Question

Is it possible to improve Website background image to load faster that it is. My website’s background image size is 1258X441 and memory size is 656KB. Its taking too long to load complete background image while accessing my website. Is there anyway than Compressing (As the image is already compressed) to improve its loading speed.

Answer 1

Choose: (2. is my main solution, and 3.)

1. Compress image even more, because image is background, it doesn’t matter that much. Users do not focus at background as much as they do at content.
2. Since background is partially covered by content, you can paint black (or any other solid color) the part of background that is not visible (is behind content). This will make the image compress more nicely, sparig some place.
3. Save image in JPG progresive compression. That will make background display in gradually more quality as the image loads.
4. Get rid of background image. (obvious) 🙂
5. Today’s web speeds are big, don’t change anything.

ALSO: If your PNG image has any repeating parts, you can then slice your image in three parts and spare a lot of space.