has text which really interested you. You’re used to a certain amount of wait time, but if the page goes outside the time you’re used to waiting, you’ll click over to something else.

Web surfing is an intuitive procedure. As such, there are certain habits we all get into. We don’t care that ten years ago, we might be standing in line at a library, or a bookstore, or at a seminar, trying to access this same information. All we know that now, we expect to get it within seconds.

Therefore, knowing this, it’s your job to get your information to appear as quickly as possible - you need faster loading pages.

One way you can make your pages load faster, is to minimize the number and size of graphics on your pages. The default setting of a standard browser is constructed to load at most, four images at once. Also, smaller images don’t take as long to load. Of course, if you’ve already managed these two items, and you still can’t figure out why your pages won’t load faster, you probably need to ask a web site designer for help.

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