[thelist] Page weight -- good examples of "light" sites?
David Kaufman
david at gigawatt.com
Thu Mar 27 03:32:04 CDT 2008
Hi Clive,
"Clive R Sweeney" <clive at designshift.com> asked:
> It seems the typical home page for a website nowadays
> weighs in at about 500KB or more (according to a quick
> sampling I just did. We used to aim for 50-60kb total
> for a web page. Are there any important (i.e. high
> profile) sites now that could still fit that guideline?
At the risk of reiterating the obvious... www.google.com (3K)
www.37signals.com (17K)
and its offshoots:
www.BasecampHQ.com (23K)
www.campfirenow.com (couldnt find a page there > 50k!)
Not to mention www.alistapart.com (22K of gorgeous design goodness)
And of course, our own: www.evolt.org (61K)
Then there's www.pbs.org (51K)
and www.sixapart.com (62K)
and oh yeah: my employer: www.erlbaum.net (14K!)
hth,
-dave
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