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Your graphics on your sites can slow down how fast the site loads up - and can be costing you to lose your visitors. People will sit on a site only so long before clicking away if it doesn't load quickly enough. The graphics include backgrounds, banners, images and photos, buttons, certain types of links and text, etc. You should take each and try to compress it to less than 10 Kb - and have only a very few of them on any page. Make sure not to lose too much quality, or choose a different graphic.

To find out the size of your graphic, position your mouse over it and right click and choose "properties" - then you can see how large the file size is on each graphic.

A great program, and highly recommended is http://tinyurl.com/1sks You can compress a lot of graphics with a small account, and you can run a free site scan to test your site. It will work with many types of graphics, and give you a cost comparison between each type of compression. You can crop and edit your graphics, too.

Bottom line is - reduce the file size of your graphics or be willing to lose site visitors.

P. Roe does website optimization work, and is working on her sites all the time - many are in number 1-10 ranking on Google and Yahoo! Subscribe to "Wise Little Tidbits" for more optimization tips. mailto:ezineshere@aol.com?WLT http://doubleii.com/webservices.htm