This page provides a comparison between pages from the old and new versions of the site to show why the new version of the small pages load faster.

 

     Number of Files   Overall File Size   HTML size   Overall image size   Notes
Picture Page Old 21 50.0 10.3 39.7 7.0 KB of images used for navigation
  New 3 41.2 4.0 37.2 Page image slightly larger (35.7 KB vs. 32.9 KB)
  Percent reduction 85.7 17.6 61.2 6.3
           
Album Page Old 26 59.2 11.8 47.3 5.7 KB of images used for navigation
  New 10 34.6 5.2 29.4 Used smaller thumbnails, and only 8 per page
  Percent reduction 61.5 41.6 55.9 37.8
           
Section Page Old 52 63.7 17.1 46.6 20.6 KB of images used for navigation
  New 2 47.9 4.7 43.1 Used larger page image (43.1 KB vs 26.5KB)
  Percent reduction 96.2 24.8 72.5 7.5
           
Home Page Old 19 29.3 14.5 14.8 6.2 KB of images used for navigation
  New 2 10.5 6.6 3.9
  Percent reduction 89.5 64.2 54.5 73.6
           
Photo Collection Old 27 32.9 17.7 15.1 14.2 KB of images used for navigation
  New 1 4.5 4.5 0
  Percent reduction 96.3 86.3 74.6 100.0
           
Site Map Old 5 81.2 78.6 2.5
  New 1 33.5 33.5 0
  Percent reduction 80.0 58.7 57.4 100.0
           
Gateway Page Old 54 72.2 15.7 56.4 16.5 KB of images used for navigation
  New 2 41.7 4.6 37
  Percent reduction 96.3 42.2 70.7 34.4

 

All files sizes in KB.

'Number of Files' is the number of individual files needed to display the page.

'Overall File Size' is the size of all the files need to diplay the page.

'HTML size' is the size of the coding used on the page.

'Overall image size' is the sum of the sizes of all the image files used on the page.