Category Archives: Player Metrics

Measuring bloat

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Fred Stiening

I’m toying with this idea and hoping to refine it with your feedback. This seems to have sparked some interest. The problem with measuring bloat is there are variables – how fast is your connection? Is your computer doing something … Continue reading →

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Player not really Bloated – LiquidCompass (Salem) – 700k

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Fred Stiening

There are a number of different flavors of Liquidcompass players – a standard flash player, custom players, a few still probably using their older player… Salem’s player is generally very fast – IF- it doesn’t load a streaming video ad … Continue reading →

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Player non-Bloat – Shoutcast – 50k

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Fred Stiening

This is from KFKA http://www.1310kfka.com/streamplayer.php It loads a 13k Flash app,  loads a picture and plays…  the stream starts in 1.22 seconds

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Player Bloat – v5.abacast.com – 4.7 MB

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Fred Stiening

http://v5.player.abacast.com/v5.1/player/index.php?uid=6182 The Flash Player app by itself is 1 MB…. it loaded a 1.9 MB flash video file…  targetspot added in aother 1.5 MB of “stuff”.    The “background” image from the radio station is 175k…   I can’t tell you what … Continue reading →

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