(02-10-2015, 11:10 AM)Markster Wrote: I dunno... on my 56K modem, it's going to take like 30 seconds to download all the avatars on a page even at 6k! 25k is really pushing it, man! That's like 6 seconds an avatar!
Just turn up your image caching, then. You only have to download each avatar once.
... I'm pretty sure that the reason I couldn't get below 14kB on a jpeg export from Picasa was that it's stuffing a ton of metadata in the image, probably stored in bloated XML. But that underlines the hilarity of the issue. Nobody cares anymore if an image carries 12kB of overhead.