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Please can you spare 2 clicks of your mouse? (Need a very quick favour)
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2 secs and 4 secs for me on a 20meg connection running Win 7 and Firefox.
Similar on the iphone.
Oddly 4 secs and 2 secs on Chrome (all other things equal).
I'd also like to say how good it's looking Andy.
And all the traffic will help your rankings too
Thanks mate... and sssshhh stop telling everyone the real reason I'm getting people to click the links
That's a joke btw everyone
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Bugger... that's definitely far too long!
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Thanks for testing it... looks like you're ok then... just a few people are still struggling so I'll probably reduce the file sizes of the pics a bit and see how that works
Dreadfully slow (on a good connection) - your "web developer" has obviously forgotten the basics of web design - pages should load fast, even for those with a slightly less than the fastest connection - sod's law says the client you really want will be on a poor connection, who will give up and go elsewhere.........
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We're all quick to blame the web developer here, but there are some people in here who are having no problems with the site despite being on relatively average connections. If the problems resided with the web development, surely it would be slow for everyone? The images load faster than I can possibly scroll down to view them here, and I'm on an average DSL connection. As for the others who seem to have problems, it could be anything... IP routing, DNS issues... anything. Why assume it's the web design?
I'd be concerned with how fast it is over 3G/4G as that's clearly always going to be the tough nut to crack with a content rich website.
I'd be concerned with how fast it is over 3G/4G as that's clearly always going to be the tough nut to crack with a content rich website.
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They've told me to make the image file sizes smaller and put less images on each job so hopefully if I do that it'll run quicker.
Problem is reducing file sizes reduces resolution so it's going to be a juggling act to get it right I feel
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That's the odd thing IMO... Some on slower connections are having no issues? I'll try lower res files and see how that works.
It needs to be fast for everyone as anyone finding it slow may go elsewhere and then it's lost business / income
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Both pages loaded near-instantaneous but the images in the second link took about 40-50 seconds to finish loading (couldn't be precise because I had to scroll up and down to check whether all had downloaded). Tested again with 'Terry & Mark's' page - similar results.
Tested connection as 13.75 Mbps (give or take 0.05) before and after loading your pages. Wired connection running Firefox on Ubuntu with sufficient hardware; email client and several other browser tabs running simultaneously (as they were when the speed-tests were run).
Given the number and size of the images, I didn't feel that the page loaded especially slow (but not fast either).
Tested connection as 13.75 Mbps (give or take 0.05) before and after loading your pages. Wired connection running Firefox on Ubuntu with sufficient hardware; email client and several other browser tabs running simultaneously (as they were when the speed-tests were run).
Given the number and size of the images, I didn't feel that the page loaded especially slow (but not fast either).
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Interestingly just tried it at home on the iPad and rubbish 2mb..
Both links the main page loads around 15s. However the images take forever. Plus after about 40s they stop loading completely, no Internet traffic at all. The images just don't load after that. Both links.
Both links the main page loads around 15s. However the images take forever. Plus after about 40s they stop loading completely, no Internet traffic at all. The images just don't load after that. Both links.
