Did you know? Search engines have a important policy: Slow sites are penalized by search engines. One of the common mistakes is to put heavy images in posts and product offerings.
The LAW is: You always, always, always resize your images in posts and pages. I recommend to have your images under 25 k.
The image in this post is 200 * 200 pixels width and only 10 k.
Worldwide many people are connecting to the Internet with slow connections. Your own connection is not the standard and probably faster than 80% of the world population….
On the web, the larger the image size the longer it will take the web page to load. For users who have slower connections, this matters a lot. People are bailing out if it takes to long to load a web page.
When building up your website to Make Money Fast you are filling your server with hundreds of images…
A case study in 2006 shows that:
75% of people would not return to websites that took longer than 4 seconds to load.
Top INternet Marketers ranked page-loading time as their first priority.
Would we agree that a 4 second load time is slow? Well 75% of people think so, they would not even go back to that site. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that these days people’s expectations are going to be even higher.
I use this free on-line tool to resize images, it works like a charm!:
