By: Taban Khajehnassiri
First published in WWN October 09, 1999. Visiting heavy loaded pages with lots of texts and images in the main page brings you that uneasy feeling again on the web that is WAITING.
I have to cross my fingers and enter the address of an Iranian web site on
the net! Personally I find it hard to imagine that the Iranian webmasters
care for the viewers.
Why? Here is the answer: Visiting heavy loaded pages
with lots of texts and images in the main page brings you that uneasy
feeling again on the web that is WAITING. It takes too much time to load a
page full of large and heavy images on the net. As far as I know, there is
a given waiting threshold for each and every human working with (computers
and electronic devices in general) the Internet and when a page takes too
much time loading in a browser, it means you have ignored that waiting
threshold of your viewer, and the visitor will surely push the "stop"
button and remove your site from his/her bookmarks and that is inevitable.
That uneasy feeling increases when we have crossed our fingers but load a
page taking more than our overall waiting threshold. If it is really
required to use large and heavy images in a web page, please inform your
viewers before moving on to the page or while the page is loading.
Another thing that I would like to mention here is that it is good for the
(Iranian) Internet users to know about the updates and changes on your
site. Please inform local, national and/or international related
newspapers, magazines or mailing-lists like our WWN about your newly added
pages or information. Such actions will surely reduce that uneasy feeling
- again on the web!