Lot of good points, thanks. >You don't need 2 MB worth of stock photos. Recently, there was a page on HN with an uncompressed 12 MB banner photo. That is insan

Lot of good points, thanks. >You don't need 2 MB worth of stock photos. Recently, there was a page on HN with an uncompressed 12 MB banner photo. That is insane. That seems to be a big trend nowadays and a huge pain.