I’ve been under the impression that my blog is flat and slow. I took a look at a few other blogs and found One blog to be 390KB, another was 184KB, and mine was 450KB. (To get these figures I added the web page, the images, and the JavaScript includes. I did not add the CSS.)

So the question is; “how big is too big ?”

This is actually an important question. I find more and more web solutions are bloated. I think website should still work over dial-up. My blog’s home page would take nearly 2 minutes to download over a 28.8 modem. That’s too long. I can turn off some of the JavaScript and save 25KB. That’s not much better. If the user turned off images - I tend to post with pictures - the page would drop to 155KB or about 40 seconds. That’s acceptable but then the user lost the some of the visual content.

I’m going to enable WordPress’s cache feature. I’ll also investigate GZip compression on the server-to-browser transfers.

So back to the question above - “how big is too big ?” What do you feel is the upper limit of a typical blog page - 50KB, 150KB, 300KB, 500KB, more ?

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