Nathan,

Would it make sense to break this up into several documents and add a search function? You could still have a giant, one-page (and thus easily-printable) option, but maybe that wouldn't be the default. 

The search feature I'm envisioning would just be a search of key words in the title of a box. A tag-cloud sort of thing might be a useful way of making some of the keywords visible too. 

Ken

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nathan Tallman
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 2:49 PM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] HTML Load Time

Hi Cod4Libers,

I've got a LARGE finding aid that was generated from EAD.  It's over 5 MB
and has caused even Notepad++ and Dreamweaver to crash.  My main concern is
client-side load time.  The collection is our most heavily used and the
finding aid will see a lot of traffic.  I'm fairly adept with HTML, but I
can't think of anything.  Does anyone have any tricks or tips to decrease
the load time?  The finding aid can be viewed at <
http://www.americanjewisharchives.com/aja/FindingAids/ms0361.html>.

Thanks,
Nathan Tallman
Associate Archivist
American Jewish Archives