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page load experience

by arora007 » Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:29 am
Hi Eric... just thought I should share this honest feedback with you...

Band width could be an issue for few of us. Fortunately the BTG forums load pretty fast.

But off-late I have been pouring over the forums like many hours a day....(rescheduled my date from 17th to 6th)

I see that the "facebook fanpage script" takes time for loading...

it takes about 2 seconds from it to look like this


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to look like this...(i.e. the page to completely load)


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I see the actual time the script might be taking is to load is to randomly pick up 8 out of the 3000 odd followers of BTG.
Moreover it seems that the script seems to randomize one by one the 8 people rather than picking up 8 in one go.

( I say this because, we find links to the profile of some people and no links because of the privacy settings of other people)

I think it would be a neat idea to have a Facebook link & Like option something like this...

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I picked this up from an online trading website popular here in India, which would have taken utmost care of the
"page load experience".

Just a suggesting if we could implement on BTG....
U might just be feelin... that an aspiring portfolio manager is behaving just like one ;-)
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by beatthegmat » Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:27 pm
This is a really interesting idea to save on page load. Let me send this to David, who is our tech expert here!

Thanks for this suggestion,

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by DavidP » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:02 am
Hi Arora,

Thanks for the update. I was thinking about changing the FB fan page widget so that it doesn't show the pictures at all. I'll discuss with Eric later today. We'll make some changes that I hope will improve page load times. Will update you after it's done.

David