On the site www.cainefashion.co.uk site the Mens category page contains 170 images totalling 1.9mb. The full page including html and javascript totalled 2.2mb.

The recent site redesign gives the customer the benefit of large thumbnails but this in turn increased the full page site by 700K. Especially were the page has so many images. To help improve the performance you can include pagination but the site owner really did not want to have this feature, as the click through rate for next page was very low. Continue reading →