Hey, Me and my friend are working on this discussion board as a forum, and it lists all the Posts in a row on one single page. The last few days there have been around 400-500 new posts a day, we are using the message board as a FAQ sort of for this project, and now all the posts are up, but its about 4000 posts on one single page. When google came and cached the page yesterday, it stopped according to the cache file about 1/5 of the way through, now today it is back and the new cache file didnt even cache all the way to yesterdays posts, only caching about 1/10 of the entire page. It takes about 15 seconds to fully load the entire page on a cable modem, could that be the problem? I would think now that the new posts stop and it stays static, google would be able to cache the entire page and follow the links, but im just not sure if we should completely scrap it and use a different message board thats breaks the messages up into sets of 20-30. It is on his school message board so this is the software we had to use. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks. Joe.
I have some thoughts, yes. If it takes 15 seconds to load over cable modem how long does it take over dial-up?
Not sure, I would guess a while. I wouldnt think google is on a dial up connection though, so I would think they would still be able to cache the entire thing. Oh well i'll cross my fingers and hope it can crawl the entire page.
My point is how to you expect your visitors who might be on dial-up to view the page if it takes so long over a dial-up connection.