Comments on: The New Zealand homepage Hall of Shame http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/ Start-ups, Maps and Local Search in New Zealand Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:53:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: john http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/#comment-1285 john Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:34:32 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/?p=549#comment-1285 I think that you're missing the point. The fact is that NZ webpages have been poorly optimisation. My point is that there's no excuse for poorly optimised sites, which would make a big difference in user experience. The information and tools have been around for a long time. Yes, getting better broadband will help enormously and its important to get that fixed asap. I think that you’re missing the point. The fact is that NZ webpages have been poorly optimisation. My point is that there’s no excuse for poorly optimised sites, which would make a big difference in user experience. The information and tools have been around for a long time.

Yes, getting better broadband will help enormously and its important to get that fixed asap.

]]> By: Roscoe Changleen http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/#comment-1284 Roscoe Changleen Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:09:55 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/?p=549#comment-1284 Whilst all this good code design and optimisation is all well and good, I think that bending over backwards to make up for Telecom's (and others) basic failure to move NZ broadband forward is not a particularly good reason to do this. All you are doing is helping make their inaction OK. As you state yourself, the NZ average homepage size is already lower than the international (basically US) average. If general consumers don't feel the need to demand change how is it ever going to happen? Whilst all this good code design and optimisation is all well and good, I think that bending over backwards to make up for Telecom’s (and others) basic failure to move NZ broadband forward is not a particularly good reason to do this. All you are doing is helping make their inaction OK.

As you state yourself, the NZ average homepage size is already lower than the international (basically US) average. If general consumers don’t feel the need to demand change how is it ever going to happen?

]]> By: ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » Runtime Page Optimiser http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/#comment-1283 ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » Runtime Page Optimiser Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:15:45 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/?p=549#comment-1283 [...] The team from Action This have created a new product called Runtime Page Optimiser that will dynamically optimise your webpages at runtime. It looks like a fantastic product to solve a lot of the problems highlight by the NZ Homepage hall of shame. [...] [...] The team from Action This have created a new product called Runtime Page Optimiser that will dynamically optimise your webpages at runtime. It looks like a fantastic product to solve a lot of the problems highlight by the NZ Homepage hall of shame. [...]

]]> By: Chris Auld http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/#comment-1282 Chris Auld Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:39:10 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/?p=549#comment-1282 To give you an example... Tool on: http://www.medrecruit.com/Login/Home.aspx (YSlow of 91, 2.89s to load over my WWAN card) Tool off: http://www.medrecruit.com/Login/Home.aspx?rpo=off (Yslow of 64, 5.68s to load over my WWAN card) No code changes or site changes whatsoever. Just dropped the component on the site and added some config lines to the *.config file. You ought to see some of the changes we can make to the sites that you have listed :-) To give you an example…
Tool on: http://www.medrecruit.com/Login/Home.aspx (YSlow of 91, 2.89s to load over my WWAN card)
Tool off: http://www.medrecruit.com/Login/Home.aspx?rpo=off (Yslow of 64, 5.68s to load over my WWAN card)

No code changes or site changes whatsoever. Just dropped the component on the site and added some config lines to the *.config file.

You ought to see some of the changes we can make to the sites that you have listed :-)

]]> By: Chris Auld http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/#comment-1281 Chris Auld Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:31:24 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/?p=549#comment-1281 For ASP.NET and IIS7 based sites we have developed a tool that applies optimizations inline- i.e. automatically without users having to change the page. http://www.getrpo.com Drop me an email if you want me to pop around and show you how it works? For ASP.NET and IIS7 based sites we have developed a tool that applies optimizations inline- i.e. automatically without users having to change the page.
http://www.getrpo.com

Drop me an email if you want me to pop around and show you how it works?

]]> By: ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » YSlow - Eating our own dog food… http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/#comment-1270 ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » YSlow - Eating our own dog food… Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:31:34 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/?p=549#comment-1270 [...] been working on improving our YSlow ranking on ZoomIn Homepage. We scored 83 during the homepage audit 3 weeks ago, now we’ve managed to get it to [...] [...] been working on improving our YSlow ranking on ZoomIn Homepage. We scored 83 during the homepage audit 3 weeks ago, now we’ve managed to get it to [...]

]]> By: Request http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/#comment-1258 Request Tue, 27 May 2008 03:39:25 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/?p=549#comment-1258 John, how do I get in contact with you - we are looking for speakers for an internet conference.... your subject here is very topical... John, how do I get in contact with you - we are looking for speakers for an internet conference…. your subject here is very topical…

]]> By: ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » NZ Government Home page web performance audit http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/#comment-1250 ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » NZ Government Home page web performance audit Thu, 22 May 2008 04:08:50 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/?p=549#comment-1250 [...] part II of my audit of New Zealand Homepages (Part I looked at the top 75 homepages in New Zealand). I have conduct an audit of 320 Government websites looking at their web performance. The audit [...] [...] part II of my audit of New Zealand Homepages (Part I looked at the top 75 homepages in New Zealand). I have conduct an audit of 320 Government websites looking at their web performance. The audit [...]

]]> By: Max Power http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/#comment-1242 Max Power Mon, 19 May 2008 22:27:05 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/?p=549#comment-1242 I try to do what I can with static web pages to make them efficient, but my homepage (http://HireMe.geek.nz/) is not as efficient as I would like it to be. Most of the tools to make webpages more efficient either cost money, have compatibility problems (the PNG file format is 'not ready' to universally replace GIF) or are inaccessible to many users -- for me I have no control over the gzip compression feature of HTML. As long as webmaster do what they can to make their pages load faster, there will be fewer problems. I suspect most NZ webmasters are not doing this. : ( I try to do what I can with static web pages to make them efficient, but my homepage (http://HireMe.geek.nz/) is not as efficient as I would like it to be.

Most of the tools to make webpages more efficient either cost money, have compatibility problems (the PNG file format is ‘not ready’ to universally replace GIF) or are inaccessible to many users — for me I have no control over the gzip compression feature of HTML.

As long as webmaster do what they can to make their pages load faster, there will be fewer problems.

I suspect most NZ webmasters are not doing this.

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]]> By: Robin http://blog.projectxtech.com/2008/05/14/the-new-zealand-homepage-hall-of-shame/#comment-1238 Robin Mon, 19 May 2008 13:34:40 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/?p=549#comment-1238 You do need to be careful with gzip compression sometimes - IE (the blight on the web that it is) has issues with it in some cases. That said, I think they're mostly JS related, and this can be dealt with by selectively disabling it depending on the UA string, so there is little excuse to not be doing it almost always. You do need to be careful with gzip compression sometimes - IE (the blight on the web that it is) has issues with it in some cases. That said, I think they’re mostly JS related, and this can be dealt with by selectively disabling it depending on the UA string, so there is little excuse to not be doing it almost always.

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