On Saturday, May 09, 2009 07:41, Martyn Smoothy wrote:
> I suppose being on dial-up may have something to do with it..... :-)
I use dial up. I have found that it runs consistantly at 6 minutes per
megabyte. On sites which I visit often and the big pieces don't change
caching will reduce load times somewhat.
>
> Martyn Smoothy wrote:
> > 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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