Larry Jaques wrote:

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:46:37 -0600, Ignoramus24995
wrote:

On 2015-12-31, Ed Huntress wrote:
FWIW, my 60 Mb Internet connection downloads the largest of those
photos in a little less than two seconds.

The image size issue is something we wrestle with all the time in
online magazines. At Fab Shop, we use an underlying PDF file, so our
photos are JPEG-compressed like hell.

What I do in most places, like my project pages, is that I provide
thumbnails of decent quality, like 400x400. They link to pictures of
very good quality (loosely defined).

No, you have not, in most instances I've seen. Some pages have
specified a display size but the entire file has to download to
display it at that rez. I don't recall ever seeing a fast-loading
page from you in the past several years. Cites, please?

My ebay pictures are about 500 kb.

That would be a whole lot better. The file in question this time is
exactly FIVE MEGABYTES and sized 5312x2988x16M.
http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Equipment.jpg


There is a local guy that sells EAS broadcast equipment to AM & FM
radio stations. He uses huge image files, then thinks that the
'Constrain' command reduces the size before it is downloaded. I tried
for over an hour to convince him to scale the images first. The server
was so slow that one image took over 10 minutes to download. The size
that it was displayed would have downloaded in about 15 seconds. So,
the last time I looked, he still hadn't fixed it, and he was paying a
higher fee to the hosting company because of his sloppy programming.