How much should a product increase the HTML size

[runningwolf]

Hi
I am trying (again!!) to reduce my page sizes as this seems to be the only reason for my massive increase in bandwidth this month.
Now I have a lot of pages with 600k + for the HTML alone, with pics this goes to over 1 Mb whree the checker just throws its arms in the air and declares me an idiot for even asking.
Now does anyone know what each prosuct on the page should add to the size of the HTML file, mine seem to add about 11k which seemed a bit excessive to me.

Cheers
Paul
www.theorderofinitiative.co.uk

[Duncan Rounding]

Can you give an example of a page that has 600K of html alone - that seems very high.

Edit: I found this one: http://www.theorderofinitiative.co.u.../Base-Set.html will take a look at it.

[Duncan Rounding]

Have you got Compact HTML checked in Design Options - Miscellaneous - Generation Options?

The cause is the number of products on the page (220 on the page that I was looking at - at about 3.5k per product less image!) If I just wanted to view one of the products I would have to load the whole page. You could think about splitting the sections somehow - that might help.

[runningwolf]

Ahh, I unticked the compact HTML a while ago when trying to find errors (I know I didnt get far with that either )

Base set is the one I am currents beaking up, I have quite a few that need splitting up still, the jewellery section and clothing section have plenty of examples of what I am doing. I was trying to keep to 10 to 18 per page. Miniatures are harder, they are typically in sets of 60 and its useful for the customers to see the whole set in one go.

[pinbrook]

they are typically in sets of 60 and its useful for the customers to see the whole set in one go.

your pages are huge so this will eat up bandwidth. In a way by having 60 products to a page you are forcing people to download all that info. if you split it into 6 pages of 10 products people potentially will only download the pages they want. For example if someone decides after seeing the first 10 products they don't want to see any more you will have saved 5/6s of bandwidth

[runningwolf]

Thanks for the help, I agree I have lots of page breaking up to get done still.

One day I guess I will be able to sit back and say "right thats got the web site finished" but I dont think its going to be any time soon

[Duncan Rounding]

Thanks for the help, I agree I have lots of page breaking up to get done still.

One day I guess I will be able to sit back and say "right thats got the web site finished" but I dont think its going to be any time soon

I think you included the word 'soon' by mistake.

[pinbrook]

"right thats got the web site finished"

In reality a website is never finished.... you will always be changing products, changing prices, updating shiping costs, fiddling with bestseller lists, also boughts, related products, duplicates

And just when you are getting bored with it all you'll decide to change the design as your design is starting to look dated....