[uf-discuss] Size considerations

[Kevin Marks]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:

> In message <d72d821e2802395b5eab82d0a1fe9802 at technorati.com>, Kevin
> Marks <kmarks at technorati.com> writes
>
>> using more compact forms of the mf markup I get
>
> Other than the "20061103T213000Z" format for dates, what did you 
> change?

I removed a redundant 'title'.

>> 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.

A useful exercise would be to compare the whole page before and after 
adding microformats, not just the fragment that changed.