Example of a poorly resized
image
If you are on a high speed
connection both of these images have already finished loading. If
you are on a dial-up connection, the image on the right is crawling to
fill
in. WHY?
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This image
has been resized to 350 X 263 with picture editing software.
It is 35K in size.
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This image
was resized by the web page program to 350 X 263. The actual
image
is still 1280 X 960 which is how the camera created it.
803K in size.
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So even though the pictures appear
the same, they are actually different sizes. Resizing an image
will speed up retrieval times and use less space. A win-win
situation.
You don't have to wait for the
second picture to finish loading, you get the idea.