Hello, the lords of the curly brackets and the rulers of the semicolons...

Lets say I have a site that is relatively light, i.e. there is no much graphics and the pages are a generaly quick to load.
But I have a section with product description with naturally big pictures on.

So my question: Is it a good practice that I would try to preload the big pictures while a light pages are displayet? The main page? So ones the viewer reaches the product sections the big pictures will load from the cash.

I can see the drawback that if the viewer will never reach the produckt description section then he spend time/trafic for nothing.


Thank you in advance!
Egorka

As long as your pics are optimized correctly you should be fine. There's a nice (show/hide) script that I've used (on smaller sites) that keep all the content on the index.html. Makes a simple site even more simple. And again, as long as your images are optimized correctly, you shouldn't have to preload 'em.

The big ones are app. 150K and the smaller ones are app. 30K.
The app. logic of my navigation is:

main_page --> produkt_overview --> produkt_A_description_with_30K_pic --> large_picture(magasin page scan)_150K

I was thinking to preload 30K pictures at the "produkt_overview" page (I actually mean 30K pictures for ALL 25 products that are on sale), because a viewer probably spends some time choosing which product to look at.
And the large 150K ones once the viewer is reading the "produkt_A_description..." page.

But I actually what I wanted find if it is "normal" to preload pictures on the main page. I guess it could be a problem.

Egorka