Originally posted by Joseph Miller:
The page is about 90K - all tables, data, and no images. Do you know if the widths make a significant difference for the browser?
Well, take a look at the file size of both pages--the heavier one, and the slimmed down one, and do the maths to find out how much smaller the one is than the other, and then apply that same ratio to load time.
Data is data is data. The browser will wait to display the page until the entire file is loaded. So the smaller the file, the faster it will appear. How MUCH faster is simple maths.
From
http://webdev.loyola.edu/loadtimes.html For a file size of 1000 K (or 1 MB)
14.4 K modem:13 min
28.8 K modem: 8 min
33.6 K modem: 6.5 min
56 K modem: 4.5 min
64 K ISDN: 3 min
128 K ISDN: 15.1 sec
640 K DSL: 15.1 sec
T1: 7.2 sec
All times are calculated estimates and the actual download time may vary.
To obtain the download time for any file, multiply the size of the file in MB by the estimated times
for your type of connection.
LJC
[This message has been edited by Tara O'Shea (edited August 31, 2001).]