I plead guilty to making lots of large pages (over 300Kb even, a few
over 1MB) and each page has seven stylesheets to load, so how many were
going to St Ives? I give warnings on title rollovers and some headers
that pages are large.
Years ago I made quicktime movies to play fslow CDs and now I regret
it, having archives of tiny movies at low quality. My site is archived
by libraries and I will not make pages small just to worry about data
rates that will matter less and less in the future.
I do try and compress jpgs as much as possible and link to larger
versions of pictures, my stylesheets are tight, but a bit verbose with
rules, but no whitespace. I also have an 80Kb htaccess (and growing)
file which loads for every hit to check users IPs, to stop hotlinking
and ban known spam email address collectors.
I really don't care if users leave my site before a page loads, I take
every care to validate all pages and make them accessible, some
subjects like family history do not break up well into multiple pages.
I have novels online over 100,000 words of text on single pages and mp3
and gif animation pages over 1MB each and they seems to get many hits
which load the complete page. Hardly anyone leaves before the full page
loads
I noticed last week that google seems to not be penalising my large
pages as it did until recently, to calculate page rank google did seem
to prefer pages under 100Kb with less than 100 links, now some of my
largest pages have shot up in their google page ranking.
Tim
http://www hereticpress.com
On 21/01/2007, at 1:06 PM, Kay Smoljak wrote:
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
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