I visit this page on occasion and always wondered why it took so long on my high speed connection to load.
Now I know why.
1.5MB of content. In one page!
220 separate connections.
Many of every kind of file, javascript, flash, gif, jpg, html.
260K of HTML, 52K of CSS, 800K Images, 300K Javascript and 110K Flash.
Total time was completely random, generally 15-20 seconds or so. On firefox I got two javascript errors along the way (so it wouldn't load completely). Safari at least gamely went on.
Who writes this crap? You'd think Major League Baseball could afford better web development (or management, which is more likely the culprit).
Sometimes I think fondly of the first web page and its humble content.
Stephane Grenier 06/09/2008 09:35
Wow! That is definitely one of the largest landing pages I've ever seen. I might be able to under secondary pages and so on, especially if they needed to be rich (and even then I'd question it). But as a landing page that's incredible.
On top of time, think of the bandwidth costs. If each page costs 1.5mb in traffic, well getting to TB's of traffic wouldn't take too long...
Chelsius 07/13/2008 04:44
I really hate it when people who have fugly web sites complain about other people when they're a bit aggressive. Typical Java developer. Learn assembly and start looking for the plank in your own eye before you complain about the speck in someone else's.
codist 07/14/2008 22:54
Lol, I learned 6502 assembly back in 1979. My eyes are full of floaters so I couldn't see a plank if it hit me.