Estimating website space requirements

[Antonio]

Hi! May be a stupid question but I couldn't find it the forum. Is there a
rule of thumb on file size of a webpage? Of course I know it will really
depend a lot on how much graphics, flash animation and other stuff you put in
but it would be good to know in order to manage the number of pages to be
built.

Thanks.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Hi! May be a stupid question but I couldn't find it the forum. Is there a
rule of thumb on file size of a webpage?

Yeah... big ones are bigger than small ones.

You're right. It WAS a stupid question. One of the stupidest I've
seen.

 

[Charles W Davis]

A couple of things come to mind. Certainly one should keep the size of a
page small for download speed. One of my sites has pages ranging from 13KB
to 102KB. The site has 16 pages. The size on the server is 73MB. A second
site had a range of 12KB to 67KB. The site has 25 pages. The size on the
server is 117.6MB.

The main idea of a web site is to provide information to your viewers. If
the information is improtant, put it on the site! Depending on your host,
you will probably be many months before you reach a limit without paying
extra.

 

[Teriel9]

Uncle Grumpy
Did you know?
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit!!!

 

[Mike Koewler]

Charles,

Huh? Are you sure you are reading the stats correctly? I have 144 pages
with 142 images and the file size on the server is 5.5 megs. Another
site has 118 pages (lots of them multipage pdf files and 265 images for
a total of 21 megs.

If I add in the 35 sermons (mp3 or swf) then it does add 171 megs, but
each sermon is at least 3 megs and a couple are 7 megs.

Unless you are putting large flash files on each page, I can't see a web
page averaging 5 megs of space.

Mike

 

[Mike Koewler]

Grumpy,

Not NEAR as stupid as your response. I'm wondering if you stayed up all
night long just to come with such sage words. Hopefully, it didn't
overtax your few brain cells.

I bet you are a real hit at family reunions. "Hey, look, it's Uncle
Grumpy's car. Let's stuff potatoes up his muffler and scatter large
thumb tacks under his tires."

Mike

 

[Mike Koewler]

Antonio,

Bookmark this page: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

Go to it and enter your website. Read the report. Keep in mind that this
info provided is more important for the Home Page - if people click on a
link from it, it means they are interested. No, you cannot make the
linked page so huge it takes too long to load, but you can exceed the
suggested limits by a bit.

Mike

 

[Charles W Davis]

Mike the stats are correct. There are 7 years worth of pdf newsletters of 30
to 45 pages. I did not count each newsletter as a page, only the html pages.
http://www.myscacc.org/newsletters.htm

 

[Mike Koewler]

Charles,

Ah, the devils are in the details. This makes more sense. Don't ya think
you should have mentioned this in your original post? The way you made
it sound was that 25 pages takes up 117 megs of space.

Mike

 

[JoAnn Paules]

I only keep one year's worth of newsletter (4 issues) available on our site.
I have a note that tells everyone that the rest are available upon request.
In that case, I can go back 5 years.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

 

[Charles W Davis]

On that site, I do as the Club's Board of Directors say. When we exceeded
the 100MB that we were paying for, the hosting company donated an additional
100MB because we were a club. It has paid them many dividends with new
business.

I only keep one year's worth of newsletter (4 issues) available on our
site. I have a note that tells everyone that the rest are available upon
request. In that case, I can go back 5 years.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

Mike the stats are correct. There are 7 years worth of pdf newsletters of
30 to 45 pages. I did not count each newsletter as a page, only the html
pages. http://www.myscacc.org/newsletters.htm

 

[Charles W Davis]

Mike,

Maybe I was just illustrating that there isn't much to be gained in
Estimating web space requirements. The important aspect is the size of
individual pages.

 

[Teriel9]

Ok Mike,
Try This
If of aid thou cannot be
Keep thy comments unto thee