Heaviest Landing Page Ever
I just clicked on this ad from boingboing.net--for obvious reasons, I mean who can pass up a T-shirt that reads "I never wear pants?"--and a T-shirt site started loading. And kept loading. And kept loading. For like a minute! On a 6mbps cable modem connection. Turns out this page causes IE to soak up at least 14 megs of RAM when it loads, just in content--that's on top of about 20 megs that IE uses for its footprint to support all the features called for on the page. That's frightening. And this is a landing page from clicking on a banner ad! In the business have a word for this... actually, we don't, because nobody does this. But a small price to pay from the user perspective, I suppose, to be able to create your masterpiece of self-expression.
posted by Rich @ 7/28/2005 07:12:00 PM
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