Speed up your download!
If your web pages are slow to open, the natural consequence is that you lose your visitors and thus it leads to the loss of your money too. There are different methods to speed up your download timings. The web design experts suggest to optimize the GIFs and JPGs for faster downloading. They suggest to remove the images altogether or to make it smaller and also to fix less stuff on the web pages.
All the above methods work effectively, but the problem is of actualization. Unless you don't want to make any change in your content of the sites or to make any change of color or quality out of your images, your web site will not improve. This leads to more problems and thus you begin to destroy your site slowly.
Perceived and actual download timings
There is another way to get your pages to open faster without making any compromise with your images or your content. This is a simple and effective method and it is not even discussed by the web design experts. It is important to recognize the difference between "perceived" download time and "actual" download time to grasp this approach. The perceived download time is the time it takes to have enough stuff displayed on your page for the visitor to be able to start studying your content. The actual download time is the time it takes for the entire page and all its contents to be fully downloaded.
The perceived download time is the one that really counts because once your visitor has something before his/her eyes to read or look at, and then there is less worry. And the visitor will not click away complaining that your page is taking too much time to down load. It is much better to break the content of your page down into two or more tables.
Compiling the table
Once a table is compiled it will display, and the browser will start compiling the next table. Web browsers will not start displaying the contents of a table until it has compiled the entire table to the end.
If you place the entire contents of your page inside one big table, the browser will have to compile the entire contents of your page before anything is displayed and it will take more time to down load. So, use small tables so that your visitors may not spend more time staring at a blank screen.
Another idea is that to put some of the important content at the top of the table and the rest of the page can be downloaded slowly, while your visitor is busy with the stuff that's already displayed.
This method has great effect on the website and the download timings can be improved from twenty seconds to a perceived download time of rarely three seconds. Some tables are bigger in terms of Kilobytes. More than one table takes more HTML than one.
Now make a test page and try it out!
