[Web4lib] Tools for designing for lower bandwidth users?

[Louis St-Amour]

Google's tips (and Google Chrome's Web Inspector) is always a good
place to start website optimization. E.g.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html
There are a few good books with tips too, as you can optimize as much
for broadband as dialup. Mobile, too, has it's own
considerations--even if a connection is fast, it may still be slow to
respond to more than one request at a time.

Louis.

Sent from my iPhone

On 2011-02-28, at 1:12 AM, "Cornwall, Daniel D (EED)"
<daniel.cornwall at alaska.gov> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've been coming to the realization that some of our organization's web pages may be very unfriendly to low bandwidth users. See http://www.museums.state.ak.us/online_exhibits/AlaskaGameShow.html for an example. It comes right up in the broadband friendly office I created it in, but takes quite awhile to load in other places.
>
> I think I could come up with different ways of presenting this material. It would help if one or both of the following were available:
>
> 1) A site or program that could take a URL and estimate the total loading time for various bandwidths.
> 2) Some program or site that could simulate lower bandwidth connections so I could be sure I wasn't developing content for high end bandwith users only.
>
> Any ideas? I know I could sum up the HTML and all the images and then plug in that figure to a speed calculator, but I'm hoping for something a little more automated.
>
> Thanks in advace for any assistance you can offer. - Daniel
>
> ===============================
> Daniel Cornwall
> Head of Technical and Imaging Services
> Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums
> PO Box 110571
> Juneau AK 99811-0571
> Ph: 907-465-6332
> Fax: 907-465-2665
> E-mail: dan.cornwall at alaska.gov
>
> What does the Division do? See http://lam.alaska.gov <http://lam.alaska.gov/>  for a sample.
>
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