My rant of the day…<\/p>\n
If you are paying attention, I’ve been doing a lot of web page visits. They are proving another socialist truism – if you make something free or close to free, you will never have enough capacity as demand always rises to consume unused capacity.<\/p>\n
I’m on a connection that is reliably about 24 Mb\/sec, yet radio station web pages are getting obscenely slow. They keep adding more and more noise – autorunning videos, preloaded picture gallaries, polls, news headlines…<\/p>\n
Someone mentioned GTMetrix in a comment thread – it measures the size and load times of a web page.<\/p>\n
Admittedly my web site is based on the extreme 1990s dialup web of the past, but I’m also running from a residential cable TV connection.<\/p>\n
It reports that if you load my main web page, it took .72 seconds (720 ms), made 9 requests and transferred 47.5k of data<\/p>\n
Drudge Report
\n7.06s – 129 requests – 590 kb<\/p>\n
Let’s wander to a few radio web sites<\/p>\n
KOGO (Clear Channel)
\n5.54s – 141 requests – 2.13 MB of data<\/p>\n
WABC (Cumulus)
\n5.17s – 136 requests – 1.94 MB<\/p>\n
WIND (Salem)
\n14.39s – 113 requests – 1.88 MB<\/p>\n
WCCO (CBS)
\n9.07s – 275 requests – 2.81 MB<\/p>\n
And this is 2:30 am ET on Friday morning – it doesn’t get faster than this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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