I have been looking at the codes and tidying them up, unfortunately I think I haven't been doing a good job. Could any one load and comment on http://hyipblog.nobshyip.net/ and let me know how you feel about the site in terms of colors, the ads placements and most importantly, the speed of loading the site on your browser (IE, Firefox or whichever) Appreciate the help J
Ads and colors look good. Loading is horrible. I'm on DSL and it probably took my 5 seconds to load it. The white background was the last to load, that probably should have been one of the first. Is it an image or a hex code?
white background should be hex. lol, i'll work on them. saw a few optimisation that i should work on, especially on the images and css file sizes. thanks Fewski
it's slow for me with firefox. and i don't like design too. i can't concentrate to text. The date image is too bright.
20 files totalling 108k JUST for what should only be 18k of HTML in a single file - yeah, you could call that slow loading. Add the 38 images to that, 12 scripts and four stylesheets, and it's a total /FAIL/ for such a simple layout. Not that it's all that correctable being that the site is little more than a digg mimic, all those .js files calling digg.com/tools/digthis.php directly resulting in waiting not just on your own server for the 50 odd files your page consists of, but at least 30+ instances of pinging digg.com as well. Each of those 'requests' resulting in half a second or more of handshaking, it would be surprising to see the page load in less than 30 seconds on broadband. I mean seriously, 28k of CSS for THAT?!? 27k of Scripts? I don't even want to think about accessing that page on dialup where handshaking can take >1 second per file before you even get to the bandwidth needed for 274k (325k uncompressed) transfer.
128k/s net firefox took about 5-10 seconds, not that bad really; Color looks fine to me, nice and simple; Ads blend well and (hurray) there isn't too many!
You must be damned near on top of their server to have ping times that low? My own ping to that server comes in around 550ms to his server and 55ms to Digg from Dublin, NH meaning the MINIMUM time regardless of my connection speed (4mbps/768kbps DSL) should be somewhere around 50 seconds JUST on handshaking alone - that's BEFORE we figure in the actual transfer time. Out of curiousity, ping his location? I'd be interested to see your ping times because for a five second page load you'd have to be down in the 20ms range.
I'd be fine-tuning this to ask for a review later again, probably by tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Thanks for the valuable feedbacks
Hmm a question, consider me a noob, but what digg mimic are you talking about? is there anything I can do on my end to do this? Remove the digg plugin?
Detailed report from my location: Left to right: Time to first byte - Time to completion - Page size - Number of requests. Left to right: Status code - Size. 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about the same as everyone my load time was 5.78 seconds. I really like the design, don't know if you have changed it since the above feedback but I really like it. very clean