"These days computers can download much larger files quicker"

Fallacy - 56 Kb dialup is still the same speed for those of us who may never get Broadband, what with being at the end of The International Super Goat Track...

BTW, the current HTML pages the Cat itself pushes out contain several Kb per page of unnecessary blank lines, tabs, and other stuff such as commented out lines that overall, must add up to quite a load slowdown on the server...

KISS!