[thelist] Page weight -- good examples of "light" sites?
ben morrison
morrison.ben at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 04:53:32 CDT 2008
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:49 AM, David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
> Hi Barry,
> >> and www.sixapart.com (62K)
> >
> > Are you counting all the associated 'first visit' files like CSS and JS?
>
> I wasn't doing the counting at all, actually :-) I let Firebug's "net" tab
> add it up for me :-)
DId you empty your cache first? says 106kb for me....
> > How about transfer compression? That could result in a larger site
> > loading faster than a smaller site (and could potentially cause the
> > 62K/112K
> > disparity I see). Just a thought that its possibly not so clear.
>
> Yup that was it. They all have Content-Encoding: gzip headers. guess
> that's why their css files are only 200 - 400 *bytes* :-)
Have you looked at YSLOW as well?
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
ben
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