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Originally posted by Chop Smith
Fuseblown,
I use FrontPage, but usually use EditPad to edit it. Did not know that it could make that much difference. Thanks for taking a look.
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FP and Dreamweaver tend to use a lot of repetitive tags and such that have no effect on how the page is displayed, so it's just extra "weight" sitting in your file. Hand coding can definately help, but it will only help if you're efficient about the way you use your code and tags.
Every extra character in the HTML is an extra byte, again it might not seem like much, but if your gallery is getting pounded with tons of traffic, it can make a difference across all of your galleries, etc.
100 extra bytes viewed 100,000 times is 10,000,000 bytes or approx 10MB, an extra 1KB is approx. 100MB when viewed 100,000 times, etc. I can usually save myself 2-3KB on the HTML alone just by hand coding it, which can add up in the long-run.
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