Mr. Warner's wordPress photography site was taking up to 60+ seconds to load. Upon inspecting Paul's site, I found large image files, multiple versions of the same image, this allows templates to appear to be responsive. I informed Mr. Warner that a mobile first website leveraging zero quality jpegs would drastically improve load times! And sent him the example below as proof.
The large area size of the zero quality image allows displaying at any size!
The high resolution image can only be displayed at the default initial dimensions! Even if its placed in a 12 column div.
Once Mr. Warner experienced how fast the above example loaded and how crisp & clean the double area sized, zero quality jpeg looked he was sold. I then educated Mr. Warner on mobile first responsive web principles, and how these principles would best serve users of his website via faster load times, and eye-catching wide format images on any device.
Checkout this quick loading fully responsive photography website.