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Optimize Your Graphics for a Fast Loading Site
Images Loading Affect Your SEO Efforts!
Support : Busby SEO Test
Heavy images cost you money and traffic. They cost you money because they require both significant storage space and bandwidth. Since your web host will usually give you a limited amount of storage space and a maximum data transfer allowance, heavy graphics can cause you to exceed those limits, in which case you’ll have to pay extra.
Then, heavy images cost you traffic: put up a web page that takes more than 10 seconds to load, and your visitors will run away faster than you can say “back button”. If you happen to be running an e-commerce website, you already know that traffic equals money, so heavy graphics will make you lose both.
Fortunately, there is a solution: you can optimize your images for the web. Your images should be in either .gif or .jpg formats (.gif works best for logos and navigation buttons, while .jpg works best for photographs.) The idea is to reduce the size of your graphics so that they take as few bytes as possible while retaining acceptable quality.
