I have a quick question and It might not be the right place the ask it but I hope someone can help me becuase im curious.
I'm creating a one-page website whit a lot of style (isnt designed webfriendly and uses a lot of images) this isnt a big problem because we believe we're aiming at a more design branche who most likely have kind of good pcs with a pretty ok connection to the internet and the site is sized down a lot of mobile.
But still I wonder what people recommend. my site is currently 2.2mb on loading (is there a website where you can check this btw? I just made a guess by calculating the file sizes of images etc.) I can still optimize a lot but I think going under 1mb is being a hard task. is this good enough or is there anyway who has experienced it isnt?
thanx in advance
Answer
You shouldn't worry about the size of your website (especially since you know your target audience) if the user experience doesn't suffer. However, you should optimize everything you can without sacrificing the design. Google's Page Speed might help you a lot. They even have the total size calculator you wanted. There are tons of similar tools available online as well.
Also, read this about last year's website size trends: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/bloated-web-pages-costly-for-smartphone-users/article9355125/
According to the website HTTP Archive, which regularly studies the top 10,000 most-visited sites online, the average web page now weighs in at about 1.3 megabytes, up about 35 per cent in the last year.
UPDATE
Inspired by @pwdst's comments, I'd like to add that if you want support for mobiles, tablets, etc... there's no need to sacrifice the look of the main site - you can use media queries and practically serve a different presenation to those users. Of course, you can go even further and make a different website for them (usually a subdomain).