Posted by Hywel Jenkins on 08/17/05 22:24

In article <3mh9d3F15n88jU1@individual.net>, invalid@domain.invalid
says...
> Once upon a time *Michael Winter* wrote:
>
> > On 17/08/2005 16:57, Arne wrote:
> >
> >> Once upon a time *Barbara de Zoete* wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >>> 1. It is nearly a 100kB whithout the external images that is. Just
> >>> the text and markup. That is waaaaaayy too much, believe me. Anyone
> >>> on dial-up could have told you so.
> >
> > As a dial-up user, I'd say that 100kB is fine, but that would be
> > everything, including images. As it is, the site is exceeding 200kB. Of
> > course, that's only if the document renders incrementally. Sitting
> > there, seeing only the start of a header for thirty seconds isn't
> > acceptable to me.
> >
> >> Where do you see those 100kB for text and markup? I see only 10,49kB
> >> (10741 bytes) [...]
> >
> > Mozilla isn't reporting the size correctly. Copy the source code, save
> > it, then look at the file size. It's 90kB.
> >
>
> You are absolutely right! Strange, not even the Web Page Analyzer
> report correctly and Mozilla report the same size as WPA. What's
> causing this?

The HTML is served up in compressed form.

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Hywel
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