Webpage weight?
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Nairn, I don't build to any specifics to be honest.
I know this doesn't help answer your question, however, it does bump the thread.
To be honest if you're using AJAX that doesn't seem too large and in fact depending on how it loads will do just the same as a 30mb video file and "stream" its content when appropriate to the end-user.
If the bulk of the load is in scripts, perhaps (and I think you're doing this) have a quick lite intro page which explains the need to download everything beforehand (it'll only have to happen once), and given the size ... even at (mind-boggling that anyone even uses one anymore) 56k you should be more than fine.
To be honest, and now I know I'm really not helping.
Fuck people who aren't on broadband. And I would point to such mainstream sites as the BBC and other sites that are hit millions of times a day as industry reasons why.