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Manual caching

Hi

Is it possible to get php to manually cache all images for a website when the home page is loaded, allowing the other pages to load more quickly? This may or may not be a good idea, but the site is small so the total number of images will take about 5 secs on a 10Mbit line. The graphics are complex and need to be single jpgs rather than css trickery.

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Also, post a link to the site with the graphics on it - there may be other ideas once I have seen what you are doing now.

Thanks, ~Ray
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Cheers

the site is currently comprising of several medium sized images (1000*300 or 400*400 etc.). The link is:

http://92.48.65.172/~dtbsound/astro_and_prism/index.php
Your site seems very fast - the pages loaded instantly.  I would not worry too much about this if I were you.  

You cannot control the speed of the client connection, and the site may appear slow to anyone using dial-up or slow connections, but on a T-1 it's just fine.

If you are concerned about the speed on a slow connection, your only choice is to redesign the site to use lower-weight graphics.  But as I said, its inherent performance looks great to me.

Best regards, ~Ray
Cheers,

I've been trying to find percentages of people using broadband as oppose to dial-up because I'm on a 10MBit line and I'm not sure how many other people are. I would expect the site to be promoted to other people with quite high connections due to the nature of the content and the artists promoted and so it wouldnt be a huge problem but it was interesting to find out. I'll check out the solutions you mentioned in the first post never the less.

Regards
Kol