Keeping SCORM package small, best practices?

MANY years ago, I presented "Web Delivery for the Absolute Beginner" at The Alternative Authorware Conferences (TAAC) here in the States, in the UK, and in the Netherlands. At that time, tube monitors displaying 1,024 X 768 @ 72 dpi were all the rage, 4" SoundBlaster speakers with VERY limited frequency range on the desk handled audio, dial-up was still the primary means to connect to the Internet for home users, and data rates for corporate users were not that much better. Many of the tips I offered then still apply, including:

• Reduce the resolution and the DPI of your images. Yeah, 7680 x 4320 (8k) at 1200 DPI is fabulous, but unless I'm playing "Where's Waldo?" with individual pixels, its absolutely overkill for an eLearning course. Drop both of those down to a size which is still viewable. I'd suggest starting with 1280 X 1024 @ 300 dpi and tweak from there.
• Use JPEG compression for photos and PNG for computer-generated imagery. Again, do I need to the able to study the individual hairs on a subject midway into the background? Or detect slight differences in the color of a 1 pixel horizontal line?
• Digital video: at that time, I was suggesting frame-rates of 15 fps (frames per second) or less (30 fps was the king, 29.97 for those of us who were in broadcast) and without dedicated hardware compression, you weren't getting full-screen video. Even quarter-screen was pushing the limit. Again, do you need Hollywood-style smooth motion @ 60 fps or 120 fps and full-screen to get the point across? Same goes for imported animations.
• Digital audio: do you need CD-quality 44k sound, in stereo? 22k mono was more than adequate for narration, and you ended up reducing the file size by a factor of 4.
• Text, motion, and interactivity take up next to no space. Exploit them as much as possible, just don't use every font in the list, ala a ransom note; motion for every single element, unless you want the learner to get whiplash; and every thing is a button/hotspot/hot object, unless you want to buy everyone new mice when they wear their current ones out.