I agree to a point - I think it's maybe thought about a bit more by those who were building sites when a 1mb page meant a 5 minute download. For those that grew

I agree to a point - I think it's maybe thought about a bit more by those who were building sites when a 1mb page meant a 5 minute download. For those that grew up taking high speed Internet for granted it's thought about a lot less. That said, when the only way to get the design to work is using alpha transparency, and you know you need a massive 24bit PNG you're caught between a rock and a hard place. Especially when you then have to think about creating the same image at double size to serve to retina displays (because the client asks "why is it fuzzy on my ipad/mac/phone?") - page sizes start to get out of control.