Is 323Kb too big for a background image ?

In all honesty I personally cannot say right at this moment, I would have to check my facts

 

But, you can use this to try to reduce it further http://www.smu****.com/ysmush.it/

Edited March 6, 201412 yr by Fuzzy Logic

I've seen a lot worse than 323kb

 

As a test load the site up on your mobile phone on a 3g connection. If the download time is acceptable then fine, otherwise think of a plan b

In all honesty I personally cannot say right at this moment, I would have to check my facts

 

But, you can use this to try to reduce it further http://www.smu****.com/ysmush.it/

 

Check your facts ?

YES IT IS

 

No more than 150KB tops

 

Run it through pagespeed and look at the waterfall diagram. See how long the image is holding everything up.

YES IT IS

 

No more than 150KB tops

 

Run it through pagespeed and look at the waterfall diagram. See how long the image is holding everything up.

 

I have it at 196Kb. Pagespeed says the page is 100/100%, so far so good.

 

Check your facts ?

Yes, I have not looked into recent acceptable image sizes recently as I have had no need to because I stopped building websites commercially until I finish uni

Edited March 6, 201412 yr by Fuzzy Logic

depends on your audience (certain audiences will be willing to wait a little longer or generally be on faster connections); depends on how big or small the rest of the page is

 

you can try this https://kraken.io/web-interface but really a link to the page with the bg image would be handy then we could advise on how much you could get away with compression wise or whether a small amount of smoothing/blur might be suitable.

 

@mr refresh web sites (don't know your name sorry ) *your* background image is 266kb the kb police will be on their way down to oxford

 

 

EDIT : oh, see your name is Darren

Edited March 7, 201412 yr by dap

I reduced it from 323kb to 196kb