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almost 9 years ago from Mr Kyle Mac, Designer @ mrkylemac.com
This comment here is what makes designer news awesome :) Plus this is something (part of the whole) I would give to a client after a ux review ... so this is high quality feedback for free (1-3hours billing otherwise )
Sweet man, I took most of your suggestions on and the load time is a lot better now —Thanks again Colm!
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No prob mate. I see you've cut the page weight in half so it's a start, but it's still the biggest site I've seen in years.
Currently there's 83 HTTP requests at 12mb. I'd aim for 10 requests at 2mb. Even that would be pretty large for such a simple site.
Some of the images are still massive. Anything over 250kb is questionable. Check out ImageAlpha and ImageOptim.
Really though, you should try to avoid loading so many images. Try just loading the first 5, then lazy loading the rest. Or try combining them into sprites to reduce HTTP requests. Or try loading them as the user scrolls. Or try loading the relevant images when the user clicks something. Or think about splitting your portfolio up into different pages. There's a million things you could try, but loading 65 hi-res images upfront is performance suicide.
Also, concatenate your 8 Javascript files into 1, so there's just 1 HTTP request. Do the same with your CSS files.
Also, the two arrow images you have, combine them into a sprite to save a request.
You'll get there eventually, best of luck!