Why is Dangerous Intersection such a slow-loading website?
Why is Dangerous Intersection such a slow-loading website?
[UPDATE: If you can see this update, you are now on DI's new faster server, and the rest of this post is moot.]
I’m painfully aware of the problem, which is being caused by problems with our current hosting, an upgrade to a new design and growing traffic, which now brings us about 6,000 visitors every day.
I’m writing to let readers know that in a few days, we will be transferring this website to a new host, and this will provide much faster page-loading.
This problem with our site loading slowly (and repeatedly crashing over the past 6 weeks) raised an interesting question: How important is it to user that a site loads quickly? Extremely important. Consider these statistics:
Google found that moving from a 10-result page loading in 0.4 seconds to a 30-result page loading in 0.9 seconds decreased traffic and ad revenues by 20%. When the home page of Google Maps was reduced from 100KB to 70-80KB, traffic went up 10% in the first week, and an additional 25% in the following three weeks. Tests at Amazon revealed similar results: every 100 ms increase in load time of Amazon.com decreased sales by 1% . . .
I hope that within the next few days, we’ll all see dramatically increased speed on this website. In the meantime, thank you for your patience.
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Some things are worth the wait.
Because of all of the creationist/theistic advertising I see when my version of the sight loads in.
Apparently google is selectively able to determine your advertising interest/need and thus accordingly selects its latest ads to present in the ad windows.
Is Eric going capitalistic or simply co-opting his efforts and his impatience with creationists?