Dr Peter Young <pnyo...@ormail.co.uk> wrote: [snip]
> This is with RISC OS 5.14 and NetSurf r9677 and broadband. > > The BBC sites in general seem to be getting more and more bloated. The BBC > front page, which I have as my home page, with its 100+ images (really > needed?) takes 25 seconds or so to load, and I can no longer edit it > significantly. It takes quite a time to load in Windows Firefox, too, > though I haven't timed it. NetSurf r9677 on OS5.14 takes 13.5s to load the BBC's home page and 9.5s to load my post code weather page :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/4290?area=CM15 > I've given up on the BBC weather sites, for just the reason that Gerald > mentions. The Metcheck sites (try > http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/today.asp?zipcode=GL52%203DS for > instance) seem to work better, though this had just taken 35 seconds to > load, but hasn't made huge inroads into memory. 6.2s here. Nice site though. Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows 7 Ultimate takes about 2-3s to reach the BBC's home page, that is with a 2*2GHz processor. Snow Leopard is all but instant running on a 2*3.06GHz processor. > I suspect this is all the fault of the BBC web-people, but I wonder what > the experts have to say? Given the general slowness reported I would have doubts about Peter's broadband speed. I get about 6000kb/s and Firefox 3.5.5 downloaded at over 700kB/s. -- David Pitt MessengerPro on iMac, Snow Leopard
