Slow web site

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

Thank you to the people who make this site possible. It is truly a boon to us poor long suffering gloating & insufferable Melbourne supporters.

One tiny gripe. The banner pictures, ie. the top one of the GF team and the "Demonland Merchandise" one ... appear to be giant images shrunk down to screen-viewable size. But the shrinking seems to happen on the fly ... they are still giant images. They seem to be downloaded anew for every page and it adds that extra 3, 4, 5 seconds, every time.

Doesn't seem like much but this poor long suffering gloating & insufferable fan, buoyed by premiership success, is unreasonably impatient and wonders if the pictures could be "pre-shrunk" to give a faster response.

Thank you

-Mazer

[mauriesy 7,296]

Yes, the banner image is 7488 x 1080 pixels with a file size of 7.06Mb. What's more it's a .png file which is much larger than a corresponding .jpg.

Very few people use a screen size larger than 1920 x 1080 which is the standard HD television dimension. If they have a larger screen, they usually use a smaller window anyway.

Loading it into Photoshop, reducing the size to 1920 pixels across and saving it as a jpg reduced the file size to 133K or about one-fiftieth of the size.

There is still room for economy in image size for web usage, even with all the memory and speed we have available to us these days.

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

Even the "The Demonland Podcast Will Return in the 2022 Pre-Season" pic (with cartoon Tracc  and cartoon Demon) seems oversized.

[Demonland 72,185]

Apologies. These were all recent changes and I didn't resize the images. Thanks for alerting me.

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

Well that was quick. Thank you for the speedy response. It's made a substantial improvement.

I see that some of the other images down the right-hand column are pretty big too. I hate to make work for other people, but it would be tremendous if those could be dealt with too (in the fullness of time).

Thank you Demonland.