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Load time on my website
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:42:13 GMT
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Troy Cefaratti <mnementh@nacs=AntiSpam=.net>
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<DISCLAIMER>I'm about to talk about my Lego Brick Store website. Before
this degenerates into another long thread about posting in inappropriate
places, I just want it to be clear that I am not flogging my parts for sale.
I have legitimate questions about the actual site itself. </DISCLAIMER>
My site: http://troy.simplenet.com/lego/store/
Questions:
1. Is the load time of the pages acceptable? Load time was REALLY slow when
I first posted the page. This was due to using full size images of around
10-30kb for each item (although resized in the HTML to look smaller) with
numerous items per page. While this made it really quick to click on an
image and get a larger one, since it infact had already been loaded, it took
forever to get the full page. I've now made thumbnails (about 2-3kb each)
for all of the CAD generated images, and this seems to have helped.
2. Are the full size images too large? Currently all of the CAD images are
at 640x480. Some of the pieces look quite large at this resolution. Should
I be using 320x240? The actual photo images are all different sizes, I may
take new pictures to have them all uniform.
3. Is the site easy to navigate? It seems pretty straight-forward and
intuitive to me, but then I know where everything is. Is it easy to find
parts?
4. Is the color schme OK? I kinda like it. :) But then that is a biased
opinion!
5. Inventory changes frequently. I have my browser set to always check for
newer pages, but this is not the default. I fear some people may not be
getting the latest pages if they visit frequently. I know there is a way to
set a page so that it won't be stored in the cache, thus will always be new.
I can't remember how to do this though, so if someone could refresh MY
memory, I would appreciate it. More importantly, SHOULD I do this? Will it
aggrevate people to always have to get the page from the server, thus
increasing load time?
Thanks for your time,
Troy
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) when (...) took (...) I have a high-bandwidth connection at home and at work. However, the first time I went to the site (at work), it did seem quite slow. When I tried it just now from home, it was much better. (...) are (...) Should (...) (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Load time on my website
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| (...) It is a lot better now than it was before, but still a little slow. Acceptable, though. And really cool design, imo. If you had the kind of ordering interface I am hoping to develop for my own site it would be perfect. (...) I just looked at (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Load time on my website
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| (...) just add a '<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT=//date//>' at the top. You can tell browses that it expires in 5 minutes, in an hour, in a day - whatever. Dan (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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