Comments on: Does page size matter anymore?

By: Monty Loree

Monty Loree — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:46:56 +0000

For users… load time is important.
I’m always concerned with the google spider timing out with a page load.

If the spiders don’t like the page, the user’s not going to see the page.

By: ogletree

ogletree — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:03:32 +0000

You are right. I think I read another article that talked about internet users and was only talking about internet users. This one does not say. I guess they do mean a % of all people lving in urban or rural. The point of that article was to say more and more people are getting on broadband which is a good thing. I read too much into the article. Everybody seem to have differnt numbers on this. It is really not that diffacult to find out. Just run a report on your log files you can tell in the hosts section which visitors are on broadband and whcih or dail up most the time. I would actually like to know what percentage of AOL users have broad band. On the site that was 1.5 MB and had 66 objects there was 1899 visitors that generated 7891 hits from AOL. That means AOL users only loaded 4 objects on average on a 66 object page.

By: tpiddy

tpiddy — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:35:59 +0000

i agree that page size on landing pages matter to some extent. i have one client who INSISTS on many huge pictures and it kills me.

i think you are miss reading the statistics in the article though. 39% of all urban people have broadband, you are reading it as 39% of all urban people with home internet access have broadband. theres a large portion of urban people who do not have any internet access at home for various reasons, and 1/5 people in the US never use the web or e-mail! But those with internet in the US, over 50% have broadband.

In the EU it may still be less than 50% of personal ISP subscribers have broadband.