Don't make your site too slow for new visitors!

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: Don't make your site too slow for new visitors!

http://www.websiteoptimization.co...url=http://forum.myfreeforum.org/ Note that on a Modem even the support forum is going to take more than 12 seconds to load first time. But I have seen some forums today with humongous graphics We keep the image quotas on the template low for a reason and we would probably be doing everyone a favour if we lowered them more! People will not sit around for minutes waiting for a site to load. Make sure you use gif/png or much preferably jpg graphics, and optimise your graphics here: http://www.gifworks.com/cgi-bin/g...;amp;startcolors=10&site= Your prospective members will appreciate it, and for that matter so will our servers _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject:

heres mine: is it a good result _________________ Lil Wayne Forum lilwaynehq.com/forums

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject:

If you think a potential page load time of almost a minute is good, then I suggest you look at a clock for a minute and see just how long that is. People will not wait that long. I am currently trying to reduce the support forum page size and we are less than a quarter of your page size! _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject:

okay then thanks i will try and make the page load quicker _________________ Lil Wayne Forum lilwaynehq.com/forums

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject:

Well our index page keeps inside 30kb now Down from 37kb! A 20% speed increase the people seeing the site for the first time. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject:

would it be better if we took that banner from underneath the main logo down (my forum is in my sig) - would it make a big difference or a small one thanks _________________ Lil Wayne Forum lilwaynehq.com/forums

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject:

MINE: _________________ Call me the "code slave"! The HARDCORE GAMER!

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:03 pm Post subject:

As part of this exercise I have made our main sites 30%-40% smaller, it will be interesting to see if this effects the number people signing on. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:51 am Post subject:

They need to run their test on their own site. first time my computer crash, Next time I clicked the link couldn't find server. 3 rd the charm, took longer then 10 seconds to load and it still didn't load. _________________ My Day of Defeat Source Server Been here for 2 years TemplateTester and Link Exchange

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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:22 am Post subject:

This is the reading for my site, is it good or average. Knowing my luck its bad. http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php Sorry still don't know how to take screen shots. _________________ http://flightsimforum.myfanforum.org/index.php

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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:34 am Post subject:

link does not return data for your site. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:07 am Post subject:

How do you run the test on your own forum? _________________ http://gearsofwar.myfreeforum.org/

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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:09 am Post subject:

http://www.websiteoptimization.co...nalyze/wso.php?url=FORUM_URL_HERE Replace 'FORUM_URL_HERE' with the link to your website, e.g. http://forum.myfreeforum.org _________________

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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject:

admin (no pm's please) wrote:

link does not return data for your site.

Sorry Admin, i can't get the link to work so i will just copy and paste it.

Spoiler:

I hope thats ok and can be understood.
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject:

Heres for my site (not my forum, just my website): _________________ 24Forum.net