RE: UKNM: Fast-loading sites

[Phil Gyford]

At 12:21 pm -0400 1999-10-14, Lee Rickler wrote:

>28k modem!! errr .. yeah okay. Even my mum has a faster modem than that!!


a) This implies you don't care about anyone who has a 28k modem.

b) I'm on a 56k modem but have yet to achieve a connection greater 

than 28k. Similarly, when I was in the UK I had a 33.6 which never 

got about 26.4 connection. Not a lot I can do about it, but obviously 

such situations don't seem to abe a concern of yours.


>Anyway ... the whole point of what I am saying, that's if we are on 

>the same wavelength, is that design and build should be to the 

>viewers choice. Sorry but it just seems so obvious to me that if you 

>can get away with, (as in - viewers are happy/ served/ informed 

>etc.), planting as much info on a page as you need then why stick to 

>something else?


There's a difference between planting lots of info on a page and 

overloading it with unnecessary stuff. If your primary concern is to 

efficiently present lots of info, you wouldn't have some of it 

embedded in a 64k scrolling gif 

<http://www.djindex.com/img/sacr_text.gif>. I'm sure you have had 

plenty of great comments from people about the site, but isn't there 

a chance that those who don't like it will just go somewhere else 

rather than email you, especially if they couldn't be bothered to 

wait for the page to download?


When I was at Capital Interactive I don't recall receiving any 

feedback from users about our pages being too slow after the site was 

redesigned in Nov 98. But that doesn't mean I thought the site was 

great. In fact it was one of the most appallingly slow sites I could 

find when I did a little survey for myself (some pages took at least 

2 minutes to load). I can't check the figure now, as their DNS has 

been screwed for months now, and it's impossible to see *any* of 

their sites from here.


Try going to http://www.websitegarage.com/ and see what it has to say 

about the size of your page.


>Basically my answer to most of what Phil says, in my best Jerry 

>Springer participants' favourite saying, is ... "Whatever"


Excellent defence, Lee.


>I like it and all the visitors, bar Phil, are contented. So it stays 

>the way it is until we redesign the whole site which will be in 

>about 4 months time.


Jumping to conclusions a little. Insert the words "who emailed us" 

after the word "visitors".


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