Bloated code?

[rickle42]

I am wondering if programs like dreamweaver and joomla generate code that will slow a browser down. I am assuming its gotta be more code than if done from scratch, but is it enough to be noticably slower? And yes I do realize if you were going to make a forum it would be kind of silly to do it from scratch....

Thanks,
Jon

[Slothie]

Probably not significantly. I'd supposed most of the supposed slowdown would come from badly coded javascript (memory leaks etc etc).

With today's broadband speeds, even a page that's 500k should load pretty fast. Gone are the days of spending countless hours optimizing a site for 56k.