size of Pages

[pnagames]

Hi all

i have a "generic" question about actinic

we have structured the catalog by console and then by name (page for each letter more or less)

however we think that some pages are becoming heavy (and they will become heavier in the near future)

E.g. http://www.pnagames.com/acatalog/S__PC_.html

can someone suggest alternative way to structure this without adding any levels on the structure?

[Duncan Rounding]

That page is 2.6Mb - the images are 2.4Mb.
Optimising the images should be the first port of call.

Apart from the loading time - having so many products on one page (especially one under the other) is difficult to use and I wouldn't scroll down that far looking for something. You could also try having your products in columns to reduce the page length. Ultimately I think you will have to break these sections into smaller ones.

[pnagames]

Hi Duncan

thanks for your reply.

i think we are wasting a lot of bandwith as you have illustrated. (2.6mb for somebody looking for a specific product is a lot)

we always scale down the images and on average are 20-30K each

i think we will have to add another level unfortunately then on some of the sections (exceeding 20 products per sub section)

is it a way for me to make the first page to appear as the 1st part of the subsection? I.E. when you click s(PC) on the previous page to get the S(PC) 1-20 and not another page with the split (like you normally do)?

[Duncan Rounding]

On that one page you have eight images that are 175Kb to 250Kb each - you might be able to save >1Mb by optimising those alone.

[pnagames]

thanks duncan i will do a site refresh cause we have all the images changed on the hard drives.

[pnagames]

how do you measure the size of the pages?

[pnagames]

also is there a way to move the image of each product more to the left and expand the details (so the text will take a more reasonable form)

[pinbrook]

how do you measure the size of the pages?

http://community.actinic.com/showthr...ghlight=plugin Lori toolbar

also is there a way to move the image of each product more to the left and expand the details (so the text will take a more reasonable form)

this site deals with long product pages very well crazydaves.co.uk/MagiColour-5430DL.html

[Duncan Rounding]

Web-developer Toolbar for FF is what I use - full of useful featues - very very useful: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

[pnagames]

tried both things and they report wrong sizes (do i need to do anything else except installing them)???

sorry for being thick

for the page above game a size of 122Kb (???)

i know some of pictures on their own are larger than this

[los_design]

how do you measure the size of the pages?

If you use DW look in the bottom right hand corner of your working environment.

If not, FF as mentioned is great. There are also a raft of free tools out there to check your page speed, size etc.

HTH

[pnagames]

can someone check for me the size of the abope page now?

we had sorted all the images a while ago but we needed to do a site purge and refresh

[Duncan Rounding]

Just under 1,2Mb - a large improvement but still a heavy page.

[pnagames]

thanks Duncan

sub-sections will be next

i am looking to reduce the size to 1/2 of that for the moment untill we redo all the general images (bar images etc)

is that realistic?