How on Earth can you deal with such long load times? I'd pull my hair out!
DSL rules!
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On 5/9/09 9:38 AM, "Doug" <doug9345@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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