[thelist] My company got ripped off

[Stephen Caudill]

--------------- Brian Cummiskey wrote: --------------- 
 
: http://www.americancustomercare.com
 
WYSIWYG (WYGIWYD[1]) Crapola! Check out the speed test on
this site:

<http://www.websiteoptimization.com/cgi-bin/wso/wso.pl?url=http%3A//www.americancustomercare.com/pages/services.html>

Here's the highlights:

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Estimated Download time on 56K: 102.55 seconds
(on Dual T1's it took 30 seconds for me)

# TOTAL_SIZE - Warning! The total size of this page is 494500 
bytes, which will load in 102.55 seconds on a 56Kbps modem. 
Consider reducing total page size to less than 30K to achieve sub 
eight second response times on 56K connections. Pages over 100K 
exceed most attention thresholds at 56Kbps, even with feedback. 
Consider contacting us about our optimization services.
# SCRIPT_SIZE - Warning! The total size of your scripts is 80675 
bytes, which is over 4K. Consider optimizing your scripts for 
size, combining them, and using compression where appropsiate 
for any scripts placed in the HEAD of your documents.

Object type	Size (bytes)
HTML:		21834
Images:	395340
Javascript:	80675
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It's Dross. No two ways about it. Helluva long way from 
validating, surprise, surprise. It's nice to see all of the 
nested tables, though. Makes me nostalgic for '99 :)

-Stephen
http://www.mechavox.com/
[1]What You Get is What You Deserve