I was wondering if there is anyway to detect and redirect visitors by internet connection speed? I have noticed that my sites entrance bounce rate is almost exactly the same as the % of my sites visitors that have non high speed connections......around 30% Its my guess that those on dial up are not liking to wait for the home page to load and are leaving before its done loading (MSLS script) I have added zlip compression, optimized my database, removed the rating and search functions, and optimized the css and image sizes ect....... Is there anyway I can add a script or code that will detect my visitors connection speed and redirect those on slower connections to a lighter faster loading page.....not looking to redirect high speed users or search engines or anything black hat like that just those on slower connections........
Interesting question. I've never done this before. If I need to do this I'd try to get the page to first run a javascript that loads an image to test the speed. If it takes too long do a redirect to homepage light.
Using an image isn't really a solution, they would still have to wait for the image to load, and then be redirected once it was loaded, I don't think ppl would appreciate that too much. I would just make a lofi version of your pages, echo the least amount of content possible with no images onto them, and use a static link somewhere near the top of the page ( so vistitors see it ) to the lofi version of your site, then the user can choose what to do while waiting for the original page to load.
Ask your visitors before loading the page is what i would do, or you can as suggested use an image, but there is lots of variables to take into account so it would have to be a rather large image, and probably not worth the hassle!
yea the site that I am wanting to do this for runs off a one of a kind script that is a great script but it is a little slow and takes at least 8 seconds to load on a 3 meg connection even though i have optimized everything the best I can but it has quite a bit of code to load i think like 60k worth of code alone even with compression......