and it's interesting for two reasons: how many people are surfing at 56k and below, and how much more broadband folks surf. It's that wacky old 80-20 rule again... your most valuable customer may be broadband and huge downloads may be acceptable for some sites. Once again we are reminded that "the rules" are different for each site. Sadly, unlike OS or browser, your log files can't help you here....
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About your comments that log files can't help:
I'm picking nits here, but your log files *can* help you here.
There are two simple tricks to use.
Apache (and I think IE) have the ability to log how long a transfer takes.
So if an image takes 3 seconds, you can tell. You can plot a histogram
for how long representative files take and figure out the effective transfer
rates.
A bit harder is to use the referring url with this. You can measure the
start time of the html page (the time in the log) to the time the last
image was done (time of the image + download time). That will give you
the time to load the entire page.
No need to guess; its all there.
Neil
Posted by Neil Katin @ 08/08/2001 08:56 AM CST
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thanks Neil! you rock, as always....
Posted by christina @ 08/09/2001 04:45 PM CST
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