Caching images

[jtbixler]

I’m working on a new theme for my site and the background image is 1.3mb and I was wondering of there is anyway to cache that so load times are a bit faster. Would it help if the fonts were cached as well? Not sure if this is an other or php discussion.

[TheDoc]

First of all, there is absolutely no way your background image should be 1.3mb. No way at all.

Having said that, here is a way using .htaccess to cache images:

# cache images and flash content for one month



Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000"

But let me reiterate, there is no way your image should be 1.3mb.

[jtbixler]

Thanks for the tip, and the reason that it’s that large is because I’m having it expand to fit large monitors and it’s 2563px x 2563px.

[TheDoc]

Still too large of a file, regardless.

[Argeaux]

if i save it for web to 50% of the quality in photoshop, it still looks the same and is 685 kb.

[jtbixler]

I was wondering what would be the best way to reduce the size, I’ll have to wait until next Monday to use photoshop at school.

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