On Aug 31, 5:38 am, Bazza wrote:
> My Google Webmaster Tools diagnostics for Mobile Crawl Errors states
> that an error has been found for URLs in Sitemaps. The description of
> the error is "Document size too large".
> The webpage is 484kb, including all the images etc. is there a maximum
> size recommendation for webpages?
What was it Dante said was written over the gates of Hades? "Abandon
hope all ye who enter here?"
The problem is that the market is moving many times faster than the
W3C committee structure and/orGoogle. I'm mobile at the moment using
a 1280x1024 screen (they don't tell you THAT in school) over a 7.2mBit/
s link. Browser functionality is exploding, so the W3C's "Mobile Best
Practice" that says you should write for good presentation even when
the device doesn't support CSS is laughable - most handhelds have
better CSS support than most screens.
(We'll leave the downright diabolical iPhone - no Java,no Flash - out
of this for a moment.)
Yes, there are recommended maximum size limits. According to the W3C,
it's twenty kilobytes! I think that must have been written around
1996. See the moan here:
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/?docAddr=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.isham-resear...
Now that page works perfectly on every post-2002 handheld I've tried
it on, down to a pixel width of 132. That'smy lower test limit - I use
a Siemens S65 for that with the OpenWave browser. The real one - the
simulator is pants. There is someone, somewhere, who regularly visits
my site with a pixel width of 122!
