Hi all.
I have this page:
www.grupopiccolo.com/Main/ilpiccolo. The background shows a series of images in a slideshow.
The site doesn't seem slow nor in my laptop nor in my mobile devices, but some client's firend told it is very slow. I think this could be because the images are not optimized enough, so I'm looking for best optimization tecniques.
This is an example of the images (576 Kb)
![My best optimization file]()
The original size exceeded 5 Mb. To optimize the image I used Photoshop. I've tried jpegtran also but the result isn't different: to keep a decent quality which allow to display the image full screen I'm not able to decrease the image size enough.
Any suggestion?
Thank you in advance
Interesting: a hard refresh in Ffx gives me 8,88 sec, in Chrome 12,37 sec. In fact I never got the impression it were unreasonably (does this word exist or do I've just invented it?) slow.
My problem now is that tell my clients about old software or slow connection can make me look as a bad guy. Because of another issue (https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28697011/Javascript-doesn't-work-on-smartphones-and-iPad.html?anchorAnswerId=40880526#a40880526) my client has not still accessed the site except from its iphone, so the statement the site is slow comes from his friends.
What I'd like to know is: generally speaking, are 500 kb images too big to be used as a slideshow background? I0m missing something about best practices?
Or I really have to solve before the other issue and then ask to my client if he think the site is slow?