[thelist] OT: Slower Modems,does it matter?

Dan Romanchik dan at danromanchik.com
Fri Feb 22 12:28:01 CST 2002


That's just BS. Of course people still care how fast a page downloads. Your
clients may not care, but I'm sure that actual readers do.

Dan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Boisvert" <webdad at tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Thelist (E-mail)" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:06 PM
Subject: [thelist] OT: Slower Modems,does it matter?


> I was just talking to one of my clients about posting his newsletter to
his
> site.  In the conversation we had talked about the file size of the
document
> and I mentioned it would download rather slowly for those who still have a
> 28.8 or 56K modem.
>
> Now to understand this a little better, it's a church web site and most of
> the congregation is in the older category but the target audience is all
> ages.
>
> But what was said to me in the conversation was the people who have the
> slower modems don't care how long the browser takes to load what ever it
is
> they want to look at, that's why they are still on the slower modems.
>
> Is this a general feeling among clients and do they actually care about
how
> fast or slow the downloading of their web site takes for people with
slower
> modem?.
>
> Bob
>
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