Optimizing images seems less and less important these days as access speeds get higher and higher. And yet slow web pages is still one of the biggest complaints people have about the web. While I realize that all pages are different, what is your general guideline or rule-of thumb for the total size of images on one web page? WebSiteOptimization.com recommends all images should be less than 100K per page to keep the download fast. What do you think?

Poll: How big is too big for images on a web page? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, August 5th, 2010 at 05:15:09.

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