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amount of Javascript on site

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hey guys,

just curious, how much javascript (total filesize) is too much for a fast site? I've been messing with the scriptaculous stuff and its like 200 Kb...

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Post by Kieran Huggins »

jQuery's much leaner, but at any rate your javascript includes will be cached by the browser. 200k is quite excessive though, IMO.
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I agree with Kieran. It should not be that big.
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Post by arpowers »

yup the standard package from scrip.aculo.us is 220 KB.

So.... how does this work?


thanks guys:)
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