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What is the best way to save images on my server for Page Speed?

by willyboy104
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Hi everyone,

I am looking for ways to improve my website speed and I am looking to save images in a different way on my site as I heard that having images in a sub.domain are more effective, is this true?

If so why?

If not then what is the best way?

Lastly, what other recommendations would people have for optimising page speed?

Thanks!
#images #page #save #server #speed
  • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
    If they are on the save server, it doesn't matter where you save them, they'll load the same. I think what you're referring to is a CDN - Content Delivery Network. You want to look into something such as CloudFlare.
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  • Profile picture of the author clickbump
    The idea behind serving images from a domain other than the one your site's HTML content is served from is based on the limitations of certain browsers to download multiple http requests from the same domain at the same time.

    So, the theory behind this is that when you spread your assets between multiple domains, it will allow the browser to overcome this limitation and download your assets in parallel, resulting in faster overall page load times.

    The absolute best resource for guidance on this topic, and the one that I've followed and adhered to in my theme design process is from Yahoo > Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

    Steve Souders has done considerable work in this regard and I've learned quite a bit from his experiments and optimization techniques > http://stevesouders.com/
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  • Profile picture of the author rankingconsult
    With extensive images on a long page then you can use Jquery which then only brings the images up as you scroll down.
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  • Profile picture of the author wisedave
    I second the vote for a CDN....I am using MaxCDN and it's dirt cheap!

    If you HAVE to use your own server and you are running a Word Press site, try the plug in called Smush It. That can help reduce the file size and thus speed up load times.

    Good luck mate!

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  • Profile picture of the author tjggs
    The best way would be to use a CDN for static content delivery.
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  • Profile picture of the author willyboy104
    OK, so I have an Amazon AWS account I assume I can host images here and use this?

    So, this would be better than hosting images on my own server?
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    • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
      Originally Posted by willyboy104 View Post

      OK, so I have an Amazon AWS account I assume I can host images here and use this?

      So, this would be better than hosting images on my own server?
      You can use either. A CDN will cache static content of your website in all of their datacenters.

      Example. If a viewer is at point A, and your website is at point C, point B is say a CloudFlare datacenter, the content can be served from B vs going all the way to C.
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