Comments on: Average New Zealand home page size is 304.9K

By: ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » NZ Govt Homepage web performance summary

Tue, 20 May 2008 09:58:41 +0000

[...] Average NZ homepage size is 304.9K [...]

By: john

john — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:03:55 +0000

Berend, The trade off is negligible . CPU load is not a problem. and IE cache bugs where for one version of IE6 and that can be managed with intelligent webserver configuration.

NZ’s biggest website Trade Me has been running web compression since 2003. It make a huge difference to the performance of the page.

By: Berend de Boer

Berend de Boer — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:26:34 +0000

Harvey, because of the additional load put on server/client. And the IE cache bugs. I’m unsure about the trade off.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:56 +0000

GZipping isn’t rocket science. I’m not sure why most websites haven’t embraced it with open arms, especially when bandwidth usage is significant as with many of these sites.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:00:46 +0000

NZCity’s 16 seconds is pretty good then, quicker than the number 1 page, zoomin.co.nz – and more than twice as fast as Yahoo NZ’s 40 secs – & has room to improve

By: john

john — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:42:06 +0000

The nzcity page was middle of the pack in terms of the ratings.

YSlow rating of 50
No Gzip compression
Homepage size of 97.3
Javascript files 8
CSS Files 4
Estimated 16.22 secs download time on Modem

They could improve their rating with use of HTTP compression and reducing the number of scripts that they use

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:26:54 +0000

Hi guys, just reading an article on Computerworld ‘ProjectX blog names ‘NZ homepage hall of shame’”

Was NZCity (http://home.nzcity.co.nz) measured? How did it fare? – I reckon it’s a pretty fast home page

By: ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » NZ Average homepage size under global average

Wed, 14 May 2008 02:30:40 +0000

[...] I’ve just found this article about global pages sizes, its confirms some of the figures that I posted about the average size of homepages in New Zealand. [...]

By: David Jones

David Jones — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:18:39 +0000

That is disgraceful! Stuff.co.nz will be up there… their home page is huge.

By: Ed Corkery

Ed Corkery — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:05:43 +0000

Lucky font-size doesn’t impact page loading times.

Maybe Rankr could include a few details, such as front-page size?