A query about Absolute Positioning

[Simon Matthews]

Hi again,

I’ve reduced the number of pictures in my homepage gallery to 3 and made them into smaller JPegs to try to reduce the size of the page. I was thinking about the recommendations you made and decided to check out a page by the very popular and successful Video Copilot. Some of their pages seem very large with lots and lots of images. I was wondering if you could tell me how large the Video Copilot tutorials page was and whether or not the page is within the suggested guidelines you mentioned as I’m not sure how to check the size of a page? Here is a link to the page:

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/

Thanks,

Simon.

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

there’s a clarification point here that i should have made – for inside pages that one would expect to have a lot of content (not all, mind you – but ones like that tutorial page), a page size rule is less important – for example, if you had a gallery page that showed off your work, i would expect going in that there would be a lot of images there. plus, i’d have to make the active decision to click a menu item to go there.

it’s the cases where you have a page such as a home page where a visitor has no choice but to go to get to your site – there you want to avoid things like music, large graphics and slow load times. that page is your first impression, and the cleaner and quicker (and better) it is, the more likely they are to stick around and go elsewhere…

does that help clear it up a bit?

sitruc

[Simon Matthews]

Hi,

Yes, thank you, that makes sense. I just found a website that diagnoses webpages and according to their diagnostic tool my homepage is now 94Kb, so that’s good. However, Video Copilot’s homepage is 718Kb, 7 times more than the recommendation! 🙂

Simon.

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ya – i will throw in the wrinkle that it’s also not a rule written in stone, but it’s one that i try to follow – especially in these days of mobile where a lot of people might be hitting your site with only a cellular connection speed, it’s nice to be nice, especially if you are a business…

just be happy – back in the days of dial-up when the ‘net was just getting started, we had to limit ourselves to 20kb at a max for all the 14.4 modems. 🙂

sitruc

[Simon Matthews]

Hi,

Well I’m glad you mentioned it because I would’ve kept on making my pages any old size otherwise, and since compressing the images on the Design page it has definitely speeded up the loading of the page, which is always a good thing! So thanks for that! 🙂

Simon.