Too many images on homepage?

[sonnas]

Ive been using a website grader recently, and even thou ive been following all the rule sSEO wise, they given me a worse mark than last time, reson being i have too many images in my homepage. they are mainly adverts. what does people think?

 

[andav]

whats the url?

 

[sonnas]

www dot reprebate dot com

 

[Kev Jaques]

Some images can be sprited such as brand names. Some can be 1 pixel wide such as one of the gradient images. One can be removed and changed to CSS background colour but will save you 1.5k (although still a http request).
Some images should be rescaled image wise not size wise i.e. using an 800*600 image to display a thumbnail.
Your overall page size is 134k for the main page, should try and get it under 100k if possible.
When it's all been cached it's not really an issue.

The main issue is all that bloated code in there from using Word as an editor, remove all that crap and it will reduce the page size. That has to load every time and is just wasting space, bandwidth.

 

[Deleted member 69689]

You could also "lazy load" the images, which basically means using a little Javascript that will make the images out of the viewpoint not load until a user scrolls down to them.

 

[sonnas]

Some images can be sprited such as brand names. Some can be 1 pixel wide such as one of the gradient images. One can be removed and changed to CSS background colour but will save you 1.5k (although still a http request).
Some images should be rescaled image wise not size wise i.e. using an 800*600 image to display a thumbnail.
Your overall page size is 134k for the main page, should try and get it under 100k if possible.
When it's all been cached it's not really an issue.

The main issue is all that bloated code in there from using Word as an editor, remove all that crap and it will reduce the page size. That has to load every time and is just wasting space, bandwidth.

thanks for feedback, could you be a bit specific as to reference to the "bloated code in there from using Word"? I just wanna try and make it better! thanks

 

[Kev Jaques]

Do a view source on the home page for example, you will find multiple entries with MS word rendered code that has lots of <w:WordDocument> entries plus css. Remove those sections and the page size will come down. Further optimisation will cost you in time to get any better results.

 

[toastking]

Just one question as I have done a fair few website reviews as a consultant. If it loads fast and looks good (which I think it does) and finally if its converting your visitors to sales, then do you really have a problem?

These things are out there to give you a general guide as to whether or not the site is good, but if you use a bit of know-how or have a site thats a little different to the norm you will find its not always entirely accurate with the responses it gives you. If you have done everything else, I would consider leaving it and working on other parts of my business.

For one I definately think the loading images as they appear idea is a bad idea, it makes the site look slow and choppy and people will wonder what is wrong with the site. It would only be working to cheat the evaluation, not as the actual website its meant to be.

Do you get my points or am I being as clear as mud? PM me if you have any questions.

 

[fisicx]

Don't use the website grader! Use your customers to tell if the site is effective. If they bounce straight off then need to rethink your layout. If you are converting above 4% then it means you are heading in the right direction.

 

No problem on images ,but you might like to sort out your keyword targeting also a bit more text never hurt SEO wise.

But as I say at the moment its hard to decide where you are aiming .?

Earl

 

[sonnas]

If it loads fast and looks good (which I think it does)..
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yeah its a bit difficult for me to tell as im on 50mb fibre optic broadband which makes everything seem relatively fast! But im glad u think its loading up ok

 

[sonnas]

No problem on images ,but you might like to sort out your keyword targeting also a bit more text never hurt SEO wise.

But as I say at the moment its hard to decide where you are aiming .?

Earl

That was the main idea behind getting this product new update type news on the hompepage- trying to give it more content.