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If Web Page Analyzer recommends you to optimize your graphics, here are some hints that you might find useful:

1. Sometimes .GIF produces smaller images than .JPG. You will not know until you have tested it.
2. When storing images as .JPG, many graphics programs let you reduce the quality of your pictures to make the files considerably smaller. You may decide on a more efficient compression ratio, or even run a built-in optimizer to make images smaller.

The image at the top of this page is 4 348 bytes large. Let us see the effect of storing it in various ways. These file sizes are realized using the PaintShop Pro software:

	Size in bytes	Method used
	16 087	.GIF version 89a
	16 087	GIF version 87a
	9 644	.GIF version 89a Optimized
	4 109	.JPG 50% compression
	3 754	.JPG 50% compression using Irfanview , a very fast, small, and free graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP