Monday,
March 20, 2003 12:40 PM
Hurry Up And Wait!!
by TRU - AfroChicks
Have you ever been to a drive thru joint and the person taking
the order is slow as hell and there are 2 or 3 cars in front
of you and just abort and find somewhere else to eat. Surfers
do the same thing when they reach a site that takes forever
to load. Broadband Internet service is becoming available
to more homes everyday, but there are still many people out
there using 56k dial-up connections.
Its important when designing websites, tgp galleries, tours
you take into consideration the amount of time it takes for
a surfer on 56k to load the page. I remember years ago when
I was surfing porn on a 56k connection if I hit a site that
was slow I’d close the window and move on to something
else because it was taking to long to load. When that surfer
leaves a potential sale may have been lost. and they probably
will not be book marking your site.
Another thing that can slow your sites down is having a host
that does not have enough resources to support the sites that
they are hosting. When I was playing the virtual hosting game
I was using a hosting company that had great prices, I loaded
my sites up and got down to business. I started getting rejected
by major TGP sites for the following reason "Page loads
too slowly". So I was needless to say I was with that
host for about 2 days.
I’ve seen numerous tgp submissions where the thumb
sizes are the true size of the image to be displayed; a thumb
with a size of 60k takes as long to load as the full sized
image. Which causes the gallery to load slowly as hell, the
surfer my bounce off to another gallery and it’s a waste
of bandwidth. Optimizing images can reduce that 60k image
down to a thumb less that 10% of the original size.
When you’re designing your html keep and eye on your
load times, and don't think that just because your shit is
pretty they will wait. The game is very simple they want porn
and we want loot.
Peace & Make That Loot!!!!!!!!!!
- Tru
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