Few long pages or many short ones in ASP. Which is faster?

[Zick Boy]

I tought someone could help me with this question. What is better in terms of performance/speed. Having many short (100 or less lines of code) asp pages or less asp pages but bigger (230+ lines of code).

If I make my pages larger (currently they're small ones), I'll be using about 10-15 pages less in my directory and will save some space but not much and HD space is not an issue for me. Having small pages is easier for me to code. The thing I am concerned about is the speed of the server, will it take more time loading a large page?

Regards

[kstatefan40]

With broadband as popular today as it is, users with dsl/cable or faster will not notice a speed difference. 56Kers should be used to waiting Just don't use a ton of images on your pages and you should be fine.

As for whether to use many pages or fewer pages, its completely up to you. I am not one that likes to scroll down much, so I usually do many small pages. This is completely personal preference though. I wouldn't complain about having fewer long pages, but when I code, I prefer many little pages.

If you are worried that making fewer large pages is harder to code, have you considered using an ASP form of includes? I am not much with ASP, as my web server is run in a UNIX environment, but in PHP, you can include files. I've got my site set up so that when I make a new page, I can write a 4 line PHP file and have it include the content for the individual page.

HTH