Hi friends,
I think OFPEC should significantly reduce the size/number of the images on the frontpage, and elsewhere where the same images are present. The website has felt sluggish on a 8 Mbit/s connection since its launch in the current design. I did a test on Fri Feb 16 10:47:18CST2007 for
www.ofpec.com in
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ and that analyzer says the total size of data needed to download to represent the frontpage is a whopping 508141 bytes (496 kilobytes)! Don't you think that's a bit too much?
In addition, the website seemed to be more responsive when it was on hubba's server; when I request a page, it takes more time to start downloading the page than it did from hubba's server. This in addition to the quite big amount and size of the images makes this website feel, simply put, slow. My recommendation is to reduce the amount of images to minimum and seriously optimize the size of the images, as it currently seems that the images are quite big for no obvious reason.
Best Regards,
Baddo.