[thelist] PAGE OPTIMIZATION: source readability v. download weight

[Chris W. Parker]

> CWP> i was toying with making my pages as small as possible
> and found that on
> CWP> some of the longer pages i can take off about 10k of
> space characters
> CWP> from the formatting of the code.
>
> wouldn't this sort of thing be compressed very easily by the average
> modem??  while your page weight will drop, would the download
> time drop
> by as much??

if that's true then i'd be glad to stick with what i've got. however, if
i'm downloading a page that is 50k because of the spacing characters
instead of 40k, wouldn't 10k make a difference to someone on a slow
connection?

does it (browser/modem/server/etc.) really compress repetitive
characters?



chris.