Exporting QT from FCP for website

I recently posted about this and got a good answer, but now I have more questions.....
I have a DV NTSC 48K 4:3 project in FCP that is 2 minutes long. I exported it as a QT through QT Conversion at a size of 320x240, and chose AAC as a sound format, with a 192 target bit rate. The QT looks good, but it is 21.9 MB, which I think may be too big for easy access on a website. Maybe there isn't a way to make it smaller in terms of MB's and still look good, but if there is, I'd love to know.
I noticed that there are export options in the QT Conversion menu settings like "broadband", etc. Are any of these recommended?
I'm new to the website-making part of this, so keep that in mind for your answer - thanks!

You're in for a fair bit of experimenting. And the bad part is that no one but you can really say what is good enough.
When it makes sense I post both an h264 QT and a wmv, sometimes even make various wmv's at different bitrates for those poor saps with stone age computers.
That's another decision you've got to make: do you want EVERYONE to be able to see it, or do you just go with the best and to heck with anyone who can't figure out how to download QT player?

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