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Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-the-freshmen-fifteen dept.

Andy King writes "Within the last five years, the size of the average web page has more than tripled, and the number of external objects has nearly doubled. While broadband users have experienced somewhat faster response times, narrowband users have been left behind." The article breaks down a number of changes besides just page size, including image types and video duration.

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  1. Re:Times change by Spiked_Three · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Those people in rural area's still have the ability to get high speed internet, such as satellite, direct line of site towers, cellular or even DSL."

    People who don't have to deal with are very misinformed about what is available. There is no cellular or towers available. DSL isn't even remotely feasable. And sattelite is so over sold by the 2 monopolies that the speed is OFTEN less than the 24.4 tops dial up that is available from 2 carriers.

    Yes, were I live sucks big time. I made the mistake of thinking coverage would eventually be available, but its not. Around here (southern VA, east TN) a $50 dollar bribe to a cop and you can still get away with murder. It's the old west. I dont see things changing any time soon.

    But no, I don't expect anyone to do anything to help poor old me out. But just don't go around thinking I have options available, I don't.

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  2. Re:While we're at it... by jalefkowit · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or HTML spec is upgraded so that we can specify image size in % as well as pixels similar to a table.

    Um, that's in the spec already. Both the "height" and "width" attributes for the IMG tag can be defined as percentages.

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