Interpreting & Optimizing - "Generate Size Reports"

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Reviewing my size report, what would you suggest I change in order to lower the overall size of the swf file. Currently it is: 172,001 k

START REPORT

main.swf Movie Report

Frame # Frame Bytes Total Bytes Scene

  1         172001         172001    Scene 1 (AS 2.0 Classes Export Frame)

Scene Shape Bytes Text Bytes ActionScript Bytes

Scene 1 0 0 0

Symbol Shape Bytes Text Bytes ActionScript Bytes

Symbol 3 0 175 0
Symbol 4 0 144 0
Symbol 1 0 44 0
Symbol 2 0 144 0
holder 0 0 0
text_menu 0 0 1
text_promo 0 0 1
text_about 0 0 1
text_contact 0 0 1
mcwhiteback 0 0 1
whiteback 35 0 0
mcmenu 0 0 268
mcheader 0 0 1
header 0 0 0
fortunecookie 0 0 0
foodshot 0 0 0
chopsticks 0 0 0
building 0 0 0
b_building 0 0 0
b_chopsticks 0 0 0
b_foodshot 86 0 0
b_fortunecookie 0 0 0

Font Name Bytes Characters

Monotype Corsiva 3117 ,.CLSabcdefghilmnoprstuvwy
ft7 1161 ACMOPUabceimnorstu

ActionScript Bytes Location

             1    text_contact:Layer 1:20
             1    text_about:Layer 1:20
             1    text_promo:Layer 1:20
             1    text_menu:Layer 1:20
             1    mcheader:Layer 1:50
             1    mcwhiteback:Layer 5:48
            66    mcmenu:building:54:No instance name assigned(b_building)
            67    mcmenu:chopstick:69:No instance name assigned(b_chopsticks)
            66    mcmenu:fortunecookie:84:No instance name assigned(b_fortunecookie)
            68    mcmenu:food:99:No instance name assigned(b_foodshot)
             1    mcmenu:Actions:104

Bitmap Compressed Compression

header.jpg 98570 606800 Imported JPEG=102
building.jpg 11725 40000 Imported JPEG=102
chopsticks.jpg 6488 40000 Imported JPEG=102
fortunecookie.jpg 4804 40000 Imported JPEG=102
foodshot.jpg 12119 40000 Imported JPEG=102

Event Sounds: 11KHz Mono 16 kbps MP3

Sound name Bytes Format

Ting-Public_D-35.wav 2610 5KHz Mono 16 kbps MP3
restrauntambience.wav 26431 11KHz Mono 16 kbps MP3

END REPORT

Things I noticed:

  • the button b_foodshot is 86 bytes. The other buttons are identical. Why arent they all the same bytes?

  • header.jpg appears to be the largest culprit. When I export header.jpg from Photoshop it displays the file size as 102k. The way I read this report is that header.jpg is compressed to 98570k. If that’s the case, what is the Compression field value for?

  • the audio is as slim as I could make it, is there an optimal setting within flash to lower this value?

Cheers,
Daniel