The content-to-code ratio

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"GetContentSize will tell you, for example, that CNN.com's home page -- just the page itself, not any attached images, JavaScript classes or style sheets -- weighs 47,000 bytes but only devotes 8.70 percent of that to text content. (Really makes you wonder what the other 91.3 percent of the document accomplishes.)"

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