[ 60K ] RE: [thelist] File size limit?

[John Meyer]

There is something to be said for that, yet I still would argue for 
designing lean, mean web sites for the following two reasons:

1.  It's good style (the difference between a good web site and a really 
good web site is small, but for professionals, it's there, and this is one 
of the big reasons.
2.  Not everybody has high bandwidth modems out there, especially outside 
of the United States.

At 09:54 PM 6/3/01 +0000, you wrote:
>I'm getting into this thread late and haven't read the original posting, 
>so if I'm off base, sorry.
>
>When thinking about file size it is important to consider not only the 
>general audience of visitors, but also the context of the page/file in 
>question.
>
>For example, if I have to wait 30 seconds for a home page of a site I've 
>never been to, I may say "forget it" and move on.  The reason? The site 
>hasn't convinced me it would be worth my time.
>
>However, if I'm shopping at one of my favorite sites or if I'm looking at 
>a bus route map of the city I live in and am clicking on a detail image, 
>I'm much, much more willing to wait.  Why?  Because I have a better idea 
>that the value of what I'm waiting for is worth the value of my investment 
>in time waiting for that content.
>
>Think of browsing the web as a bunch of value propositions.  Each time a 
>user clicks on a link to a site or within a site, they are determining if 
>the value provided on the page they are going to is worth their time.