I'm not sure if it's been getting worse lately or if I've just been getting less and less patient, but loat times on the forums are consistently poor. I get about 8K/s from the site on my dsl (I get much more from most sites), and the html itself is so inefficient that each post, no matter how small, and not counting the images, is at least 7K. This means that loading a SINGLE page of posts (50 posts per page; with fewer posts, it would be even slower overall, since I'd have more overhead with the top and bottom of the page, which alone is 23K) can literally take minutes.
Needless to say, I thought the days of waiting minutes for web pages to load was over, especially ones that are principally text.
I understand some web servers can gzip pages as they're delivered (and most web browsers can gunzip them), which would reduce the size of these pages tremendously since the html is so repetitive. Possibly AT could try that? I'm really getting tired of being able to read the shorter posts faster than they download.
-=Marcus
Needless to say, I thought the days of waiting minutes for web pages to load was over, especially ones that are principally text.
I understand some web servers can gzip pages as they're delivered (and most web browsers can gunzip them), which would reduce the size of these pages tremendously since the html is so repetitive. Possibly AT could try that? I'm really getting tired of being able to read the shorter posts faster than they download.
-=Marcus
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