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I'm wondering what the collision between fat web pages and bandwidth caps will look like. Lots of sites have untold amount of garbage on them and I'm starting

I'm wondering what the collision between fat web pages and bandwidth caps will look like. Lots of sites have untold amount of garbage on them and I'm starting to notice that many of them have automatic page reloads running. So unless you remember to close the window, it can be back there sucking up bandwidth. I also wonder what effect encryption on the pages will have. Lots of info should be cached, but most of us are behind proxy devices, how do they do with the encrypted ones? His website is a good example, it's clean, total page is 1 Mbyte of text with 102 calls from the page (for the thumbnails). It's sad to see a single graphic as a banner taking up that much space.

gotchange 11y ago
> total page is 1 Mbyte of text with 102 calls I don't think that this is commendable in any capacity. He should have put his money where his mouth is and package those thumbnails in maybe 5 - 10 sprite files and then serve them with CSS. This way he would have cut considerably on the network latency and fetched those resources faster without relying that the visitor/user would stay near above the fold region as the page is loading and not experience those empty cells waiting for the corresponding image to fill it up. His proposals like in everything with life, it's always easier said than done.