I suppose being on dial-up may have something to do with it..... :-)
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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