Patience is a virtue and either you have it or you don’t. There is nothing worse than waiting and there is nothing that is more annoying than waiting for a website to load. There are some methods you can do to help keep your upload time quick. The first method is to try to decrease the size of any images you may have on a site. Pictures inhibit the speed of a site. Though on some sites pictures are essential, if you keep them to a minimal size it will help improve the speed of the site.

You can use a tool called Picture Dicer or an Image Splitter that allows you to take large graphic files and put them into smaller pieces and then put back together again using a table. You can also use thumbnails to point to a larger picture. The user can click on which picture they want to see so that all of the other pictures are small; the larger picture will come after.

Another method in improving loading time your site is to cut down or eliminate Flash intros, they look great but they take way too much time to load. You can loose a lot of traffic by wasting time loading flash intros. The same can be said of Java Script. If you really don’t need it then leave it out don’t add another reason for a slow site.

If you have any audio or video pertaining to your site, don’t have it come on automatically it will slow down your loading time. It works better if you create the site so the user can turn on the audio or video. You want to keep up the upload time and having it come on automatically could freeze up the browser.

If you have a site and you have traded links with blog directories or with just other people know, some of them may require you to put their logos on your site. Which may sound fine to you but again it will slow down your loading time. Try keeping them in your server until you need them.

As we have discussed many ways to keep your upload time to a good degree, there are also other factors that can contribute to the slowness of a site. Other things to take into consideration are your hosting provider how fast is your hosting service. Another way for a site to upload slowly also depends on the type of internet connection you have. If you have dial up then there is nothing you can do to improve the upload.

An average amount of time they say should be enough time to upload a site is 15 seconds. Some people with patience will wait for up to a minute, anything after that, they are going to leave the site. Nothing is more frustrating than waiting for a site to load. Anything you can do to help is a big plus.

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