Homepage size

[Lanz]

Are there any professional website designers here? If so, would you say that 4.5MB for a homepage is excessive? When I analysis many other popular sites, they are under 1MB is size. This new design seems big to me, causing excessive traffic.

 

[Lanz]

Yes, that's the tool I used to check.

It's one rotating image on a carousal that is around 3.5MB, would a large image like that controlled by a script potentially experience problem during peak periods?

 

[Lanz]

Useful, thanks. Although I'm just the server admin guy, I'm trying to push back to the web guys, get them to sort out the html, rather then look at the server side.

3 people in the loop, web, iis admin and me the VM admin. (I know very little about web or iis)