[LINK] How Websites load

[Richard Chirgwin]

All,

Thanks to Link for the inputs. I'll try both the host-blocks (Rick) and 
the various browser plug-ins (Jan et al).

Craig - I agree entirely. The stupidity of users in allowing themselves 
to be persuaded to pay to shut themselves off from chunks of the Web 
depresses me. But when people who should be providing access for all, 
like universities, decide to suck the Kool-Aid, it's like the world went 
weird.

RC

On 20/06/12 7:46 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> Linkers,
>
> Someone who knows technical details better than I do can probably
> enlighten me here...
>
> The more that Websites add cruft that's useless to me, but useful to
> them, the slower they load. For eg: Crikey is a particular offender. It
> has a bunch of "social" plugins so you can like a story on Facebook,
> Tweet it, and so on. It also has trackers pointing back to Google,
> Doubleclick, fbcdn.com (ie, Facebook's content distribution network, I
> presume), Effectivemeasure.com IMR Worldwide and others. Some of these
> insist on connections to multiple servers (many Googles and many
> Facebooks, for eg).
>
> But the cruft isn't exclusive to Crikey. It's just the one I picked on
> for an example, reading off the bottom of the browser to see who's being
> contacted.
>
> While all this non-content stuff is loading, you can't even scroll a
> page. It's just hung, stalled, static as a rock.
>
> Which brings me to the question: is there any good reason for the
> page-stall? Could a good Web designer say "ok, show them content, let
> them navigate while we backfill all our measurement trackers"? If just
> one of the servers is slow to respond, it may well be thirty seconds
> before you can actually USE the damn pages that insist on all this drivel.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
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