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1 Mbps and each page is 5 seconds? It sounds like huge pages you are viewing

1 Mbps * 5 = 5 Mb = 625 KB

That's not huge at all, you can barely fit a few pictures into that. The page we are on require 100 KB, the page it link require 300 KB, and both aren't big and have no image to show.

I try to keep my pages down under 50k, 30k or less 80% of the time. Perhaps it's me but I think anything over 999k is insane unless it's spa or a page full of graphing function. My expectation that others are doing the same might be incorrect.

Well satellite has bad latency on top of that. Not especially large pages, I'd say. eBay, IMDb, Wikipedia.

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