I'm designing my first site and having a problem with what appears to be bloated pages. My pages are averaging about 80k and I've read conflicting things. Most of the things I've read say to try to keep it under or around 50k but I've also seen it written that 100k is ok. I'm really not sure what to aim for(?)
My site is going to be a directory and it appears my problem is the links to other sites. 70 links came out to be 17k, This seems excessive to me but I don't know what to compare it with. Would using CSS cut down on the page size significantly?
My business site is gonna turn out to be about 20 - 40k. I have used a fair few graphics in the design but have compressed them well. Try and use good compressing programs for graphics such as Fireworks or Photoshop.
17k for links? That seems excessive. Just make them text links and give them CSS rollovers.
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The only thing about CSS rollovers is that IE doesn't support them unless links. But anything else isn't supported and the CSS file can get massive if you have 70 links all with different rollovers, though it should be less than using JS.
Also I think that PingSmasher is a good .png compressor.
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