The front page of the Georgia Sports Blog has ballooned to more than 600k with all the pics and what not. That's way too big, and it's slowing down performance a bit for some of you with weaker connections. There hasn't been any complaining yet, but I think that's mostly b/c the site's content loads faster than some of the graphics. Regardless, I've noticed the slow down.
If you access the site from DawgBone.net or an RSS reader, you probably haven't noticed the problem. A single page / article should still load incredibly quickly.
Last week, I started shrinking the site initial size of the post-game photos a bit to help with this problem. It improve the speed some, but I'll probably shrink them even more next week. That should fix it. You'll still get to see Jim Hipple's pictures in their full file size by clicking on them, but the thumbnails will be smaller.
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Paul Westerdawg
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4 comments:
Any possible way to have a redirect to a pictureless version of this site for those of us who, on occasion, view this site from a palm?
red - not that I know of.
That's a little beyond my geekitude.
Just a suggestion, but on the post when you put Hipple's photos up, can you use a jump or a more tag? This way the pictures aren't even on the front page and you click a link to see the full post, and thus the pictures.
Chris, I had that functionality for a while, but I lost it in the most recent upgrade. The hack to bring that feature back is less than elegant.
I'm waiting on the template builder to update his technology to support the new Blogger XML functionality. Then I'll bring the "peekaboo" post back.
B/c you're right. That will dramatically speed things up.
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