Could someone with a 56K modem please check this site

[ramon_marett]

Hello everyone!!
I've created a site, but I'm being told it takes over a minute for each page to load on a 56K modem. I'm sure it doesn't, (sure could also mean hope to god it doesn't). Trouble is I've got broadband, and no way of checking properly. So if anyone out there has got a 56K modem could you take a look at www.odysseyuk.co.uk/scheidegger and let me know how long the pages take to load and if it's a bother (if it does idea take over a minute).
Thanks.

[RedLooney]

I'm on a dial up and am currently connected at 41.2Kpbs. It took me 3 minutes 15 seconds to completely load the page. Seems kinda long, but then again I am in the states and I assume your webhost is located in the U.K. since your site is. Hope this helps somewhat.

[Paul Jr]

It took roughly 8 minutes to completely load the page on dial-up, connected at 31.2 Kbps. Though the page was usable after about 6 minutes.

[steelersfan88]

it took me 10 seconds on cable, but my cable is like 3.131 Mbps (400.8 KBps) [b = bits, B = bytes] according to McAfee Internet Speedometer, here (http://us.mcafee.com/root/speedometer.asp?cid=9438).

[ray326]

Originally posted by steelersfan88
it took me 10 seconds on cable, but my cable is like 3.131 Mbps (400.8 KBps) [b = bits, B = bytes] according to McAfee Internet Speedometer, here (http://us.mcafee.com/root/speedometer.asp?cid=9438).
You've got a pretty good path to McAfee. I'm running 3Mbps, too, but I'm only getting 1Mbps between here and there.

[PeOfEo]

Took me a bit of time, I am running at 3mbit download in a dmz. Server lag is the culprit.

[steelersfan88]

IE now is 8 seconds, FF is 4 (does not include flash though, since i don't have the mozilla plugin). yea, i always get a really good path to most sites, i've hit over 4 Mbps before :)

[Ben Rogers]

Speed: 24.0 Kbps

Time: asslong, infuriatingly so: if i were to visit that site for business, you'd have lost mine, you need to cut down on files sizes!!!

Actual time for full download: roughly 9-10 minutes

[Daniel Klann]

Hi,

I'm in Australia on a 256kbps connection and it took about 90 seconds to load. I do like the Flash animation and the lady contained within - sexy, in a Daryl Hannah kind of way :-) However, the effect is lost on the initial loading of the page. Once cached it looks pretty cool but not before.

HTH
Dan

[Compguy Pete]

The site does seem to take forever to load... I'm on dialup too and I think you can dump the flash lady, nice but not needed.

Also there are 2 images that are trying to load that just won't finish. Which seems to be the top logo flash movie, I would recheck to see of you can redo that to run smoother.

[AnacondaAndy]

toooo many images man...besides, you really should not use images for navgation...at least that much. But that is just my opinion;)

Take a look at my site(link in sig), I did a nav (with a lot of help) that uses lists. Hope this helps...

[steelersfan88]

and the opinions of many others :)

[Ben Rogers]

Yes. And if you're going to use images for navigation, at least don't make them as ugly as those.. No offense, but I don't even like the look of the page, which is inexcusable after 8 minutes of loading,,, And, if you do (please do) switch to lists for the navigation, you can use CSS to put the image in the background so the silvery effect isn't lost.

[ramon_marett]

Thanks for your replys, I can't believe the page took about 8minutes to load on some computers!!! Still, I'll take everything on board and by the looks of things will probably have to just start again...........oh joy!

[ramon_marett]

okay, i think that's okay now. according to www.websiteoptimization.com the page now only take 17 seconds on a 56K (I know this is still quite long, but the client asked for 20seconds so we're both happy). Thanks for your feedback everyone.

[Ben Rogers]

17 seconds is a tad long, but if the page looks good I don't mind. I know things'll take a while to load. And, even though I haven't checked yet, going from 8+ minutes to 17 seconds is pretty good...

[Ben Rogers]

OK: you still need to junk those image based navigational links for text based ones. Also CSS will eb a gigantic help as it doesn't impact load times, at least according to web optimization. It seems to work for me: I, personally, think my website doesn't look too bad, and I got a pretty good report..
14.4K 9.37 seconds
28.8K 5.18 seconds
33.6K 4.59 seconds
56K 3.15 seconds
ISDN 128K 1.66 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 1.06 seconds