[thelist] accepted page weight

[Matt Warden]

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Bob Meetin wrote:
> Generally speaking, what is accepted page weight in kilobytes?  Fast 
> broadband connections make 130k load reasonably fast, but there are 
> still lots of 56k modem folks out there (I think).  It's a real push to 
> keep pages below 75k given a couple graphics or perhaps some javascript.

You'll hate this answer, but it depends. Basically you want to keep it
as small as possible.

But I just finished a contract with a client on Friday where my
JavaScript was 65k *minified* (somewhere around 103k before
minification). Obviously it was a fat-client app.

The point is, especially now when a page does not necessarily represent
a single application state, it really depends. If your page has a total
weight of 175k and loads slowly over slower connections, but then the
user doesn't ever have to load anything again except data, then it might
be great. But if your user is loading 175k every time the app state
changes, then there's probably a problem.

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Matt Warden
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com


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