Multimedia applications - CCEAVideo, animation, sound and optimisation

Multimedia applications combine elements like text, images, audio and video and require specific considerations in their design.

Part ofDigital Technology (CCEA)Digital authoring concepts (multimedia)

Video, animation, sound and optimisation

When creating multimedia solutions, optimising your files for the web allows you to achieve a balance between quality and load times.

Fast leads to a positive user experience and is often used by search engines as part of their ranking algorithms.

Media resources that have not been optimized will increase load times and reduce site speed. This leads to increased rates of . This is extremely important for ecommerce websites, as slow load times will cause users to abandon the checkout process and not purchase a product or service.

Research suggests nearly half of web users expect a site to load in two seconds or less, and they tend to abandon a site that has not loaded within three seconds.

Graph showing how page abandonment grows as load time increases.