Keep in mind that a lot of usability tests where written in a time that 
everybody used a 56k modem.
Nowadays people take 500k in less then 4 seconds from the web. Maybe its 
time to reconsider this 150kb limit.

Greets

Sjors


Joost Nuijten wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are working on a Flex-based website. We've discovered that the 
> generated
> SWF's are at least 400Kb. This is too large. According to usability 
> rules a
> webpage should exceed 150Kb per page.
>
> We created an empty mxml-template (containing only a 
> mx:application-tag) and
> the filesize was still 263Kb. Does anybody have an idea how to reduce the
> filesize?
>
> One thing that will help is to remove all the @embed-codes and load images
> at runtime. But that's not enough to get the filesize down to 150Kb.
>
> Regards,
> Joost Nuijten
>
>
>
>
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