There's more factors to just a web page being bloated that can cause a web site be slow, your users connection could be slow for example, but these are factors out of your control. What is in your control, is where you host your site and how well the pages have been designed.

With traditional designer made sites, the good ones will always optimise the site to use high quality yet small file size images. The pages they design will be tweaked and optimised to best of their abilities offering the nippiest of downloads. We know as we remember the days of 14Kbs modems when you really had to find a balance of good design and speed.

We've seen all too often, when a client takes over control of the content using a CMS, that the CMS expects the client to understand these issues, to know how to resize and crop images in Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop, tasks many normal users cannot do - and shouldn't have to! The end result? 1MB digital camera images displayed as a thumbnail on a home page, with just the browser resizing it to the viewer but still using the bloated 1MB data.

Webfibre CMS does all the image optimisation for you.

Any image a user uploads will be automatically resized. Not just visually, but physically creates a new file at the new size using a proportional resize with filters designed to smooth rough edges to create clean and crisp looking images from the originals.

Users can either choose an image from the Image Library or can upload a unique image just for that page/region. The Image Library is a great tool to give your users quick access to production ready images (of any quality and size) that they can use in their content. Alternatively, you can enable the "upload image" feature directly in the region the user is editing, allowing them the chance to upload a one off image directly into that image region.

Not only that, but in-line text regions users can also use the Image Library to add images directly into the text they are edited using the optimised image features of the Image Library and Upload Image options.

End result: fast optimised images.