I forgot this one, at some point it was discussed on the site as to what the average size of the html in a website should be? obviously this would not include content (since the site is CMS based) not sure if it would include images (maybe background images only) any help would be appreciated, im looking for an esitmate
You know what, if you organize your site and ensure that you use proper image formatting, you should be fine regardless of what you have on it (most of the time). Text won't be that much, just don't be an idiot and put 1500 pictures on a single page. Use proper thumbnails if you are going to be using a lot of images on a single page, at minimum.
Page size is not such an important factor as it used to be several years ago. However, I suppose 100kb are the acceptable limit without content images and advertisements
If you're looking for the average size of a template, with no content and no images, that's probably anywhere from 5k to 30k, with CSS, depending on how elaborate the template is. I wouldn't worry about the size of the template, though; it's the size of the entire contents of a page that you want to watch. 100k is a good upper limit for fast, clean sites.
more and more iphones and mobile devices being used, I think page size is still very important, but in a different way. My mobile optimized pages come in around 1.4KB, including content. 20% of my visitors are on a mobile device and I think it's important to give them a fast loading and easy to navigate site. I have a lo/hi choice for mobiles. A lot of people are pay-per-KB and keeping the page small helped keep my visitor's costs down. However, for desktops, my more popular pages are in the 90KB range, including content.
for sure it's depend on the SEO cause in google crawling it check the pages sizes and if it's kinda of small size pages it will support you with the fastest mode that is not allowed to anyone but the small sizes pages except that it doesn't matter
Most of the answers I'm hearing here pertain to the size of a PAGE and not a whole site. And yeah, most of us try to keep it down under 100kb. Lots of scripts will bloat your page fast, as well as the already-mentioned images. Another reason to use CSS for things Javascript is popular for if you can get away with it.
Code should be less than 5kb/page (even that is high for just the code, I would). Images it depends on the site. I mean if the site is an image site, then obviously it's going to be more than a normal site. Just optimise (try get the size down by lowering quality a bit) every image and you'll be fine.
My normal goal is to keep use page under 50kb, but with mobile anymore having a page that 100kb+ the mobile device will take a while to load the particular page. If your aiming at getting a mobile and normal pc friendly site, don't use any images and keep it to web 2.0 standards.