while looking up some stats for craig, i stumbled across this:
DAAANG.
and that is only from 01 january 08, 12:00 AM to 02 april 08, 10:57 am. only three full months! at the end of the year, we would have waited almost 31 billion hours for websites to download!
the internet is great. but snap, we may be a little too obsessed.
what do you think?
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23 responses to “quick! how long did it take for my blog page to open?!”
sounds like we’re wasting a lot of time just waiting around for someone else’s work to use for our benefit.
Loaded nice and quick for me.
But I’m sure I wasted hundreds of hours waiting for pages to load back in the good ol’ days of dial-up.
Click the link…grab a coke from the fridge…read a magazine article…check back to see if it’s loaded…
Thank God for high-speed Internet!!
Brad Ruggles
http://www.bradruggles.com
fasterfox says 3.393 seconds for me.
Apprise (an AIR feed reader) is usually how i read your blog. Your page load was nice and quick tho.
While I will wholeheartedly agree that culturally we have become obsessed with the internet. I like many of us get a certain pavlovian rush when new content appears in my RSS feed, or a new image is posted in a friends flickr feed.
I think the amount of time has less to do with web obsession and more to do with poorly coded sites. Bloat has become so prevalent, most pointedly on blog sites (what with the myriad widgets you can load on a blog – loswhit I’m talking to you), and less than stellar hosting.
If every web site admin focused on just shaving a few seconds off of the time it takes to load their site, that can add up to a tremendous amount of time saved.
Might I encourage those who haven’t…
If you are going to be spending time waiting on the internet, spend some time by clicking on those blue banners over there and saving a child’s life.
How many kids could be saved in 7.7 million hours?
your page loaded very quickly, i study a bit of web design and multimedia as part of my degree at uni, and a web page should load in under 4 secs or you can forget people reading it
steven russell, i love you right now. :) in an appropriate, non-romantic, completely phileo kind of way. :)
heh heh, didn’t answer the question, took about 2-3 seconds for me.
loaded in under three seconds…:)
rightly or wrongly, i am not too patient with long page-load times. i’ll usually just abandon the attempt and try another time.
3 seconds…
that is pretty scary. a lot of time a wasted.
steven russell – excellent words. there have been several kids sponsored by anne’s faithful blog following – people on the internet.
internet good vs internet evil is here to stay.
kudos to anne (and the new sponsors) for using tech to save lives and to LC and many others using the internet to save lives and souls!
I don’t know how much time I have spent waiting for webpages to load, but I am sure it’s a dangerous amount of time. In my defense, I feel I am normally doing other things as well… like.. aww heck who am I kidding. We’re obsessed!
I am spending way too much time messing around online – slow loading sites make me itch – I love Pioneer Woman but her site can take semi forever (I realize server loads, graphics, cruddy connections all make a difference). Guess I’m grateful I don’t have small children crying at my feet – I might feel guiltier and I’m a poster child for guilt as it is!
Anne and Steven, nine zeros is billions. Sorry, I’m an anal former engineer :)
Thanks allen…I’m a writer. :)
Not fast enough when it comes to reading your blogs! : )
Yeah. So see. Even more kids could be saved by 7.7 billion.
that’s insane! How many of those waiting moments will be counted as idle chatter or idle/wasted time in heaven? :O) That’s what I wonder…
Holy Cow. That’s a lot of time.
This brings me to an idea:…
Hey, great blog…but I don?t understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please :)
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