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In 2005 I had to fill in a form to request a page size exception for our election results map on the BBC News site. The page weight was going to be just a littl
by tomgp 6y ago
In 2005 I had to fill in a form to request a page size exception for our election results map on the BBC News site. The page weight was going to be just a little under 400kb. At the time the size considered acceptable for the whole page (images and all) was 75kb.
- scrooched_moose 6y agokb or kB? Assuming kB and dialup, which was 83% of the US at the time (easiest stat to quickly find), that was a difference of about 23s vs 121s load time. Edit: Seems like the UK would have been about 50/50 around that time according to this article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/broadband-overtakes-dial-up-as-way-of-connecting-to-the-internet-492595.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/broadband-o...
- folmar 6y agoAs far as my math goes 75k(b/B) on dialup (usual speed for that time is 56.6k) is either 1.3s or 10.6s. Either being acceptable at the time since browser loaded text first and rendered images when they came.
- scrooched_moose 6y agoIn theory yeah. In practice, 32 was about the best I ever managed and 24-26 was typical.
- tomgp 6y agoYes, sorry, kB. If I recall correctly our argument was that because after the initial load we only needed to poll occasionally for small data updates users would probably save time/ bandwidth overall (a familiar argument for the present day SPA advocates)