I dont see a good spot to jump in there so Ill opine here instead  I think that my overload comment referred to how much more text there is in the wikitext compared to what you see on the final screen My point there was about the bit at the top of the edit screen that advises you that maybe this article should be split into separate articles As far as Im aware thats a raw byte count and I bet I could even find the config directive that triggers the warning The problem with that advisory is that it assumes an arbitrary content ratio For instance a featured list will often consist of one or several sortable tables each list entry having a cite template And CSS styles are applied to make headings have colours styles are used to emphasize list entries blah blah In this case the bytecount will far exceed the visible character count Dr pdas counter on appearances does an accurate count of the actual screen output  though I would love to see the inputoutput ratios since they would inform my views on the raw number warning shown at the edit screen Basically the raw number has no necessary relation to the length of the article you actually see on the screen As far as download times go those are actually vastly dominated by image download times For instance my talk page right now shows as KB and the actual HTML download is KB However put four images in there at KB each  youve just doubled the download time For a dialup user youll get KBsecond at the best of times so my page with four images will take  seconds to load Realistically double that Its not a pretty picture Get yourself a dialup connection and have a peek at ANI at peak drama I start hacking away at the Reference Desks when I see them topping KB  I can tell cause even my system gets shaky Another pointer  if you have a pretty good computer and youre noticing that things are getting slow and shaky the page has already gone long beyond what most of the world can handle Im not even going to check if its right try clicking on WTWPSPAM Actually I did click K on the edit screen K actual HTML Did I mention templates If any of this maundering could be possibly relevant to your discussion pin it down Ill research it thoroughly and give up the specifics I hardly think though that you intended this general and lengthy comment to be placed into a discussion