Re: [MACCAWS] Yahoo! Makeover

kevin c smith <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:53:37 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.vkit
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On Saturday, September 28, 2002, <[email protected]> wrote:

>do you have any info like file size differences?

Hardly scientific, but yes. Their current front page is 32985 bytes, while mine
is 17844, plus another 5392 in the (cacheable) linked style sheet. This works
out to a net savings of 9749 bytes (29%) on the initial page load, and 15141
(46%) for subsequent hits.

Oh, did I mention that "the Yahoo! global network of properties increased to an
average of 1.62 billion page views per day as of December 2001"?

    <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/pr/faq.html#yusq>

Staggering.

BTW, I went ahead & changed the header per Tom's request and implemented the
inline lists,  which sorta wrecked the layout in Netscape 4. To compensate
somewhat, I added list-style-type:none;color:#bbb to the UL, which causes NN4 to
display grey ?'s instead of black bullets. Not as pretty, but it's still usable.

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kevin c smith
http://centricle.com