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How I Cut size of JCL by 82%


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Thought I was going to choke! I'm typing this soon as I came down from the ceiling!

 

If your client base is heavily populated with dial-up users and you have a huge number of manufacturers, DO NOT use the manufacturers box.

 

Not many site builders will bend the needle like one of my sites does, but I saved 82% of the (html) weight by disabling the manufactureres box.

 

I am including a link to a fantastic benchmarking tool, I am not endorsing anybody so don't get in a snit.

 

ref.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

 

 

BTW -- The title should have read 'HTML' not 'JCL', I program in both the mainframe and internet areanas daily, you can tell how surprised I still am to save so much bandwidth.

 

Got to love it!!

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That's a great tool!

It found that I have half a meg of images loading on index.php, and that the stylesheet file is too big. how can I reduce these?

 

-Ethan

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You need to upload your own thumbnails or use a tool that actually resizes the picture file to a thumbnail. The stock oscommerce picture upload only resizes the dimensions of the picture, not the file itself. If you upload pictures of 50K on average, and you have 9 pictures in your what's new section on your main page, then you have 450K being loaded. That is just not acceptable. Upload thumbnails when you enter the product description, then put larger images into each products description using img src tags and uploading the files manually. There are probably contribs that do this same thing, but I find it easiest to do it myself.l

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