Comments on: Smaller Google home page

By: Paul Scrivens

Paul Scrivens — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Myself and a couple of others recreated Google in CSS layouts and also saw a drop in file sizes along with better accessibility. Check it out

http://www.itnextgen.net/pseudo/archives/design_journal/css_google.php

By: MikeyC

MikeyC — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“The result is 30% smaller and works slightly better.”

This is a bit of a surprise to me as I’d read that Google did a bunch of research and figured out how much money they would save in bandwidth by simply optimizing their home page.

So they did it… but obviously (as you’ve shown) it could have been optimized even further (30% is not exactly trivial). Any idea why they didn’t go as far as you did? Did you sacrifice backwards-compatibility with older browsers or something like that?

By: Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know why Google hasn’t already done this. I haven’t tested very old browsers, but somewhat old browsers do better with my version than they do with the original.

By: vamsi

vamsi — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

it’s very great.

By: pearl necklace (spammer)

pearl necklace (spammer) — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

how does it end up working better, by just changing the size?

By: snowchyld

snowchyld — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

google–

Jesse Ruderman makes a smaller faster google supernifty =D…