DESIGN FOR SLOW CONNECTIONS
After people make it to their localized web sites, they don’t want to wait endlessly for the web pages to load. Yet most of them do just that, day after day, because companies have built “overweight” web sites. An overweight web site is one that uses too many graphics or too much complex scripting (or both). Put simply, the greater the weight, the greater the wait. Although overweight web sites can be a mild frustration for users in the United States, they are major obstacles in countries where high-speed connections are less common. In fact, even in the U.S., only 10% of all homes have high-speed connections.
When Is a Web Site Overweight?
The heavier a web page, the longer visitors must wait for it to load. ...
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