How much % of the information on an average website consists out of pictures ?

I would like to know if I disable "images" in my webbrowser, how much lower my traffic will be ...20 % - 30 % - 40 % ......

I know it will depends on specific websites but I am talking about random sample of website..

 

Some browsers allow you to block images and opera has the speed thing.

 

Firefox can block images but the question is how much lower your bytes consumption will be

 

If you block images, videos, and ads you'll be downloading maybe 30% the normal number of bytes.

 

the real question is why and what is your application?

Are you trying to do bandwidth management, measure rendering performance, or ????

 

I am gonna surf mobile in Africa where surfing is expensive up to $100/Gb.

Just trying to get an idea how much lower traffic will be by disabling images..

 

Opera reckon that enabling their Turbo option can compress pages by up to 80% and you still get images, albeit in low quality. Probably with a giving it a try.

 

I just saved this thread as a full web page. With images disabled you'd save about 50KB (100KB with flash also blocked) out of a total of 521KB.

 

at $50- a gig renting an inmarsat or irridium satellite data terminal starts being cost-effective.

you might also look up the cost of a pre-paid (in your home country) GSM data plan. Often these can be bought in-advance at a much cheaper rate than buying one in-country or on-holiday.

 

That's about 20 % but I guess a lot of pages have a lot more fancy stuff , saving much more..

 

What else can you eliminate using FF to reduce consumption besides images and flash ? (what add-on to eliminate flash ?)

 

you can apparently eliminate a lot!