Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Won't wait
I agree. Most of the web surfers I run into are pretty impatient ... if a
site doesn't load pretty quickly, they're off the next and have forgotten
about it.
A few years back, I attended an indepth demographics survey - very
interesting - one of the many things covered was how the time to click a
mouse while surfing the web had become a 'time standard' for one group of
the younger generation and you would loose their attention if the response
to the mouse click wasn't rapid.
For web viewing there really in no excuse for excessively large image files.
I try to keep my posted images around 100 KB unless a bigger file is
required.
It's why I try to keep my web images a reasonable size when I post simple
JPEGs for the PESOs, i keep my website pages small. It's why I use
flickr.com ... despite other shortcomings, I find it loads pretty fast,
reliably. (BTW, there's a nice little flickr browsing app for the
iPhone/iPod Touch that makes it even nicer to wander through a gallery of
photos. "Klick" ... I believe it's free.)
It's not just a matter of hosting and fast servers. The whole system has
to be tuned to obtain good performance.
Godfrey
On Apr 25, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
The main reason I subscribe, not that I want to disparage the wit &
witticisms, nor indeed the hardware lore, is those every-so-often
things, you know, with pixels in them. It's like they used to say
about Playboy mag: I just read it for the pictures.
But: I'm impatient. So whatever your hosting setup is, if I click on
the PESO link and the screen on my browser doesn't have a picture on
it Pretty Damn Quick, I'm not waiting. For those of you have personal
audiences who'll wait for your crippled-wombat-driven server because
they're your Mom or boyfriend or grad student or whatever, that's
fine, but if you're trying to build an audience (and I acknowledge
that many aren't, and that's fine), you just gotta have a snappy
server. My time is my most precious commodity.
Good hosting is pretty cheap these days. -T
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