D_Blackwell - 4:37 am on Feb 18, 2009 (gmt 0)

8kb is nothing IMO.

I also have a rocket-sled connection so have to be careful about being minimally considerate to those who don't.

I come from the camp that every byte should be optimized to the nth degree without any loss in quality.

I've left this camp entirely and am not shy about much larger than average pages. The dialup user is mostly not a factor for our considerations.

However, the point about mobile should be taken very seriously. The jury is still out (for me) on how quickly as well as how important this will wind up being; a lot can change in a hurry. Tomorrow's killer app may not make it out of the gate today. However, I have been investing a lot of time in mobile optimization. Mostly by serving up vastly different stylesheets and serving minimum images, not offering the high-res stuff that I otherwise make available - a very heavy hand at stripping the sites down. Sometimes it's easier to just do an entirely different website and keep it super-streamlined for updating, with custom navigation to make moving around fast and easy.

Like pageoneresults, if a page takes time to load on my connection they have got some serious problems; images, JavaScripts for everything under the sun, who knows what all might be going on.