Not everyone uses a fast connection to the internet, there are still some people using dialup connections. Unfortunately some web page creators (they are certainly not webmasters) forget about this and create web pages that are way bigger than they ought to be making their page almost unusable to those on dialup and in many cases even frustrating those using broadband connections where no one should have to wait more than a second or two for a web page to load. If you are being constantly frustrated by slow loading web pages then why not turn off the images in your browser and speed the loading of the page that way. You should still see all the regular text content of the page as well as the alternate text that provides the same information as the images that you are not seeing so that you will not lose much by it and the pages will load a lot quicker. This of course does assume that the web pages have properly defined alt attributes on the images.

Text Only Browsing (Turning off Images)

Tags: alt, broadband, browser, image, slow loading web pages, web page creators