I need to create a site that is very graphics-heavy (torn paper backgrounds with transparent shadows over textured graphics, etc.) One way that I was thinking of saving on file size was to drop all my background elements into one PNG. The issue is that this file is now 180k. If I break it up into various GIFs and a couple PNGs then it would be closer to 70k.
Does it really matter? What is "too large" these days for file size? Will anyone notice if the file is 180 or 70k?