Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
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Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
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Re: Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
#2It's not the video or whatever, it's just observing some basic rules:
-Combine external JavaScript
-Enable gzip compression
-Leverage browser caching
(As suggesteg by Chromes Inspector)
As well as
-Using css embeds where possible
-Severside caching if they don't do that already
Re: Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
#3I disable javascript on the Post website. I did it initially because they did something that breaks in Opera recently, but the page is noticeably snappier and more usable. I haven't missed anything by turning it off.
Re: Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
#4Just loading JavaScript in a non-blocking fashion would probably improve apparent page-load time significantly.
Re: Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
#5> In finding solutions, The Post doesn’t want to sacrifice ad revenue. Nor does it want to give up much of the valuable marketing information that comes from the tracking of your reading habits.
Translation: You're not the customer, you're the product.
I've seen this story too many times: We want high performance, AND we want a simple user interface, AND we want these 20 features, and we will not listen to the tech guys who tell us we can't have it all. Something has to give.
Re: Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
#6At least it loads faster than Salon.com. Everything loads faster than Salon.com.
Re: Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
#7It amazes me how many high traffic sites seemingly can't be bothered to test their sites with YSlow or Google Page Speed.
For example, The Post gets a D from Yslow, as does Techcrunch, but they aren't the worst of the pack as ReadWriteWeb gets an abysmal F.
Re: Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
#8At least it loads faster than Salon.com. Everything loads faster than Salon.com.
That's not that surprising when you look at what grades Salon.com gets from Page Speed and YSlow (a C and E, respectively): http://gtmetrix.com/reports/salon.com/Tebabbbf
Re: Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
#9> In finding solutions, The Post doesn’t want to sacrifice ad revenue. Nor does it want to give up much of the valuable marketing information that comes from the tracking of your reading habits. Translation: You're not the customer, you're the product . I've seen this story too many times: We want high performance, AND we want a simple user interface, AND we want these 20 features, and we will not listen to the tech…
In the context of the Post, these are excuses. They even admit that their site loads more slowly than all of their competitors. What does the Post's site do that the New York Times, Guardian, and Reuters don't?
Re: Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
#10> In finding solutions, The Post doesn’t want to sacrifice ad revenue. Nor does it want to give up much of the valuable marketing information that comes from the tracking of your reading habits. Translation: You're not the customer, you're the product . I've seen this story too many times: We want high performance, AND we want a simple user interface, AND we want these 20 features, and we will not listen to the tech…
In the context of the Post, these are excuses. They even admit that their site loads more slowly than all of their competitors. What does the Post's site do that the New York Times, Guardian, and Reuters don't?
Sounds like the WaPo site has ceased being a website and become a bikeshed, instead.