Wednesday 9 February 2011

Tip 26 - Internet Speed

This tip in nice and simple, "dont juse code your site for faster internet connection and normal viewers".

There are far too many site today being designed with flashy multimedia and heavy graphics, this is great is you are running a 100meg internet connection, but as the average internet speed is still only around 10meg, you must remember to make sure your site is just as fast.

My advice for this is simple code your site for the most common types of internet connection, not speed and you cant go wrong. So if you keep in mind that a cable connection, and adsl connection and a leased line connection you wont go far wrong.

Simply put, cable connections are usually around 10meg, but can go as low as 2meg and as fast as 100meg. ADSL connections still only average out at about 8meg, but can go as fast as 24meg or as slow as a few hundred kilobytes.

So in short thing of speeds of 2meg and under, 8-24meg and 24meg + and you site will work great for everyone. One word of caution if you are thinking of the mobile market, most mobile browsers will run at around 1-2meg tops, so make sure you have a cut down mobile version of your website, as unfortunately todays modern smartphones will be happy to attempt to load a full non mobile designed website.

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