On 10/26/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
True enough, however the general userbase has always
been told "Don't
worry about the servers, we'll tell you if there's a problem." Someone
should probably tell them there's a problem...
Unfortunately, most people don't seem to understand the difference
between "problems for the servers" and "problems for the viewers".
It's no huge problem for the servers to serve these pages, it's a
problem when you have to twiddle your thumbs for thirty seconds for
the page to render. The latter is a user-side problem that it's
entirely correct and necessary to report. But most people don't get
that.
(Still, I'm going to have to say the "Don't worry about performance"
essay/guideline does more good than harm, for all that. Just look at
this, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Don%27t_worry_about_performance…
)