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Re: [OM] (OM) Web-page sizes and download times

Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) Web-page sizes and download times
From: Martyn Smoothy <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 12:21:40 +0100
Brian,

Reckon there may be something wrong with your connection. Just tried all 
3 examples here & they all loaded in a few seconds (on a standard ADSL 
line).

No website which takes 2 minutes to load is going to get any traffic...

Martyn




Brian Swale wrote:
> Out of curiosity, I checked the file sizes of a few notable and one less 
> notable web-site(s).  Mine being the latter.
>
> Facebook took 512,882 bytes to get to the point of presenting the full login 
> screen.  But it took at least 2 minutes to get there; probably more.  I think 
> the time was due to the complexity of the browser having to de-code very 
> involved javascript.
>
> >From login to the complete loading of my 'Home' page, the total was 
> 1,019,371 bytes. Lots more javascript resulted in about another 2+ minutes.
>
> Ken's Zone 10 front page used up 828,008 bytes in its present form with 2 
> biggish images, and it took maybe less than 2 minutes.
>
> My own pages, the front page plus the next step the gallery page, used the 
> surprising total of 425,698 bytes. I had no idea I had loaded that many to 
> get 
> there.  And I have organised things so that wherever possible, images get 
> re-used out of cache rather than needing to be downloaded more than once. 
> These two pages were faster than any of the others by two orders of 
> magnitude, probably due to the code being very simple for the browser to 
> interpret.
> .........      ..................  !!
> Brian Swale. 
>   

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