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Topic: 30 kb V’s 3 x 10 kb

Posted By: dj air
Subject: 30 kb V’s 3 x 10 kb
Date Posted: 12 February 2005 at 12:35pm

hi guys can you confirm that its best ot have 3 10 kb images instead of 1 30 kb image

if it makes any difference they are jpeg's

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 12 February 2005 at 3:43pm

I think, but I'm not sure and don't hold me to this, that with smaller files the HTT Protocal can use some fast thing instead of its slow thing or something. Basically small files (I think it's like 5kb) transfer faster. I don't know. Something like that.

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 12 February 2005 at 4:05pm

Surely more images mean more connections to the server resulting in a slower loading time?

Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 12 February 2005 at 5:01pm

Don't know about images but I read that CSS files should try to be kept under 5kb to allow fast transfer or something. I dont know much about it.

Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 13 February 2005 at 9:10am

It's all a matter of perception. 10 images would load about the same time, but because you see some before they load it would appear to load faster.

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