[found via a whole lot of sources I guess, Techmeme , Slashdot , and so on, original at link ] While I guess it is fair to say I would not be known for generally having a strong focus in the area of UI/Page side of things (oppps hope the current crew is not watching ;) ). I found this article on the Average Web page size tripling on the top 1000 Web sites to be very interesting, as I have in the past spent quite a bit of time in this space in the distance past (or it feels like the distance past now :) ) The report touches a lot of interesting points about Web2.0, trends in Web pages and all of it is good stuff, but I think it compressed a lot of important aspects that need to be highlighted - that perhaps of all places is best highlighted by a post on valleywag, "Ignoring customers still using modems is officially all the rage. Usability and accessibility guru Jakob Nielsen to shake fist at you all." I really like the fact that a report like this has appeared, as I think it highlights very succinctly the technical/transmission realities of how Web2.0/et.al. is having on end user experiences both in a positive and negative sense. To even emphasise this point, I believe that in the valley a lot of companies like Yahoo, are getting folks to focus on the "transmission" aspects of a UI/UX and in the case of Yahoo have led to the birth of Y!Slow etc... There is some video's on the Yahoo! developer network from the Director responsible for this team, sorry I don't have a link :( Off the top of my head, I reckon what would have been nice to have in the report would have been the following: use of sub domains the issue of location and speed of light, i.e. the value proposition of a Global CDN HTTP protocol versions, pipelining, browser versions/differences and so on... CSS and JavaScript placement in HTML etc.... and many of the recommendations that get highlighted from Y!Slow as I recall. (plus I would have a few, which I will mention below and in a follow up post) I guess overall, one of my initial thoughts and critiques of the article is that it could have given some link love to the all too few links, presentations and tools that help alleviate many of the concerns the article raises about the "un-optimised" transmission costs of an ever increasing number of embedded objects in a Web page that ultimately better than we have in the past (on average). Yeah I could link to YSlow, but that would not be no fun :) YSlow is the best and true place to start, as what I
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