Comments on: Optimizing your web site. http://www.nsharp.org/09/optimizing-and-digg-proofing-your-web-site/ n# Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:17:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Theena http://www.nsharp.org/09/optimizing-and-digg-proofing-your-web-site/#comment-1283 Theena Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:42:11 +0000 http://www.nsharp.org/09/optimizing-and-digg-proofing-your-web-site/#comment-1283 Can you recommend any host in particular? I am looking at Dream Host and was told their service was pretty good. Can you recommend any host in particular? I am looking at Dream Host and was told their service was pretty good.

]]> By: janantha http://www.nsharp.org/09/optimizing-and-digg-proofing-your-web-site/#comment-1282 janantha Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:08:47 +0000 http://www.nsharp.org/09/optimizing-and-digg-proofing-your-web-site/#comment-1282 All good.. I think saving image in a format that supports progressive loading (e.g. PNG and also JPEG does it as well) will some what keep the user intact for few seconds even on dialup because the image is loaded in pixels not as a whole.. about the caching thing. If the site is getting updated regularly caching timeout should be set to a low value. otherwise users will get the old stuff. :) Also if your site is a text based site rather than more graphical one. Provide the user with a RSS feed. So the user can read it using a client. Text loads faster than images :) Also never use flash unless you really want to! Also there might be a slight lag between PHP processed pages Vs the Raw HTML once. As php needs processing and fetching from DB it will have few mili seconds added to the latency. So if your site only contains 3-4 pages and rarely needs updating stick to a template and use HTML with CSS. But i guess the servers nowadays are powerful that you really don't feel the difference. All good.. I think saving image in a format that supports progressive loading (e.g. PNG and also JPEG does it as well) will some what keep the user intact for few seconds even on dialup because the image is loaded in pixels not as a whole..

about the caching thing. If the site is getting updated regularly caching timeout should be set to a low value. otherwise users will get the old stuff. :)
Also if your site is a text based site rather than more graphical one. Provide the user with a RSS feed. So the user can read it using a client. Text loads faster than images :)
Also never use flash unless you really want to! Also there might be a slight lag between PHP processed pages Vs the Raw HTML once. As php needs processing and fetching from DB it will have few mili seconds added to the latency. So if your site only contains 3-4 pages and rarely needs updating stick to a template and use HTML with CSS.

But i guess the servers nowadays are powerful that you really don’t feel the difference.

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