On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:45:49PM +0200, jdd wrote: > however I effectively tried to read the wiki from this 56k > line and was unable to do so. I have yet to investigate > where is the bottleneck. the html given by mediawiki is > quite awfull, and page size (around 15-20 kbytes) are pretty > large, but I'm unsure this is sufficient to give the bad > result I had.
My thought would be more that there was a connection problem. Modems retrain after some while and what they do is get connected at a lower speed. The fastest I was ever connected was 54K with a 56K modem. I coud keep that up for aboyt 5 minutes. After that the modem retrained and even though there still was a physical connection, data droped to 0. 52K was possible for a long time. When I moved, my maximum connection was 40K and on dry days 42K. This after some tweaking on my modem. I have seen modems go slow because of many several reasons. That said, if there would be a 'printable' css that would filter out the left and top column, en.opensuse.org would go from 18220 to 11530 bytes. Cleaning it up even more would also be possible. On a larger page (e.g. Making_a_DVD_from_CDs with 35k) the difference will be much less, unless you are willing to remove a LOT of layout. Now this all does not mean that there can not be any speed improvement: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ A nice page that shows how fast things download and also pinpoints the main problem to the css files that are way too large compared to the rest. -- This space left blank intentionaly --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
