Hi, you can reduce it with pixresizer, remembering to reduce the physical size as well.
But you need to resize other images on the page as well. IE:…….
http://www.noplacelikehomere.com/mon...CLIP%20ART.gif is 465kb & would be better around 4kb.
http://www.noplacelikehomere.com/mon...CLIP%20ART.gif is 68kb & wants to be about 3kb
This is similar on most images.
On the main background! If you just want sky, you would be better using a sky background image like the attachments..
For resizing, have a look at the links below.
Good luck.