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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6498609" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>Right now, I would say the site is at its snappiest (for me). Loading a page takes roughly six seconds, and my best guesstimate is that about one of those seconds is spent on waiting for "mikle", "static facebook" and a few other calls I haven't been able to shut down. This is still a vast improvement.</p><p></p><p>This is very much a best case: At the opposite end, I'm reading the site from my phone, where I can't install any of this. Loading each page takes easily 15-18 seconds, more than half seemingly waiting for the sidebars to fill after the actual content has already been loaded.</p><p></p><p>In-between would be accessing the site in the evenings (my time, it's morning now). </p><p></p><p>I was polite when I didn't bring up "exact" numbers (I'm afraid it's all guesstimates, but still), and I was polite when I didn't want to spell out how absolutely vital it is for my general internet experience to be able to outright deny you and other sites the possibility to push unwanted crap onto my browser.</p><p></p><p>I'm trying not to be sarcastic here. I came here honestly trying to make it clear to you that you have a serious bloat issue. Not everyone is tech savvy enough to fix this themselves. But more importantly, nobody should need to be. I guess I need to spell this out for you.</p><p></p><p>You should have tested your own design and arrived at the conclusion "there really needs to be a way to shut down this extra information for times when you don't need it, for times when you have a slow internet connection, when you're stick at an old computer, et cetera".</p><p></p><p>Just hiding it is a poor man's design solution. Those little arrows do very little in my opinion: the screen estate is still wasted (they replace the feed bars with empty space, rather than something useful, like, say, a wider forum reading area), and they certainly don't cut off the web requests to actually speed up the page loading. </p><p></p><p>Thank you for reading, Umbran. I sincerely hope you appreciate me being direct and forthcoming, just like you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 6498609, member: 12731"] Right now, I would say the site is at its snappiest (for me). Loading a page takes roughly six seconds, and my best guesstimate is that about one of those seconds is spent on waiting for "mikle", "static facebook" and a few other calls I haven't been able to shut down. This is still a vast improvement. This is very much a best case: At the opposite end, I'm reading the site from my phone, where I can't install any of this. Loading each page takes easily 15-18 seconds, more than half seemingly waiting for the sidebars to fill after the actual content has already been loaded. In-between would be accessing the site in the evenings (my time, it's morning now). I was polite when I didn't bring up "exact" numbers (I'm afraid it's all guesstimates, but still), and I was polite when I didn't want to spell out how absolutely vital it is for my general internet experience to be able to outright deny you and other sites the possibility to push unwanted crap onto my browser. I'm trying not to be sarcastic here. I came here honestly trying to make it clear to you that you have a serious bloat issue. Not everyone is tech savvy enough to fix this themselves. But more importantly, nobody should need to be. I guess I need to spell this out for you. You should have tested your own design and arrived at the conclusion "there really needs to be a way to shut down this extra information for times when you don't need it, for times when you have a slow internet connection, when you're stick at an old computer, et cetera". Just hiding it is a poor man's design solution. Those little arrows do very little in my opinion: the screen estate is still wasted (they replace the feed bars with empty space, rather than something useful, like, say, a wider forum reading area), and they certainly don't cut off the web requests to actually speed up the page loading. Thank you for reading, Umbran. I sincerely hope you appreciate me being direct and forthcoming, just like you. [/QUOTE]
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