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- lukus_W0
The thing that's important, is the time it takes before the user can start interacting with the site. You can always use techniques like lazy-loading, to improve responsiveness.
- Hombre_Lobo0
this thread is 400kb btw, and it loads pretty dam fast.
- acescence0
you should keep initial page load of a reasonable size so people see things immediately, but size of subsequent content isn't as important. if you have lots of images that need to load right away, use javascript lazy / delayed loading
- Hombre_Lobo0
^yeh i go for 8.
For viewing purposes i cant see a difference in saving as 12 or 8.
8 being a lot smaller though. obviously 12 would contain more info for editing.the whole site? depends on the audience, but we today's internet i think 500kb is acceptable.
- dibec0
I do 7 (save as option in photoshop). My images are up to 1920 wide. I am one of those ... Go Big or Go Home guys.
- inteliboy
so, years ago I was taught to keep an entire site under 100kb... though these days that's obviously pretty out of date.
Anyway - for say a gallery/folio, what would you say is a comfortable image file size for a photo? Am thinking maybe 200kb? But then still that's a pretty small and compressed jpg...