On Jun 15, 6:21 pm, "Andronicus Riyono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/15/07, Tane Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have a 'magic' figure of 500kb - this is what I aim for on 75% of my
> > sites pages. That should take someone on a 56k modem no more than 10
> > seconds to load.
>
> 500 kilobits ? which means 62.5KB?
> or it was 500KB, which will take about 75 secs on a 56k modem?
The most you will get out of a 56k modem is about 6kB/second. Throw
in a bit of network latency and typically you'll get around 3.5 to 4
kB/s. Feeding users on dial-up a 500kB web page is nasty, expect them
to not bother waiting 2 to 3 minutes for the page to finish loading.
--
Rob
