[thelist] home page max size

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 12 11:30:01 CST 2001


> From: "Alliax" <damiencola at wanadoo.fr>
> >
> > over here, our max is 24k... that would make it more than 5 times my
> > recommended maximum...
> 
> It was a maximum page weight I had in mind since 1997, not an average
> max, simply the most you would charge a page..

ew, weren't 14.4 modems all the rage in '97?

> 33.6Kbps is theorically 4.2KB/s so 70Kb would be downloaded in 17
> seconds, makes that 30 seconds in real life and it was the maximum one
> would wait for a page to display. (in my head, at that time.. now I
> have DSL 30 seconds seems a looooong time to wait)

actually, 30 seconds is *way* above the average time someone will 
wait for a page to display...

there are a bunch of studies on GUI design that showed if 
someone's computer didn't respond for 8 seconds, they'd reboot...

interestingly, that same stat made it to the web... 8 seconds for a 
page to come down, otherwise the user is gone... 24k as a *max* 
kept me close to the 8 seconds on a 28.8, but after that initial 
page, i re-used everything anyway (images, for example, so 
subsequent pages were leaner...

no, 17 seconds is way too long (30 seconds would be utterly 
unacceptable), not just IMO, but also in my user testing... focus 
group people tap out at 10 seconds -- and that's only because 
we've asked them to be patient...

and don't forget to factor in render time, as well... you may get all 
the page content in 8 seconds, but it may take another second or 
two for the browser to draw it...






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