Hello The total page size (inc images) on http://www.techneek.co.uk/reviews/antec-p150/24.html is 161.6 kilobytes. The reccomended total is 100 kb iirc. However is that reccomended total including images? Without images or anything (just the page itself) its approx 15kB.
Considering the large number of people using dialup, a max size of 30kB[1], including all images and other auxiliary files, should be your target value. Reduce the size and quality of those 25kB image files. Allow your visitor a link to the larger pic and perhaps additional detail about what they're looking at. Your client will be saved bandwidth, and the visitor will be spared excessive download times. cheers, gary [1] That's still an 8–10 sec. download time; well beyond the attention span of the MTV generation. Mine, too, for all that.
Compress the output! Add this right at the start before anything is beeing sent to the user: <? ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); PHP: Click on ob_start to see its definition in the php manual See also : http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ob-gzhandler.php
You are right in saying that pages should be as small as possible but for detailed product reviews like this you should never hold back on images or quality just to keep the page size down. Your visitors can still read the article even if the images are still loading so I don't think there is a problem. The only solution would be to thumbnail the images if you really want to.