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 Posted by andrew on 11/27/07 09:09 
On 2007-11-27, Mika <anon@anon.com> wrote: 
 
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> The thing is, to load the page fully and see the streetscape is under 300K  
> (not 6MB as someone reported).  If someone has trouble downloading 300K via  
> broadband, and it is not down to our servers or page size, then it is down  
> to the route their hops take to get to and from us. 
 
Using the 'Information -- Document Size' of the web developer tool bar 
the following page: 
 
http://www.superhighstreet.com/George-Street-Richmond/index.shtml 
 
weighed in at an extraordinary: 
 
Total	1902 KB (2089 KB uncompressed) 
 
and loaded very slowly and sluggishly on Firefox. I have read the 
discussion about broadband / traceroute / bandwidth / geographical 
locality but surely if you are publishing on the /internet/ you are 
obligated to serve content that is useful to /all/ possible readers of 
your site? 
 
Certainly if you have some sort of closed system such as an intranet 
you could do as you please but the Internet implies a world market for 
your site with all the problems of variable access, lack of plugins, 
different browsers, operating systems etc. 
 
           Andrew 
 
 
--  
Now I can praise him, now that I can stand by to mourn 
and speak before this web that killed my father; yet 
I grieve for the thing done, the death, and all our race. 
I have won; but my victory is soiled, and has no pride.
 
  
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