Comments on: Optimizing Go Blogs vs Overloading Feeds

By: Alejo

Alejo — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:35:25 +0000

Well done! Thanks!!

Don’t worry about changing past diagrams, if people are using feeds (most frequent behaviour) they’ve already read your posts and won’t usually come back to the old posts.

By: Nexik

Nexik — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:44:22 +0000

yes I change software and now I using gowrite2. New look you can see here http://badukschool.blogspot.com/search/label/zhou%20ruiyang old size: 334 kb new size: 7.62 KB but of course changing all diagrams on my side will take some times. Thanks for pointing me that gGo are making so huge png

By: Alejo

Alejo — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:47:38 +0000

Just a small sample, the new image at my next post “discovering go books: tesuji”. It’s 285x311px, and it’s 3.91KB.
Your board images at 320×320, occupy 200KB.
I hope you see my point.

By: Alejo

Alejo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:48:30 +0000

Well, I don’t think modem connections are “that marginal”. I’m just checking google analytics stats and it seems I receive about a 10% of dialup connections.
I know it’s not much, but I think that having a site which weights around 200k makes it visible for them. A page which takes a few minutes to load, won’t load on internet explorer. Back in my memory, I remember the times when I used to have my ***** modem connection and decided to disable images on my explorer. If I wanted to surf comfortably, I had to disable them, otherwise most pages wouldn’t load or it would take them ages to do so.

In fact, I’ve checked your blog (nothing personal, though) and I’ve seen you only have one post on your homepage (which you already mentioned, and I think it’s a good idea if your regular posts weight quite a lot), but on the next page there are a bunch of unoptimized images.
For example, the board images you are showing us, though helpful, weight around 200k each; and I counted over 20 of them…
Personally it’s not a problem for me, but your site might be “un-visitable” for a user without broadband connection.
I think you are using panda-glgo for making the diagrams. Switching the graphics to 2-colour and disabling board textures will reduce the image size considerably.

By: Alejo

Alejo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:30:46 +0000

Yes!!! I totally support your idea!! If you only want to check a few blogs, GoAggregator is a good place to go.

By the way, Sol.ch is doing a nice job in his blog. And there is one from a korean pro too…

By: thrashor

thrashor — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:57:49 +0000

If bandwidth is a concern, you can just read the few best Go blogs, including this one, via the Go Aggregator’s feeds (http://goaggregator.blogspot.com/). Most of the blogs at PlanetGo – which is a great site – are unfortunately inactive.

By: Nexik

Nexik — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:20:14 +0000

today the use of modem is marginal, but of course bandwidth is always issue. That is why i change way of showing posts on my side (on homepage only posts from last day).

Optimizing the site is good but recently you don’t need to care too much about it.

about RSS: good rss reader download only header of any new feed and only when you are interested then it download the rest.

By: Louis

Louis — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:30:41 +0000

Yea, I second that Google Reader rocks. RSS Readers have changed the way I view the web.

I’d say about 80% of my surfing the web is via an RSS Reader.

You’d also be surprised just how much of the web nowadays has RSS feeds. Its not at all limited to only blogs. I’ve also got craigslist, forums, news sites, etc.