RE: SSI calls and Loading time

Good Evening Virginia (at least, it is evening where I am right now)--

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I have a site where I call several parts of the pages via SSI(menu
items
and the like) and I was wondering if having a lot of these makes a
page
load slower than if the stuff is hard coded into the page.
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Pages WILL take longer to load but this is more than compensated IMHO
by the ability to maintain consistency across pages and make site-wide
updates by changing a single file. Depending on the volume of data in
the SSI and the number of SSI's in a file, changing to hard coding may
decrease loadtime only slightly.

So, how do you define "a lot" of SSI material? What does the overall
page size end up being once it is parsed on a browser? Is the overall
load time acceptable for your market?

HTH
kali
kaliajer(at)mail.com
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