Re: [RBW] Re: Trouble loading Rivbike.com
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Manuel Acosta < [email protected]> wrote: > One of my favorite things about the Rivendell website are the > pictures. Every picture on the site always reminds me that I should be > riding my bike. I say hell with fast loading. Some things are best > when slowed down. > Are you kidding? There's a reason that we spent so much on our 400 gram Rivencarbon bikes, and it wasn't to go slow!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Trouble loading Rivbike.com
I vote for slow and pictures...there's already rivbike.com/mobile when I want to use my smartphone - though I'd vote for improving that particular entry point...right now adding something to one's cart through it seems to go to regular site. It's a work in progress, but aren't we all? :-) Basically just have two themes (or more) and a bit of browser detection can satisfy both crowds. Bob On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Joe Bernard wrote: > I vote for simpler/faster, especially in the smartphone age. I'm sure > Rivendell is losing customers whose phones make the process not worth > sticking around for. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/pjfJb2Cux3IJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Robert Harrison [email protected] statrix.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Trouble loading Rivbike.com
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:51 -0800, Dave Rivbike wrote: > Yes, the slideshow. It makes the homepage heavier than it has to be. > Yet it's one of the most loved features of our site, has been for > years. > The images are downsized to a reasonable level, but you still have to > load them any time a new image is added or your cache is cleared. > For site speed, I'd love to have just one image there, the most recent > campout photo, but the slideshow is by far one of most popular > features on the site, so I'm kinda stuck there. > > I think if I removed that, I'd get more heat than if I leave it. > > One compromise is to simply have the most recent photo there on the > homepage with the featured products, and when you click on that image, > you redirect to the whole slideshow, or even better linked out to an > archive of ALL the previous homepage photos we've used in the past. > That way the site would load faster for everyone, and those that want > to watch pictures and simply click out to another page and can wait > for that to load. > Downside is you would get the same image each visit (till we change it > for a new one) instead of the random choice from the bunch. Make that a sticky alternative that users could choose. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
Re: [RBW] Re: Trouble loading Rivbike.com
There are many factors involved that may have nothing whatsoever to do with Riv's site or server- including how many jumps between servers there are from you to Riv's Web server and the latency of each of them, the quality of the copper or fiber between the servers, network congestion, and issues with one's own computer and browser loading and displaying the content (e.g., what's cached and what is not). On Jan 26, 2012, at 8:48 AM, tdusky wrote: > The new site is complex and loads slowly, it always has, I am on a > fast mac with high speed internet. > It sometimes hangs and I need to refresh to get it to load. > That's the price of a cool looking site? > Shouldn't be > > Tom Duksy > Huntington Woods MI > > On Jan 26, 2:24 am, Joe Bernard wrote: >> The home page isn't loading well on both computers (and a smartphone) I've >> used today. I can still click on the categories, but there's no home page >> pic or featured products. Is anyone else experiencing this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
