Many new website owners wonder why their website seems to load slower and slower. A common culprit is overly large image sizes. Yes, a webpage probably weighs less than 10k, but the photos it contains are often over 1,000k (1MB), and thus the photos are the main reason most web pages run slowly. When your site is lighter, loading speed gets much better. If your site took several seconds to load before optimizing your images, these could now become milliseconds. Research shows that larger … [Read more...]