slow loading of background image

bronzie

Hi all,

I wondered if someone was able to help me, I am in the early stages of creating a new website on which I want to use a series of background images, so 1 per page.

The problem is, when I publish it and preview it in a browser the images take a few seconds to load. I understand that on first viewing the images have to be retrieved from the server as when I revisit the page it loads straight away.

I have tried reducing the size of the images but that didnt help, is there anything I can do to stop this as it looks really unprofessional. The background images are in a seperate style sheet at the moment, I thought about taking it out and putting it into the page instead, would that help?

Thank you in advance
Bronzie.

M4RKM

link?

so i can check how big the image file actually is?

M

aliEnRIK

Sounds to me like the image provider your using isnt too hot

bronzie

Hi Markymoo

The file sizes range from 1.32Kb to 12.1Kb if that helps...
Here is a link: http://vega.soi.city.ac.uk/~gx878/website/index.htm

Bronzie

vyseyboy

They load pretty much instantly for me, looks good.

You sure it isn't a slow internet connection at your end?

aliEnRIK

Instant for me too ~ something at your end mate

bronzie

Oh really...well I guess that's good to know.

My internet is a bit sparadic anyway, I won't worry about it then.

Thanks everyone!
Bronzie