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Originally Posted by geckoday
My home page is about 12K of HTML, the CSS is about 7K. So 19K would go to 60K+ wih your CSS. What's the shopper benefit of a 3 times larger page? Nothing - its a programmers thing. I would look at greatly simplifying your css and/or breaking it up so only what's needed on a page gets loaded there.
X-Cart please do work on getting xhtml compliant and all, but don't go overboard.
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Case in point, I've converted 4.0.16 to a CSS W3C compliant code base, and the final CSS total is only 11kb to control everything on the site. Doing such I stripped around 30kb of HTML away from the .tpl's reducing download times from the standard out of box tpl code.
using websiteoptimization.com here's the results I've gotten, keep in mind im not splitting the CSS into segments as well as the original skin1.css is in place just for redudancy for official x-cart add-ons and modules to function properly. Also I use large thumbnails on my site anyone with smaller thumbnails or using mini_thumbs from the custom mods forum on listing pages will defiantly see a greater decrease in download times, since X-Cart is known to resize product thumbnails in HTML on listing pages which greatly bloats download times.
http://www.cart-lab.com
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Connection Rate Download Time
14.4K 56.38 seconds
28.8K 28.29 seconds
33.6K 24.28 seconds
56K 14.65 seconds
ISDN 128K 4.62 seconds
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Here is X-Cart 4.0.1 stats:
http://www.x-cart.com/demo_preview/home.php
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Connection Rate Download Time
14.4K 69.44 seconds
28.8K 34.72 seconds
33.6K 29.76 seconds
56K 17.86 seconds
ISDN 128K 5.47 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 0.47 seconds
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I would second the W3C valid CSS and HTML, as well as implementing the GD or ImageMagick library so that our download times are faster rather than resizing images with html just to bloat precious pages up ultimately anoyoing the beloved customer.
All these new bells and whistles are nice, but focus on Conversion Rates and download times more would be my 2cents on the 4.1.x beta.
