I agree. Most of the web surfers I run into are pretty impatient ...
if a site doesn't load pretty quickly, they're off the next and have
forgotten about it.
It's why I try to keep my web images a reasonable size when I post
simple JPEGs for the PESOs, i keep my website pages small. It's why I
use flickr.com ... despite other shortcomings, I find it loads pretty
fast, reliably. (BTW, there's a nice little flickr browsing app for
the iPhone/iPod Touch that makes it even nicer to wander through a
gallery of photos. "Klick" ... I believe it's free.)
It's not just a matter of hosting and fast servers. The whole system
has to be tuned to obtain good performance.
Godfrey
On Apr 25, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
The main reason I subscribe, not that I want to disparage the wit &
witticisms, nor indeed the hardware lore, is those every-so-often
things, you know, with pixels in them. It's like they used to say
about Playboy mag: I just read it for the pictures.
But: I'm impatient. So whatever your hosting setup is, if I click on
the PESO link and the screen on my browser doesn't have a picture on
it Pretty Damn Quick, I'm not waiting. For those of you have personal
audiences who'll wait for your crippled-wombat-driven server because
they're your Mom or boyfriend or grad student or whatever, that's
fine, but if you're trying to build an audience (and I acknowledge
that many aren't, and that's fine), you just gotta have a snappy
server. My time is my most precious commodity.
Good hosting is pretty cheap these days. -T
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