[thelist] page weight

[Susan Payne]

Do you have a standard for the total page weight for your sites? I have
a graphic designer who's giving me image files that are way too large.
My previous employer said no bigger than what would take more than 10
secs to download over a 56k. I think that's not reasonable and am not
really designing for  dial up. Slow public wi-fi, yes.  

 

Any standards/sources that can back me up as to why a total page size of
half a MB is too much would be appreciated.

 

Susan Payne