Posted by Jim Moe on 01/24/07 20:14

William Hughes wrote:
> What is the consensus about an acceptable maximum limit on HTML file
> sizes or number of screens per page?
>
> I have some files at http://home.grandecom.net/~cvproj/carrier.htm
> that are approaching 175k+, or fill several screens - mostly with
> tabular data. All of these pages are subject to expansion as I develop
> the site.
>
A rule of thumb is to keep the file size to about 50KB. Although less of
an issue these days, there are still a lot of people with 10KB/sec
(56Kbit/sec) dialup connections. These means that the page would load in
about 5 seconds, assuming no other large documents like images.
If your page is mostly one giant table, an alternate method is to break
the table into a set of smaller tables. The browser can then display the
completed tables while continuing to download the rest of the page.


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