How much does your home page weigh?

[Brian Kelly]

> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:08:23 -0400
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> Slim Down That Homepage
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> Too many sites are weighted down by graphics and Flash
> animations. Here's why and what to do about it. By Dylan 
> Tweney, July 13, 2001
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> http://www.ecompany.com/articles/web/0,1653,16483,FF.html
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> Shirl Kennedy
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A survey of the size of UK University home pages is available at 
<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue28/web-watch/>.

The survey used Netmechanic and Booby to report on the size of the pages
- and discovered inconsistencies between the two services due to
differences in processing (e.g. use of the robot exclusion protocol,
measuring external files, splash screens, etc.)

Is anyone aware of similar work for US University pages?

Brian

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Brian Kelly
UK Web Focus
UKOLN
University of Bath 
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Email: B.Kelly at ukoln.ac.uk
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