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In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Thorn wrote:
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Re: the logofest: I think like Erik said, we need to be byte-concious. I
think a goal should be to keep the entire frontpage loading size to 100KB or
less.
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I was thinking more like 50KB or less. The current homepage weighs in at
44.2KB, of which 27.7KB of this is images. It’s pretty easy to keep small
images down to 1 or 2 KB each (or even less) if care is taken. Many of the
LUGNET toolbar icons are 0.2 to 0.5 KB.
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That will keep loading time for dialups at around two seconds and for
33KB/sec’ers that’ll be around four seconds. The average user will find a
different website if the page takes longer than twelve seconds to load.
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So if it takes eleven seconds to load, they stay, and if it takes thirteen
seconds to load, they bolt?
I think what actually matters is how quickly the first approximation to the
final rendered page appears. When the width and height attributes of all
the image tags are set properly, the body text of the page loads almost
immediately, followed by the images over the next few seconds (on a slow
connection). The difference between 4 seconds and 10 seconds is minor if you
immediately see content that you can begin reading and if it’s obvious that the
images will finish loading an a finite amount of time. That said, I agree that
faster is always better.
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I don’t know what kind of traffic LUGNET gets,
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Currently about 70 GB/month.
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but I don’t think the front page should be slow to load. If anything I
think it should be the fastest thing - after all, it’s really only an
umpteen-way intersection.
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Fast is good :) but there will always be text-only pages on the site that are
still faster.
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Usually when someone arrives at a website, their eye movement starts at
the center of the page, then makes a large circle outward from about 9
o’clock.
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Interesting...I’ve never heard that. Is that information from a study of
end-users of a variety of different websites?
--Todd
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