Page Size

How does Yahoo keep it down to 40K

[NJLawman]

Like a good web guy, I have been reading everything on this forum. Recently, I've gone on a mission to reduce my page sizes.

My index page is down to 31K. To accomplish that, I removed just about every picture and image.

The main Yahoo page goes between 35k and 40k. On that page they have numerous photos and images. How in God's name can they manage that?

Thanks.

[piskie]

Page size for indexing purpose (particularly the 40k or 100k etc ceilings) applies to the HTML file only and does not take into account visual/media content.

[BwanaZulia]

A few things they use:

- redirects for hrefs (/rr/dd/)
- removing all white space
- removing all quotes on images, etc.

BZ

[NJLawman]

Hey,

What do you mean "removing all white space?" How do you do that,and what does it accomplish?

Thanks.

[synthium]

Removal of non-essential whitespace cuts down on processing time per read of a full page of code. Hence, the page may be considered a slighty faster load and perhaps rated marginally higher on yahoo. The truth is anyone's guess without knowing their exact methods.

I would love to hear more on this myself.
=)

[amznVibe]

99% of modern browsers support gzip - if you are on an apache server just install mod_gzip and you are all set - a 40k page can become 10k with trivial cpu load