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Old Feb 24, 2001 | 5:17 am
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Originally posted by Craig6z:
Curious what kind of connection speed you are running. At work (about 150k) large and small pages load verrrrry fast.
56kbps modem. But there are still a lot of people who only have 28.8k or 33.6k modems.

The font changing code alone takes up almost 1/2 the size of the big index pages. Cutting a 100kB page to under 60kB will reduce its loading time from roughly (depending of the effect of compression) 20 secs to around 12 sec on a 33.6 connection, as well as taking lots of comms load off the server.
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