Posted by andrew on 11/27/07 09:09

On 2007-11-27, Mika <anon@anon.com> wrote:

[...]

> 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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