Wednesday, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:11
Thanks for the
feedback Peter. There is one other major reason ExplorOz may appear a little slower and that is that we have nearly 10 times the user traffic of any other 4WD site in Australia. This has been measured by Hitwise - We are currently the 19th Top Travel Website in Australia (yes that is the general Travel category). We have on average over 200 users at any given time of the day. Whilst I write this the system has 311 users working away on it.
Last night when I was checking on the upgrade status the system was reporting over 400 users at midnight (some being search engine indexes etc but still a lot of traffic). We spend a lot of time and resources on try to keep the performance up and so far it has been excellent since the upgrade - this is my testing and may not be the same for every users for every page.
Also don't be fooled intot thinking that Broadband will give you perfect access to every site on the Internet. Who is you ISP? Most ISP's (read almost all) sell heaps of front end bandwidth and then they purchase less back end bandwidth (it is the cost ratio that makes the money for the ISP) - Sell 1000MB and buy 256MB - multiplex the users through the backend link and hopefully it will be fine for the users experience. I have a 1.5MB connection from my office (with iPrimus) and constently only get between 256 and 512KB a lot of the time and some times I get 1.5MB for hours. It depends on so many factors.
Yes there are some reasons why ExplorOz will not be the fastest - Basically the user numbers, also our stats collection processes which run on every page (I need these to prove usage to advertisers).
I will keep my eye on it and we do always update code (ExplorOz is our primary job).
What computer are you running? The menu can drain the cpu power from some systems. Try running this version of ExplorOz Non Dynamic Menu Version. Let me know if you get any difference in the results.
Maybe the performace you are seeing is to do with something other than the server performance, because at this stage I can only see excellent instant access.Regards
ExplorOz Team - David
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