Brian,
Reckon there may be something wrong with your connection. Just tried all
3 examples here & they all loaded in a few seconds (on a standard ADSL
line).
No website which takes 2 minutes to load is going to get any traffic...
Martyn
Brian Swale wrote:
> Out of curiosity, I checked the file sizes of a few notable and one less
> notable web-site(s). Mine being the latter.
>
> Facebook took 512,882 bytes to get to the point of presenting the full login
> screen. But it took at least 2 minutes to get there; probably more. I think
> the time was due to the complexity of the browser having to de-code very
> involved javascript.
>
> >From login to the complete loading of my 'Home' page, the total was
> 1,019,371 bytes. Lots more javascript resulted in about another 2+ minutes.
>
> Ken's Zone 10 front page used up 828,008 bytes in its present form with 2
> biggish images, and it took maybe less than 2 minutes.
>
> My own pages, the front page plus the next step the gallery page, used the
> surprising total of 425,698 bytes. I had no idea I had loaded that many to
> get
> there. And I have organised things so that wherever possible, images get
> re-used out of cache rather than needing to be downloaded more than once.
> These two pages were faster than any of the others by two orders of
> magnitude, probably due to the code being very simple for the browser to
> interpret.
> ......... .................. !!
> Brian Swale.
>
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