For the curious, this page that complains about large pages is 989K.
edit: The optimal solution would be to really compress (or sprite!) the small images and on a click, display a modal with the image in full size, limited to 100% height or width plus a bit of padding. You don't even need jQuery for this and only load the images you really want as fullsize.
I wasn't making a judgment on the size, just posting it for the curious.
Not bloated in the least. Pure content.
I have a habit of saving everything I read online. Incidentally, this is also made worse by bloat and especially sites that load some content via JS.
You were saying?
The reason why you'd want shorter line lengths is because long line lengths are less readable. I've seen this mentioned this mentioned online and it appears to be true in my experience as well. Granted, I suppose you could always just resize the window...
IMO a large majority of those images would be better off replaced by the Taft image (or not included at all).
Your tools are probably not loading images if they show such a small number.
Uncompressed, it's 67KB. This does not account for the remainder of the resources.
http://www.aetherltd.com 5726 bytes.
But if try the tool at "http://analyze.websiteoptimization.com/wso", I get 1276134 bytes, including all referenced files. The big items are fonts. The fonts are offered in three formats (.ttf, .woff, and .eot.), and the tool counts all of them, even though most browsers will only load one format.