[uf-discuss] Size considerations

[Andy Mabbett]

In message <4f560ed2c921feca9e9eccc7a79a6c94 at technorati.com>, Kevin
Marks <kmarks at technorati.com> writes

>> Other than the "20061103T213000Z" format for dates, what did you
>>change?
>
>I removed a redundant 'title'.

You removed the title from:

        <a href="../solihull/indoor.htm"
           title="Solihull Branch indoor meetings"
        >

Since it's also in the original mark-up, it also has no bearing on the
increase in file size caused by adding uFs to the page. And, while it
may near-duplicate the linking text in this specific case, that won't
always be so.

>>> gzipped I get 293 vs 451 ratio 1.51
>>
>> So - still an increase of over 50%.
>>
>> That's not insignificant.
>
>In itself, it's not significant, as it is well under a packet size, as
>I said, and so will not affect download time.

Why is packet size relevant? The page concerned has many - and some have
dozens - of table rows in similar format.

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