[9860] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Improve the traffic condition on the Internet (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William F. Hammond)
Thu Mar 21 11:21:02 1996
From: "William F. Hammond" <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:06:01 -0500 (EST)
To: megazone@livingston.com, www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
It was just said:
> . . . Monitoring even small sites shows that nearly all users still
> download the graphics and text is *not* the majority. . . .
If the "monitoring" is just counting bytes, then that is probably true.
But I suspect that most of the useful information delivered through
http is either text/plain or text/html. Unfortunately, it's common
for 10 KB of useful text/html to travel with 30 KB of IMG baggage.
-- Bill
