Re: Download time

by Moe Rubenzahl <moe(at)maxim-ic.com>

Date:	Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:25:29 -0700
To:	"Carol Parent" <cbwd(at)means.net>, <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
References:	hwg 700r
	todo: View Thread, Original

>I know from all that I have read they do not recommend the homepage taking
>longer than 10secs to load completely. Size of page should not exceed
>35kb's.  Please let me know anyone if these figures are incorrect.   I took
>them right out of a Web Usability book.

There is nothing etched in stone; and it depends some on the intended 
audience and what the site is intended to achieve. But those happen 
to be very close to the rules I use.

By the way: Guess what Adobe's home page is? Oh, about 150K, or 51 
seconds. Oink.

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