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2009/4/6 James Morley <[log in to unmask]>: > 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?! What's right for Facebook (or Google) may not be right for you; it's importnat to define /your/ criteria for success. For example it might be that the users *perception* of load speed is more important than the space the files occupy on disk. As a side-note, most of the sites you've chosen receive frequent return traffic, and will be in the users cache. So some visitors will experience Facebook loading faster than, say, the Natural History Museum, dispite the fact that the NHM is significantly smaller. -- Danny Hope 07595 226 792 @yandle ************************************************** For mcg information and to manage your subscription to the list, visit the website at http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk **************************************************