Tuesday
Feb052008
Festina Lente
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 9:49PM
*Hasten Slowly*, in the Latin.
A conversation with Jaxn tonight got me thinking: How 'fast' are the sites of the top 10 'shopping' sites (per Alexa)?
So I measured them. At first, it was a simple matter of emptying my cache and loading each site. But many sites, understanding how important it is to get things moving quickly, used some sort of onLoad function to do some more loading without screwing up the user's experience. To facilitate those, and not penalize them, I took a screenshot of the measurements as soon as the progress bar filled and the site was useable.
A conversation with Jaxn tonight got me thinking: How 'fast' are the sites of the top 10 'shopping' sites (per Alexa)?
So I measured them. At first, it was a simple matter of emptying my cache and loading each site. But many sites, understanding how important it is to get things moving quickly, used some sort of onLoad function to do some more loading without screwing up the user's experience. To facilitate those, and not penalize them, I took a screenshot of the measurements as soon as the progress bar filled and the site was useable.
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