← 04 TRACEWhat is left behind?
I moved from stage one to stage two
I moved the page where I was testing colours and type off to the side, and turned the first screen into a walk through the site.
This is the entry retold in plain words. The sentences the author wrote are on the other side of the switch. Nobody wrote the sentences on this page by hand.
In the first stage of building this site there was only one page, for testing whether the colours and type worked together.
I moved that page to the address /art-direction,
and turned the first screen into a route that walks through the whole site at once.
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of pages | 1 | 8 |
| Code the browser downloads | 168.6 KB | 173.7 KB |
| Share of the limit I set | 93% | 96% |
"Code the browser downloads" is how much has to come down the wire to open a page. More of it means a slower page, so I set a limit up front and build only inside it.
Moving the whole menu costs just 5.1 KB of code. There is 7 KB of room left, and I expect to hit the limit in the next stage.
I did not delete the test page. It shows why this site ended up in its current shape, and that record is itself one of the things the site is here to show.