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From: "John Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [WSG] CSS - How the max size of a .css file
> I just tossed my site through that web optimization service
> (http://www.webs
John Wells wrote:
Which begs the question, when a stylesheet is loaded up by a browser,
will that browser automatically attempt to load every referenced
image, regardless of it being called by the HTML file?
This question's come up before - and the answer is... (of course) it
varies from browser
I just tossed my site through that web optimization service
(http://www.websiteoptimization.com/), and it returned a very peculiar
review: it counted and weighed every single image being pointed to from
my CSS file, even though the HTML page that I had it review only used a
fraction of them.
W
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:36:20 -0200, Genau Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to know, how is the max size of a .css file for a website with
> a plenty of functionalities and different style pages.
Try running a few sites through
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ -
I have yet to crack 10K for a css
Average around 6-8K (and we use CSS for nearly everything)
So unless I'm missing something, 30K seems really big.
dave rayner
freshweb
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Genau,
I would say that the old rule of thumb still applies... that to be
polite to all users of your site, including those on slower dial-up
connections, your *total* data size for a page (css + html + images)
should be no larger than 30KB.
You need to take into account, too, the images called
Genau Junior wrote:
I would like to know, how is the max size of a .css file for a website...
30kb , for example, is a accetable css file size?
While I don't have a technical answer to your question, I suspect it
will vary from one browser to the next. From a practical standpoint,
however, if y
