Just realized most digital art portfolios are way too slow to load

I was looking at a friend's new portfolio site last week and it took 12 seconds for the first image to show. He had all his work in 8K PNGs with no compression. This matters because people click away after 3 seconds if a site is slow. I know from my own site traffic that cutting image sizes in half doubled the time people spent looking at my art. How do you balance image quality with keeping your site fast?

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brian3032d ago

Man that's such a common problem lol. Your friend's 8K PNGs are killing his load times for sure. I always run everything through a free compressor before uploading, it makes a huge difference. Most people viewing on a phone or laptop screen can't even tell the quality dropped a bit.

uma_nelson851d ago

But what about people with good screens, @brian303?