Ok, I know this is a tough one since everyone is dif but you guy nailed the first question perfectly.

Looking at a typical small business site, what % of pages served would be HTML, images, other files and what would you expect the standard size the HTML, image files to be?

Thanks again for your help!

Deaner,

That's like asking..... "How many rooms are there in a house?" if you don't have a foundation, an architect's plan or a builder to help you out.

Until you actually get a site drawn up and put live, you'll have no blooming idea how much bandwidth you're going to transfer.

It also depends - most business sites only use 2-7 or 8 graphics; some may use more than that, while others may have button rollovers, etc. It's on the whim of the designer.

However, what I can say is : optimally, HTML pages should be below 40k, and image sizes below 30k (and squashed right down to the last byte if possible). Most business sites should stay below these suggested limits.

BC's pretty well right. There's a million ways to build a site so it's very hard to say... Size of site, products sold, designer skill, clients requests *yadda yadda*

In extremely broad terms, and taking a guess I'd say something like the following for a business site.

- usually around 10-20 pages
- each page 20-50k in size
- total image 'weight' of site around 200-800k
- data transfer (unknown)

Of course this very general. akashik.net for instance rolls in at a chubby 8 meg for html, images, and a few other files here and there. Our support docs along are over 2 meg and mostly text and tables. Include the databases on top of that and it blows out yet again.

Our images folder is only 622k however with 125 images in it. It's a fairly big site so I doubt you'd be looking at anything much bigger than that really.

Umm, did that help?

Greg Moore