Thanks for everyone's thoughts on around this topic. I enjoyed reading your comments.
Incase anyone's interested I highly recommend Yahoo!'s yslow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ its a great tool for performance issues around this topic. Right now my goal is to always have the site I'm building be under 3 seconds loading, 200ms processing. --- Neil Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Normally I work to a rule of around 2 seconds > perceived time before > stuff starts appearing on the page with everything > else appearing in > the next two. > > The thing with page loads aren't anything to do with > ms duration in > CF, but the perception by the user. The user does > give a t*ss what > the server, code, or anything else are doing to > achieve that. > > That said, if you can't manage 4-5 seconds, distract > the user with > something else (ASCII Porn?). > > Neil > > On 20 Jan 2008, at 08:34, Nate Willard wrote: > > > Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts. > > > > How many milliseconds should it take for a site's > home > > page to load? > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:297042 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4