The most common reason for long downloads of a Webpage is large graphic filesizes.

Many teachers simply take a digital photo or scanned image and resize to fit on the Webpage failing to realize that the original file and size are still the links that are downloaded by the visitor's Web browser.

To avoid this problem, an image editing program such as Adobe Photoshop Elements© should be used to prepare the image for use on the Web. Within the program you can adjust compression, colors, size in pixels, and balance download times with quality as you compare the two images side by side.