Now this is a website! 1

[iSeriesCodePoet]

I noticed this webiste (

http://www.speedypuppy.com/)

from a banner ad and decided to click on it. It popped up immediatly! I was shocked. Navigating their site is awesome, every page instantly shows up! With little to no loading time. I am using Netscape 7. Mike Wills
IBM iSeries (AS/400) Programmer

http://www.koldark.net

 

[xutopia]

that is fast indeed! even on dialup and I am in France!

wanna know why it's so fast? they use GZIP before sending files. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[carolynwright]

what is Gzip?
Thanks.
Carolyn

 

[Wullie]

Hi all,

The main page is only about 10k in total, so it is always likely to load fast.

A few of the pages took about 2 seconds to load for me, using frames that is not so fast on a cable modem.

The pages hardly have any graphics on them either.

Oh, and I think they might need to check out the colours on the features pages, black on dark blue doesn't go too good.

Hope this helps Wullie

sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[cian]

Yeah, fairly fast but as Wullie said, there's shag all graphics, and the pages are quite small.

Design wise, its quite average.


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[y2k1981]

I agree with cian, it's navigable, but it looks dull. And like Cian also said, there's hardly any images, the links on the left are just table datas.

 

[xutopia]

gzip is exactly what happens when you zip a file. A zipped text file can reduce its size to 5% of it's original size(usually varies between 45% and 95% though).

The server actually takes the file sitting on the server and zip them before sending them. The browser then receives that file much faster because less bytes have to travel online. The browser then unzips the file before your eyes.
Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Many are commenting about the design. The way I see it, simple pages can get your point across just as easily as complicated pages. The only difference is the simple ones load faster. Mike Wills
IBM iSeries (AS/400) Programmer

http://www.koldark.net

 

[sera]

I agree with Koldark. I am often annoyed when I see busy websites with complex graphics. When I go to a website I want to go straight to whatever I am looking for, not be innundated with lots of cool web tricks. This site has a really efficient and simple design and I for one really like it. Even though I do agree with Wullie about the features page, it is difficult to see the text against that dark blue.

**Side Note: I think the most annoying website on the internet is yahoo.com...it makes me insane to even open it!

Sera
I often believe that...
My computer is possessed!

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

They have a front page? Oh ya... I guess they do. I so rarely go there. My serch engine is Google, and anything within Yahoo I go directly there. Mike Wills
IBM iSeries (AS/400) Programmer

http://www.koldark.net

 

[Wullie]

Koldark

My comments were regarding the load time, not the design of the site.

It is obvious that a site using frames with little or no graphics and only really text on the page will load quick.

Hope this helps Wullie

sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[RISTMO]

First of all, I've seen sites that were a lot faster...and many more that were MUCH slower;-). I'm wondering if I understand you correctly about the Gzip. Are you saying that I can have a Gzipped 500K .bmp image that will load just as fast as a 50K JPG because of compression to 10%? If so, SHOW ME HOW TO DO IT!!!

Rick

 

[xutopia]

RISTMO,

If you have Winzip installed you will notice that compressing 500k images might save you quite a bit of space. An html file however being text is usually way more compressed than images are.

I did a test with a 1 meg bmp file. It zipped to be 348kb. I did the same with an html file that I bloated with one meg of data. It compressed to be 3 kilobytes. Of course this is all very much dependent on what kind of data you have. Another 1 Meg BMP (this time just a big yellow image) compressed to be only 2.21kb.

gzip does allow you to have substantial speed increase. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[RISTMO]

I don't usually use bmp images, but I can think of a few places it would be nice to have that option. Maybe for bgmusic. So, I pretty much just gzip the file (using winzip?) and upload it to the directory, then I call it by imagename.gzip? I just don't understand how the browser would know to unzip it. Am I missing something?

Rick

 

[xutopia]

oh god. Sorry I am confusing people.

When the browsers ask for a page it sends data on what mime types it understands. All 4.0 browsers send to servers a message stating they understand gzip. Most servers send the data in gzip form but it is transparent. You don't see it happening. Zipping your files manually would not work in this case. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[Wullie]

Gary,

I have to clarify a few points here..

1) Not all servers have gzip installed, *nix boxes do, Windows doesn't straight from the box.

2) Personally, I haven't worked with gzip, but is it not only certain compressed files that work, as opposed to any file? Wullie

sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[xutopia]

all files work as far as I know. But most administrators don't bother compressing certain types of files like huge .rar or .zip files because it would be useless. Indeed gzip does need explicit server side configuration. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran