Samuel Richardson wrote:
What is considered an acceptable total page size for the web these days? Clearly the smaller the better but I've put together a fairly graphic heavy travel website with a homepage size of about 300k. With GZIP switched on in the server I imagine that this will be reduced fairly substantially (we have some huge stylesheets that will compress well).
I remember reading something recently (and unfortunately I can't remember where) that users with broadband are getting used to everything loading pretty much instantaneously, so if your site is slow or something doesn't work when they click, they no longer blame themselves or their bad connection, they (correctly) identify your site as the cause of the problem. So modem users will say "oh, I have such a slow connection" but broadband users will say "THIS SITE is terrible and slow!". I use the web site optimization tool at http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ to give me an idea of load times. I think in a lot of cases their listed recommendations are too low, but the tool provides a useful benchmark. -- Kay Smoljak business: www.cleverstarfish.com standards: kay.zombiecoder.com coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com personal: goatlady.wordpress.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
