A bit of a 'how long is a piece of string' question, but does anyone have any evidence based figures of optimal and maximum page weights? This can be taken in the context of having a text-only/low graphics version available.
Doing some quick & dirty analysis (and I hope my figures are accurate!), here are a few indicative examples inside and outside our sector (home pages, viewed in Firefox, with Javascript, Flash etc all enabled):
Guardian - 1204KB
Times Online - 663KB
BBC Home - 612KB
BBC News - 676KB
Natural History Museum - 217KB
National Maritime Museum - 386KB
Zoological Society London - 1228KB
Historic Royal Palaces - 693KB
Royal Opera House - 622KB
Tate - 698KB
Sky - 1118KB
Ocado - 561KB
Tescos - 188KB
eBay - 546KB
Facebook (logged in) - 1459KB
Flickr (logged in) - 768KB
I confess I was rather surprised by some of these figures, but am I just behind the times?!
Thanks, James
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