How to organize page with tons of links?

[cirano]

Here is an example http://free.prohosting.com/iskrica/

Originally, this page is close to 1.5Mb but it was compressed with
javascript. Any idea how to make it smaller (some automatic chunking
software?) or even searcheable (by sex, age, etc...)?

[Mark Tranchant]

cirano wrote:

Here is an example http://free.prohosting.com/iskrica/

Originally, this page is close to 1.5Mb but it was compressed with
javascript. Any idea how to make it smaller (some automatic chunking
software?) or even searcheable (by sex, age, etc...)?

Smaller - enable gzip compression on the server. Then you can lose the
JS compression, as it'll be redundant.

If it were gziped the requested page (291485 bytes) would be the
following sizes at:

Level bytes % of orig size
0 291531 100.0158
1 163496 56.0907
2 162585 55.7782
3 160317 55.0001
4 156913 53.8323
5 155545 53.363
6 154798 53.1067
7 154287 52.9314
8 153956 52.8178
9 153956 52.8178

(thanks to www.twisted4life.com for this table!)

Searchable - you'll need to completely rebuild the site with a database
back-end and scripted front end. My favourites are PHP and MySQL.

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[cirano]

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Smaller - enable gzip compression on the server. Then you can lose the JS
compression, as it'll be redundant.
Not possible, it's a free server.
If it were gziped the requested page (291485 bytes) would be the following
sizes at:

Level bytes % of orig size
0 291531 100.0158
1 163496 56.0907
2 162585 55.7782
3 160317 55.0001
4 156913 53.8323
5 155545 53.363
6 154798 53.1067
7 154287 52.9314
8 153956 52.8178
9 153956 52.8178

(thanks to www.twisted4life.com for this table!)
Interesting, i tried non-compressed version and got similar results. Worth a
shot!
Searchable - you'll need to completely rebuild the site with a database
back-end and scripted front end. My favourites are PHP and MySQL.

Well, since it's on a free server I doubt there will be SQL service
avaiable.
This is simply too long page, it needs some sort of shrinking.

[chris_develop]

Hi,

I cant really think of a way to shrink it, is it such a difficulty to
split the pages up? Ie. 20 links per page? You could build an
interface with frames so that the pages would be easily navigatable -
much more efficient on both the server and client sides, whereas now
you have to download 1.5mb (albiet uncompressed) even if you only need
one link..

Interesting problem though!

Chris.

[jmm-list-gn]

cirano wrote:

Searchable - you'll need to completely rebuild the site with a database
back-end and scripted front end. My favourites are PHP and MySQL.
Well, since it's on a free server I doubt there will be SQL service
avaiable.

Have you checked?
This is simply too long page, it needs some sort of shrinking.

Then break the page into smaller pieces. Choose a sorting method
(alphabetical, length, etc), provide a table of contents, and next and
previous links.

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