The Cost of Adding Images to Web Pages

There's lots of costs involved in adding images which people don't think about. Not just the image itself and the cost of uploading it, but the cost of actually the time and energy it takes for the web server to present it to you. And we know then that that cost visualizes itself in a number of ways. I mean, yes, it impacts the user experience because if you have to wait seven seconds to open a web page instead of three, that then isn't as enjoyable or useful or as good experience as a fast web page. Slow is generally bad. And it's also bad for conversion, for task completion. There's plenty of research out there that has shown that slower