File Sizes on the Mac

[Chiara Fox]

Hello Everyone-

I was going though the files on my Institute's Website to determine 
which ones need to be optimized.  My goal is to get the files down to 
Jakob Nielsen's 36k in total (meaning HTML plus images).

I was overwhelmed as I went through the Finder looking at the sizes 
because most of the .html files are already 32k or bigger.  However, 
if I look at the same file in Fetch, GoLive, or even via my server 
logs, the size is only around 10k.

I seem to remember hearing that the Mac Finder "lies" about the true 
file size.  Does anyone know if this is true?  Do you know what size 
I should believe?  If the file is really only 10k, I don't have to 
worry.  But if it's 32k I have a lot of work to do.

Thanks for your help!

-Chiara Fox
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