Friday, October 29, 2004

After reading Digital Web Magazine's article 'Making News with Web standards' I thought I would share some stats too. I am currently rebuilding and re-branding a site due for launch on Monday, the recently acquired site was in need of an overhaul to remove the masses of tables and I thought this would also save the company on bandwidth rather than just sticking a new logo on the front page. So here are some figures:

Original site:
Total Size: 87417 bytes

HTML: 30077 bytes
Images: 53816 bytes

Total Images: 63
Total CSS imports: 1
56K: 17.62 seconds

New site: (including a new homepage with addition of banner ad and extra form fields and a magazine cover photo).

Total Size: 76852 bytes
HTML: 12926 bytes
Images: 51741 bytes
Javascript: 1665 bytes
Total Images: 50
Total Scripts: 1
Total CSS imports: 1
56K: 15.52 seconds

Obviously with the redesign of the front page with added images I expected a size increase but the html has been reduced from 30kb to 13kb which is pretty significant!

An overall reduction of 11Kb and valid xhtml 1.0 transitional. More details monday.

Jon 10:55 AM Permalink