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Chapter 3 ■ Things to Consider Before Beginning
Figure 3.1
Flowchart showing a site that contains more than 30 different pages.
bandwidth limitations are strict, the homepage design may possibly have to fit
under 30–50KB. On the other hand, if the bandwidth limitations are liberal, the
limit for the homepage design could be anywhere from 50 KB to 500KB or even
higher.
As previously mentioned, user bandwidth is a relative term. No matter what the
supposed connection speed is, many factors influence what that bandwidth really
is. Some of those factors include the following:
1. How many users are concurrently hitting the same site? The media used
to occasionally report on sites going down because the sites’ servers were
not equipped to handle so many immediate users. While the problem of a
server going down is an extreme example, a server does not need to go
completely down to have its download speed compromised.