I have been trying to fix me site so it runs smoother and still having trouble with 2 main things

1.This page contains too many URLs.
This tag contains 306 urls. Some Search Engines have problems with more than 100 urls on a page.

2.The size of the web page is to big.
The size of the web page is 178591 bytes.

if anyone can take a look at this for me and suggest how to go about fixing these 2 problems i would greatly appreciate it. Im fairly new to the SEO field so please do not rag on me to bad. Any other comments on how I could improve my site will be welcomed as well. My website is www.GlobalTrucker.com

thanks

Well for starters, you could really lean your code out if you ditched the table-based layout and went strictly CSS. It's a big step, but would lighten the load considerably.

I think you're right on when you said 'the web page is too big'...you've simply got too much on it. Lighten up the content load...ditch some of the products, and for the love of GOD, get rid of the Google Ads. Why would you put any effort into your own website simply to send people away to others selling the same thing?

Personally, I don't think the site's too bad...it loaded up reasonably quickly on a cable connection, so i wouldn't go and optimize your images to death. For the sake of a couple of seconds loading time it'll save, it's not worth having pics that look like crap. You could stand to shrink the actual image sizes down a little, but don't over-optimize.

Hope this helps.

so when u say lighten up content, does that mean all the little items as well, like how to contact us link, enable cookies link, etc.. and if i have 8 main pics instead of 12 should help out also?

Your number of URL's is from your navigation. Not sure I'd worry about that too much.

Your page size is definitely from your images. Your header graphic alone is more than half the page size.

Use a photo program to edit the resolution of your images, but not to the point where they look lousy. However, the page did load reasonably well for me on both cable and DSL. Dial up visitors would likely have a problem.

Dave

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all photos or just the the header?

No no...that would be getting a bit picky. Just like you said, take it from 12 products to 8, and then reduce that actual physical dimensions of your images a bit. That should make enough of a difference.

For you header graphic, what you may consider doing is slicing it into 4 to 6 pieces, and then put it together using a floated, unordered list. If you have no idea what that is, see here.

I poked around your site and found that the product images are perfectly acceptable in terms of size.

A file size in the neighborhood of 12-16Kb is pretty common and there's little you can do to optimize them further without suffering a degradation in quality.


The header could be smaller still.

There's a trick to reducing file sizes when saving out .jpg images. Fistly, use tiny thumbnails that link to larger images. 60x60 pixels usually does the trick.

Because the JPEG compression is not very effective when it encounters extreme color changes and highly focused images, you can easily reduce file size by selectively blurring unimportant sections and reducing the contrast in the image before you save it out.

For example:

• scan a photo and save it at 150 dpi.
• Open the image in your image editor (Photoshop)
• Resize the image to 320 pixels x 240 pixels.
• Use your marquee selection tool to create an oval-shaped marquee that encircles the person's face, hair and upper torso. This should be the focal point of the image.
• Adjust the contrast to make the photo a shade or two lighter (more natural looking).
• Click "File/Save to Web"
• Set the quality to 54-69, choose "Progressive". Any lower and the quality starts to suffer. Any higher is a waste of bandwidth and bloats the file size.
• Set the image blur to ".19"
• Save the image.

works for me.

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Good replys by ran_dizolph and Dubbya.

In addition, appearance wise, when you reduce the size of your product images, try and keep them in the same range. Personally, I prefer larger than 60x60. I'd start in the 150x150 range and go from there. Your smallest image is 120x120 I think. If you make the largest dimension of your other images 120 by whatever keeps the proportions the same, may work fine as well. Being consistant gives a better feel and appearance IMO.

Your product images are at 72 dpi/ppi and your header at 96 dpi/ppi. Since your visitors are only going to be able to view at 72 dpi/ppi if I'm not mistaken, you can reduce that resolution.

Dave

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Right on,

Yeah, that's why I love Photoshop's "save to web" function.

It automatically reduces the resolution to 72dpi.

BTW, I use 60x60 thumbnails and 200x200 images for product details pages. It works out fairly well.

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Part of it has to do with the demographics of your visitors too. For example, one of my sites has an "older" crowd. They like to see bigger images. I found going 150x150 then 300x300 for the detail pages has been received well.

Besides, my eyes aren't what they used to be.

Dave

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