> I believe users are generally okay with waiting a little longer > for pages that are returning data dynamically from a search for > example
Well, the kind of users who visited MM may be a good basis for that but the average user doesn't know or care that there is a database even involved. They just want what they came for and wouldn't wait much longer than 5,6,7 seconds for a page to load when there were plenty of google results for their search term. They would just hit back and click the next one. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -----Original Message----- From: s. isaac dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:06 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page? IIRC when Macromedia had launched their new website a few years ago (Dylan I think they called it), they published a few articles that described web-wide averages as well as their own targets (the research they'd done during the planning phase). They hit their target of having pages load completely in under 15 seconds... as compared to a web-wide average of about 7 seconds. (Those numbers are from memory -- they may not be entirely accurate.) The overwhelming response from users was that although it was visually appealing, it seemed tragically slow (for what seemed to be relatively static pages anyway - I believe users are generally okay with waiting a little longer for pages that are returning data dynamically from a search for example). -- s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch isn't it time for a change? ph: 503.236.3691 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:296919 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
