The power of CSS
09 Aug 2004I stumbled across this today, speaking of the transition between tables-based and non-standards centric design to CSS, standards compliant development.
I’m looking forward to the next person asking me why I care about standards at all getting stabbed in the face with this quote:
As for bandwidth, roughly speaking Multimap.com serves 4 million pages a day. On average, the HTML of the old site weighed in at 65kb per page. The new site pages are half that at 35Kb. That’s a saving of 40,000 Gb of bandwidth per year! I’ll leave you to translate that into money, but I can tell you the move to Web standards paid for itself within a month.
“The move to Web standards paid for itself within a month.”
How incredible is that? Admittedly, a website attracting this volume of traffic isn’t exactly typical of most, but that isn’t the point.
This demonstrates REAL and TANGIBLE benefits to standards compliance, besides the other, self-evident benefits of the same. What’s not to like about making the web more accessible, display better on all platforms, and ultimately allow a wider audience access to your resource?
I could rant about this for longer, of course. I won’t, though. Check out http://webstandardsgroup.org/ for the source of that quotation… they’ve also got a whole heap of other interesting stuff on there.