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i hear you laughing, saying "yeh, too big is right, dope!"
i have 200k in mind for the pages, the rule is what- 100k, thats 20 pages, compaired to my 6 pages now, seems crazy.
heres the pages im working on:
www.imosh.com/NECKLACES.htm - www.imosh.com/NECKLACES6.htm
(at the moment, the above pages are not 2,000k, but i just added more
items, and i haven't uploaded them yet)
-- is it really that bad to have massive pages?
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Depends.
You may loose many dial-up/slow connection potential buyers.
This will give you an idea of your load results for page #1 you indicate - necklaces:
http://r.netmechanic.com/toolbox/loa...&s=NetMechanic
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FWIW - Only about 15% of our visitors are on dial-up, anyhow.
Cheers
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Seems I read somewhere that Google spider only reads first 100k on one page. Not real sure about this.
Mike
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i think its 100 links for spiders, spiders don't care about pictures.
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I'm on DSL, and the pages loaded quickly.
If you're concerned about losing buyers, why not make more (smaller) pages than just a few (larger) pages?
Having a few extra (optimized) pages WON'T hurt your site, and may in fact help it - with the added benefit of 'slow loaders' may be sticking around a bit for the entire page to load.
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I'm on DSL too, the pages didn't take too long for me. A bit of hesitation on some of the pics, but not enough that I wouldn't have waited the couple of seconds. But the scroll was pretty long, especially if you're still going to be adding more to it.
I would consider adding a couple of pages to make them shorter.
Kathleen, cool link!
Debra
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finished, ten pages, 175k - 225k per page.
http://www.imosh.com/NECKLACES.htm
i like what i did, the navigation from 1-10 took some thinking, but
i think it looks/works good.
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imosh, great job. The scrolling is a lot better and not too long at all, and I love the navigation bars on the top AND the bottom.
Debra