Topic: Page sizes

[Perspective]

i was going to post a question about how big a typical web page should be, but I just came accross this http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/average-web-page/

I want to break up a huge data set into "page sized" (or reasonably sized) chunks to be retrieved as necessary.

damn, when did pages get so big, I guess it's all the graphics.

[hans]

And CSS and Javascript. All the Javascript libraries can be a killer too.

I watched a good video on the Google GWT and it talked about optimization steps like creating one big image and clipping it instead of making multiple image requests. And collapsing all Javascript and stuff into one file. Basically the fewer http calls the better even if they are for slightly larger files.