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from the Editor:
Well, its been a month since the last email newsletter. Sorry
that we have not been able to get you the latest from Intl
Wholesale.com. Now that the summer vacations are coming to an
end and we are all back to work full force, we hope to support your
web development needs.
Soon we
will be offering new upgrade skins for our websites to give our
customers a larger selection. If you are an existing website
owner, you will be given a chance to upgrade your skin at a special
rate.
If you
have any newsworthy information you think might benefit our members,
please send us your insight and it may be posted to our weekly
newsletters.
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Content
Factors That Make Your Site Crawl
By
Mark Bailey
Given the time and trouble
it takes to get a site up on the Web, one would think that
most sites would be designed with quick performance and
usability in mind. Fortunately, some are; remarkably, some
still are not. I'd like to present a few examples here of
both the good and the bad, in order to highlight how
implementing good practices when building a site will help
make sure users don't doze off while waiting for your site
to load. But first, consider the main content factors
affecting site performance.
Content Factors That Affect
Site Performance
Here is a list of things
that affect site performance, and therefore affect down
load times.
File Size
A commonly accepted size for page
content (images and text) is 40
kilobytes (KB) . It is not uncommon for sites
to be around 100 KB (for instance,
drugstore.com's), but the
fastest-loading sites, such as Yahoo!'s,
are even smaller than 40 KB. Obviously, carefully managing
page file sizes will help keep your site download time
speedy.
Locally vs. Remotely
Stored Image Content
When images are stored on a
remote server (a server other than the one serving up most
of the page), the entire
URL request process takes place to obtain
those images (for example, TCP/IP handshaking, page
setup, content access and transfer, and so on). This
process is subject to delays that occur between the remote
and local servers, which invariably result in slow
download times. So whenever possible, store your images
locally. For example,
Amazon.com is a
fast-loading site. Part of the reason is that Amazon has
minimized the remote image content on its pages.
Flash Animation and
Embedded Objects
Flash has a pretty
bad reputation among Web performance experts: Search
engine ranking experts say it can be detrimental to
getting sites indexed by search engine spiders; usability
experts talk of how frustrating it can be for the user;
and I'm going to tell you it can slow your site download
time to a crawl. Use it judiciously, if at all.
Third-Party Components
(Such as Banner Ads)
As is the case with remotely
served images, third-party components on your Web page
(for example, content served from Web servers other than
your own, such as a banner ads) can be hazardous to
download speed. You can only monitor the performance of
your own server(s); you have no control over remote
servers where the banner ads are located.
You can evaluate how well your
own site follows these four guidelines by using
WebPartner's free
Instacheck
tool. Aside from generating a snapshot view of site data
that compares your site's download time to the download
times of WebPartner's Top 30 index of e-commerce sites,
Instacheck will generate graphs of file sizes and download
times by component (text, images, applets, or embedded
objects), to help you determine which parts of your Web
site are slowing your page download times.
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Learn From the Good and
the Bad
You can learn from
examples of good sites and from bad sites. Here's a few
examples.
First, the Good
Two sites that represent
effective use of content in regard to site performance are
Yahoo! and
Lands' End Inc.
Because the former is an information site, it is therefore
richer in text than in images. Measuring in at only about
24 KB total content (including both images and text) for
its home page, Yahoo!'s site is a master example of
minimalism. Consequently, Yahoo!'s simple but informative
home page loads consistently fast, which hasn't hurt its
popularity any.
E-tailing naturally relies on
images to show products. An example of a fast-loading
e-commerce site is Lands' End's site. With a home page
that contains only 20 KB of text and 50 KB of images, this
site pares content down to the essentials. In addition,
one can see from the page source code that Lands' End also
uses
Akamai (a service that
stores a site's content at widely dispersed geographical
locations) to cache content closer to users, further
increasing download speed.
Now, the Bad
I'm not going to name names with
these two examples of what not to do, but I can tell you
that one site is a Web site design firm's site, the other
a small specialty-foods site.
In the case of the design firm,
excessive use of Flash animation makes for slow download
times. The results from WebPartner's Instacheck for the
home page of this site showed that with 165 KB of remotely
stored and 100 KB of locally stored embedded objects, the
tested page takes an average of 24 seconds to download for
home users and 11 seconds for business users.
Our second example is a
specialty-food retailer whose 330 KB of images smothered
the 36 KB of text content, to cause average download times
of over 40 seconds for home users and 20 seconds for
business users. Granted, this site was not professionally
designed, but by employing too many images and failing to
optimize them, it serves as an illustration of how
excessive image use can severely increase download time.
You've no doubt
put a lot of thought into what graphics and text you want
to put on your site. Now put a little extra thought into
the content factors that affect your site's download
performance. Your extra effort will result in shorter
download times and a big payoff when it comes to customer
retention.
The views of our authors don' t necessarily
reflect the views and policies of this company or its
advertisers.
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