John Porter [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>Yes; but I'm not talking about the freshness, mainly.
*>I'm talking about the fact that the site is a dog.
*>As in, dog slow. The page layout "design" is bletcherous,
*>but it wouldn't bother me so much if it would load in a snappy
*>manner. That box has always been slow. www.perl.com should
*>be transplanted to new hardware. Or maybe it's the pipe (or
*>should I say pipecleaner?) it's hanging from; I can't tell.
*>It's one or the other.
Site performance metrics are hard to get with any real value to them. I
don't find the site slow, but then again I might be more patient, have a
faster connection, faster client, be getting a better route from my
provider, etc. The best a site can do is make sure they have performance
covered to the point where it exits their network and after that they have
no control over it. Also, I might add that rarely does a website need a
'faster box' since many, if not most, websites depend mostly on I/O and
network speed rather than compute power.
If you are really having that much trouble with it, you might try and
quanitfy your observations and send them along to the webmaster.
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