Home Events! Entrance Everyone Wiki Search Login Register

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register. - Thinking of joining the forum??
October 11, 2024 - @498.13 (what is this?)
Forum activity rating: Three Stars Posts: 28/1k.beats Unread Topics | Unread Replies | Own Posts | Own Topics | Random Topic | Recent Posts
News: :eyes: ~ Inconvenience is counterculture ~ :eyes:

+  MelonLand Forum
|-+  World Wild Web
| |-+  ✁ ∙ Web Crafting
| | |-+  Website size


« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 5 Print
Author Topic: Website size  (Read 8919 times)
Roly
Newbie
*


I am Roly (A.K.A Chartreuse)

⛺︎ My Room

View Profile

First 1000 Members!OG! Joined 2021!
« on: November 17, 2021 @631.94 »

My website is 21KB large, and I try to keep it small as possible. How small are your websites, and do you believe that making your website small in file size is worth it? :dunno:
Logged

WOAH COOL WEBSITE AND ITS UNDER 50KB TOO?! SEXY!
Melooon
Hero Member ⚓︎
*****


So many stars!

⛺︎ My Room
SpaceHey: Friend Me!
StatusCafe: melon
iMood: Melonking
Itch.io: My Games

View Profile WWW

Thanks for being rad!a puppy for your travelsAlways My PalFirst 1000 Members!spring 2023!Squirtle!!!!MIDI WarriorMIDI Warrior1234 Posts!OzspeckCool Dude AwardRising Star of the Web AwardMessage BuddyPocket Icelogist!OG! Joined 2021!...
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2021 @645.01 »

Ah this is a good topic!

Its definitely cool that your site is so small (Plus the design is great). I would like to see more sites like this. My main website is 1.04GB, BUT I do believe in compressing and keeping file sizes as small as possible (I just have A LOT of files).
Logged


everything lost will be recovered, when you drift into the arms of the undiscovered
Neonriser
Jr. Member ⚓︎
**


Creator of Nett

⛺︎ My Room
SpaceHey: Friend Me!
StatusCafe: neonriser
Matrix: Chat!

View Profile WWW

First 1000 Members!OG! Joined 2021!
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2021 @659.76 »

My website's size is 1.05 MB. That's pretty small. The biggest file in the site is the background image. If I were to reduce its size, I would use a marble tileset instead.

I believe that a website should be small enough to run on most computers. Not all computers run fast, and it would be unfair if the information people want or need would take around forever to load! That's why we design our sites to suit people of various levels of patience!
Logged

Web design is my passion!

Obspogon
Jr. Member ⚓︎
**


Hi

⛺︎ My Room
SpaceHey: Friend Me!
StatusCafe: obspogon
iMood: Obspogon
Matrix: Chat!
XMPP: Chat!

View Profile WWW

First 1000 Members!OG! Joined 2021!
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2021 @41.30 »

Mine is currently 3 MB, mostly because it's technically 2 sites (main site and blog). I try to use TinyPNG to compress the images.
Logged

----------------------
https://obspogon.neocities.org/
----------------------

easy_breezy
Jr. Member
**


PonPon

⛺︎ My Room
iMood: hax_man

View Profile

First 1000 Members!OG! Joined 2021!
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2021 @52.35 »

~200 MB for my art site
~100 MB for my personal site

They're loaded with .PNGs and music which is why they're large
Logged

So I was at the cash register when I realized, I GOT NO MONEY. I was seriously broke.
cinni
Full Member ⚓︎
***


believe in your dreams <3

⛺︎ My Room
SpaceHey: Friend Me!
StatusCafe: cinni

View Profile WWW

First 1000 Members!OG! Joined 2021!
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2021 @104.04 »

2.4GB, but i think that's shared between three sites? :omg:
Logged

worldwidewar
Casual Poster ⚓︎
*


🖕💩 👽👎💩🖕 👽💯➡️💩

⛺︎ My Room
iMood: worldwidewar

View Profile WWW

First 1000 Members!Joined 2022!
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2023 @713.07 »

Mine is currently at 11.7 MB with an average bloat score of 0.15.
Logged

____________________________________
/ After your lover has gone you will \
\ still have PEANUT BUTTER!          /
 ------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||--WWW |
                ||     ||
Memory
Guest
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2023 @732.94 »

As of the date of writing this, my website, counting all the hidden pages, is 17.7MB. There are images that I have not yet fully compressed due to laziness.




« Last Edit: February 14, 2023 @765.32 by GeckoF » Logged
brisray
Sr. Member ⚓︎
****


⛺︎ My Room

View Profile WWW

RocketmanFirst 1000 Members!Joined 2023!
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2023 @960.65 »

The size on disk doesn't really matter. Mine is 18.9Gb but that's hundreds of pages and hopefully no one is ever going to ask for it all at once. Now and then I get site scrapers that do, but they're rare.

Optimizing everything really is important. There's plenty of other sites to go to if a particular site takes more than a minute to fully load or at least enough to be useable. None of our sites are worth skipping though! Here's what I do:

All the images are optimized. It's surprising how bad an image has to be before it looks awful on a website. A printer would just laugh at you if you gave them web optimized images.

The JavaScript and CSS files are minified. I tried to do that with the HTML files as well but some of them didn't display properly the last time I tried that.

After that, because I run my own little server there's some techy stuff that can be done but one of the biggest impacts was enabling GZip. My server GZips everything before it's sent. There's a tradeoff doing that and the browser unpacking the files and the time taken to actually transmit them, but it's usually worth it.

I've run loads of different tests against the server and the pages it serves. I think it's impossible to pass every test, and it's taken a while to get everything more or less right but the server is about as secure as I can make it without becoming unusable and the average page loads in less than a second and a half.

If anyone is interested, here's a list of tests I run against the computer - https://brisray.com/web/utilities.htm


* load-tests.jpg (545.03 kB, 1200x1569 - viewed 68 times.)
« Last Edit: February 15, 2023 @968.03 by brisray » Logged
Cele
Sr. Member
****

any way the wind blows

⛺︎ My Room

View Profile

First 1000 Members!Joined 2022!
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2023 @118.19 »

My 5 websites together are 324.91 MB
Logged
SilkSkull
Hero Member
*****


⛺︎ My Room
SpaceHey: Friend Me!
iMood: SilkSkull
Matrix: Chat!

View Profile WWW

First 1000 Members!MARIO64.PNGCool Dude AwardJoined 2022!High Speed Ozwomp!
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2023 @130.15 »

This topic has me thinking, what are some ways I could make my site smaller?
Logged

She/Her
"Will you stop adding lampposts to my games?"

brisray
Sr. Member ⚓︎
****


⛺︎ My Room

View Profile WWW

RocketmanFirst 1000 Members!Joined 2023!
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2023 @228.48 »

I was wrong! Yes, I know! I was shocked myself when I realized it. Size does matter!

I forgot why I started hosting my own sites in the first place. The site was first hosted by Freeserve in June 1999. By October, I had used all 15Mb of space they gave. The site was split between them and Lycos Tripod who offered 20Mb of space. In May 2000, I'd filled all 35 Mb of space on both hosts and moved part of the site to Bravepages.

In October 2000, Tripod increased the user space to 100Mb, but by 2003 I was using 8 free hosts and the sites were getting out of hand. The hosts were also changing, too many ads, some were pig slow and others started using iframes that completely screwed up the site navigation. That June I made my first server and started bringing the site pages back together. By 2006, the only thing left on the free hosts I used was a redirect to my own server.
Logged
Memory
Guest
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2023 @502.12 »

I also wanted to add to this topic the fact that there's little mini-communities of people who have homepages with a certain small file size.

For example, the 1MB Club, the 512kB club, the 250kB club, or the 1kB club.
Logged
debleb
Full Member ⚓︎
***


He/him, scaley tailey dragon

⛺︎ My Room

View Profile WWW

First 1000 Members!Goose!Pocket Icelogist!High Speed Ozwomp!Joined 2022!
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2023 @876.37 »

mine is 112.35 MB. it's probably wayy bigger than it has to be, i just haven't really compressed any of my images... if i did it'd be a lot smaller haha!
Logged

"I would have thought you to be above something so banal as despair. Am I mistaken?"

PurpleHello98
Full Member ⚓︎
***


'Cause I'm your girl, hold me baby <3

⛺︎ My Room
SpaceHey: Friend Me!
StatusCafe: purplehello98

View Profile WWW

First 1000 Members!Joined 2022!
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2023 @181.79 »

~90 MB I believe, and most of that is taken up by photos from my gallery and a couple of other pages. Nowadays, I compress all my photos to at largest a megabyte, but I didn't used to. Also, I have quite a few GIFs that I've uploaded, though I don't use them all, and a tonne of buttons and blinkies for my button and blinkie archives. Though besides those two pages and my photo gallery, plus maybe another outlier or two, each page averages somewhere under a megabyte, so I don't believe my site is bloated or anything.
« Last Edit: February 28, 2023 @183.23 by PurpleHello98 » Logged

"...And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the means for which everything is sent."
-Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters



Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 5 Print 
« previous next »
 

Vaguely similar topics! (3)

Website example page

Started by Icey!Board ☆ ∙ Showcase & Links

Replies: 3
Views: 2263
Last post December 16, 2021 @285.10
by cinni
Website status (Check replies for part 2)

Started by Icey!Board ☆ ∙ Showcase & Links

Replies: 8
Views: 2564
Last post December 26, 2021 @841.50
by Icey!
Website Design & Mobile-Friendly Design

Started by NightdriftBoard ✁ ∙ Web Crafting

Replies: 32
Views: 5143
Last post June 04, 2024 @72.97
by Semper

Melonking.Net © Always and ever was! SMF 2.0.19 | SMF © 2021, Simple Machines | Terms and Policies Forum Guide | Rules | RSS | WAP2


MelonLand Badges and Other Melon Sites!

MelonLand Project! Visit the MelonLand Forum! Support the Forum
Visit Melonking.Net! Visit the Gif Gallery! Pixel Sea TamaNOTchi