"Do you wait for pages to load?"
by Azam Corry
Though I always recommend that you design your pages to load as
fast as possible, just as I do with my own, I actually never wait
for pages to load when I'm surfing. However, statistics abound
that show that most people do wait, since it's the #1 reason for
people leaving a web site. With that in mind, it occurred to me
that obviously most people don't surf the way I do, otherwise,
page load times wouldn't be such an issue.
I don't wait for pages to load simply because I always surf with
between 2 - 4 browser windows open at once. Why doesn't everyone
else do that? It saves so much time! Now I know I have an unfair
advantage over most of you because I use a Mac, but even Windoze
(Oops! Did I really say that? :-) machines will let you keep
several windows active at once.
If you have a small monitor and you find you don't have enough
room on the screen, just use 2 windows that overlap completely
except for a small sliver across the bottom and down one side.
This means whichever window is at the back, there will always be
enough of it visible for you to click on and bring it to the
font.
Alternatively you can minimize a window to the bottom of the
screen. It will continue to load, even though you're not looking
at it. If you run a Mac, just double click on the top frame of
the window for it to shoot up like a roller blind, leaving only
the title bar visible. Double click on it to open again.
You can either view pages from different sites in different
windows, or different pages from the same site, or a combination
of the two.
Or what about this: You know the situation, you're reading an
interesting paragraph and you come upon a text link. You want to
keep reading so you probably decide to come back to it when
you've finished - a real pain if the piece ends on the next page!
If you have your windows open on the screen at the same time (as
opposed to collapsed) you can really take advantage of these text
links with ease. Just highlight the link, click on it and without
releasing the mouse, drag the link into another window, where the
page will quietly open whilst you continue with your reading!
If you only have one window open at this point, not to worry.
Simply right click on the link (click and hold for a moment on a
Mac) and a menu will pop up. Scroll down the menu and select
"open link in new window" (MSIE) or "new window with url" (NAV).
If you're not already surfing with multiple windows, you really
should, it will save you an awful lot of time. And time is money!
Here's an example of how much time you might be wasting:
Generally, I average about 4 hours a day online. Assume I spend
an average of 5 minutes on each page (many pages will get much
less of my time. If I don't find something that interests me
after a quick 30 second 'overview scan', I'm gone. On interesting
pages, which are far less frequent, I will spend considerably
longer).
So, 4 x 60 = 240 minutes online each day, divided by 5 mins/page ==>Average of 48 pages visited a day.*
Now, lets say the average of all page load times is 20sec. ==>48 pages x 20sec = 960sec or 16 minutes wasted each day!
I'm often online every day, so that's almost 2hrs a week!
And I pay for both the telephone call and the ISP access charge!!
I can't afford to waste up to 100hrs a year waiting for pages to
load...
Can you?
*According to Nielsen/NetRatings, the average surfer spends
approximately 3 hours online per week, during which time, he or
she views an average of about 40 Web pages.
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