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To my suprise the darn program says it can still almost half my file size
So I go to <snip> the free speed analysis tool to test the company's site, <snip>. It page size itself is 3k (index.php only), all is like 60k with images.
I copy the source code with view source in IE and Firefox and save as a text file and it says the thing is 10k+ in filesize. I also tried the save as and I can't get it to say the file is 3k as it did with the site speed test.
Could someone help explain how this works? Could most pages codes be riddled with superfluous characters and characters we can't edit without an evil uber program? I don't understand what they do, even if you delete all the new lines I can only shave off 2K.
Try downloading their source code and tell me if you get the same problem =/.
[edited by: trillianjedi at 7:00 pm (utc) on May 30, 2005]
[edit reason] Please see TOS #13, thanks. [/edit]
Secondly, there are numerous ways that size may be shaved.
- There's no need to have any linebreaks, tabs, or more than one space in a row
- Using relative URLs wherever possible
- Using compression when you send the page to the user
The tabs and new lines were gone already when I tried to optimize but I still couldn't get it that file size. How would they compress a page then send it to a user for them to uncompress?
Their site used relative urls but when I saved it it still was way more bloated.
