As a follow-up to our Sunday "Recent Blog Changes" post...
As of yesterday evening, we're experimenting with a new template that sends pages to your browser gzip compressed. This should dramatically speed up page loading for you (esp. for dial-up surfers), and dramatically cut bandwidth use for us.
Your browser should handle it, but we need to know if (a) today's page [150-170k, alas] loads faster; and (b) any technical problems crop up. Please use the comments to let us know - good, bad or indifferent.
No tech problems here with Firefox 1.0 or Konqueror 3.2.2. Most of the time, I use aKregator to read all my feeds, and it's fine there as well. (Thunderbird doesn't import OPML.)
Can't compare load times for the page -- no base. I wouldn't think there'd be much of a difference, as I'm on cable modem.
Everything loads nice onto a Gateway running IE 6.0.2 over a T1. A dialup report this evening.
No problems here, but I've got dsl/mac/safari.
Yes, I'm noticing a significantly faster load time. I'm running Firefox 1.0, on a T1. The page loads and displays much more quickly than it used to. Can't give metrics, as I was not measuring previous load times, but it certainly is noticable.
This page load wasn't blazingly fast on a 37k dialup line, but probably faster than previously, and certainly good enough. Graphics and text comes through fine. Running System 8.6 on an old Mac with IE 5.0.
No problems at college running IE6 on a T1, or at home on Firefox 1.0 on cable. :)
Now (12/15 1424Z) on the main page, the left-hand column with the text is too narrow, with the right hand column taking up most of the screen's width. Individual posts look as good as before.
On this Gateway running IE 6.0.