I found a what looks like a great resource when doing competitive keyword research for “web usability“. (By the way, it doesn’t look like I’ll ever rank in the top ten for this term). I came across usability.gov a US Department of Health and Human Services website dedicated to usability research. The sub-result for usability.gov is their usability guidelines. I thought, “Wow, what a gem! How did I miss this for so long?” I clicked on the link to download the PDF only to bring my computer to a griding halt. I had to restart my firefox and AIM and then reopen the site and download the PDF to my computer. I didn’t realize it was a 161 megabyte PDF. Aren’t PDFs supposed to be small and portable? I know I’ve seen at least 300 page books in a just a couple megabyte file. Come on usability.gov what’s going on here?