Thumbnails to the Rescue!49% of visitors to your website will leave if your homepage takes 15 seconds or more to download. 75% will leave if they have to wait for 20 seconds. If you have a website that uses lots of graphics, you may be losing significant numbers of visitors as they go off to faster-downloading websites. So, how can you stem the tide? Thumbnails may be part of the answer. The larger an image file, the longer it takes to download. Instead of showing large pictures of your products on the main pages of your website, by offering thumbnail versions that link to larger pictures, you will keep your customers from waiting too long to see what you want them to buy. Click here to see what a difference thumbnails can make. You can significantly reduce the size of an image file by reducing its physical size and optimizing it for use on the Internet. Optimization usually involves removing colours and slightly reducing image quality to create a smaller file size that takes less time to download. You can ask your website developer to do this for you (they should do this as part of their service to you anyway) or you can do it yourself using some of the free utilities that are available on the Internet. I have listed a few of them below for your convenience. http://www.gifwizard.com We all assume that our websites are great and visitors want to find out what we have to offer. However, studies have shown time and time again that visitors to your site don't want to wait. Cut your download times and increase your business with image optimization. Hurry! Your customers won't wait another second. Internet
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