Selective JPEG compression in Photoshop
Despite the prevalence of high-speed connections these days, there are times when it is necessary to keep page-download times short. Some target audiences still primarily use dial-up systems.
I had just such a project when designing a home-page for a hospital site. A large percentage of visitors to the site have old computers and slow dial-up connections. A typical user is a middle-aged woman searching for health information for either her parents or children, and usually using a modem. We did not want slow page load time to discourage these visitors from getting the information they came for. Our goal was to get the load time for the home page to under 10 seconds.
The problem was, the home page is content-heavy and features a large photo of hospital volunteers welcoming you into the hospital atrium.
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