Since some of the load times quoted are not also astronomical, it would appear this is merely ignorant punctuation excess on the part of the writer intended to convey "OMG!", and which should have been eliminated by a competent editor with an ounce of understanding of mathematical notation.
Using "55+11" downloads when "2" might suffice seems quite bad enough for a site that should reasonably have been expected to have an an extremely high volume of traffic; but then, there are a plethora of over-designed web sites on the Internet these days that require entirely too many interactions and too much data to display a typical page. Others manage to get away with inefficiency only because their site usage is much lower. Makes me think folks tasked with designing a high-volume web site should be required to test using a 56 Kbs network interface so they would be forced to give greater consideration to web-page display efficiency early in the game! Joel C. Ewing On 10/30/2013 10:23 AM, DASDBILL2 wrote: > Thanks for the link, Jim. I am reading through the article now. The first > seriously GLARING problem I see is that "It seems they forgot to merge CSS > and JS files together as they are currently loading about 55! Individual > JavaScripts files and 11! Individual CSS files!" > I don't know the exact value of 55! (55 factorial), but I bet it is larger > than the entire universe. And 11! is bad enough. That's a seriously large > number of files to load for every transaction of the registration page. > > This one quote from Compuware's expert, or perhaps from Networkworld's > editors and/or proofreaders, is a good reason to suspect that no one, and not > just the government, knows what he is doing or talking about regarding this > website. > > Bill Fairchild > Franklin, TN > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim Marshall" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:11:36 AM > Subject: ObamaCare Web Site Problems > > There is a NetworkWorld story which is worth a read revealing some of the > problems. Much thanks to Compuware using some of its Application Performance > Monitoring tools to uncover certain things. It is worth it to click on the > gentleman's Blog for more detail. Of course this is only the Internet > facing portion and even if fixed for added speed, never know if the back-end > processing will do as advertised. > > NETWORKWORLD ARTICLE: “Why is the Obamacare Healthcare.gov website so sick?” > > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/102313-healthcare-gov-275167.html > -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
