Re: BBC Weather site display
Dr Peter Young wrote: [snip] > This is with RISC OS 5.14 and NetSurf r9677 and broadband. > > The BBC sites in general seem to be getting more and more bloated. The BBC > front page, which I have as my home page, with its 100+ images (really > needed?) takes 25 seconds or so to load, and I can no longer edit it > significantly. It takes quite a time to load in Windows Firefox, too, > though I haven't timed it. NetSurf r9677 on OS5.14 takes 13.5s to load the BBC's home page and 9.5s to load my post code weather page :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/4290?area=CM15 > I've given up on the BBC weather sites, for just the reason that Gerald > mentions. The Metcheck sites (try > http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/today.asp?zipcode=GL52%203DS for > instance) seem to work better, though this had just taken 35 seconds to > load, but hasn't made huge inroads into memory. 6.2s here. Nice site though. Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows 7 Ultimate takes about 2-3s to reach the BBC's home page, that is with a 2*2GHz processor. Snow Leopard is all but instant running on a 2*3.06GHz processor. > I suspect this is all the fault of the BBC web-people, but I wonder what > the experts have to say? Given the general slowness reported I would have doubts about Peter's broadband speed. I get about 6000kb/s and Firefox 3.5.5 downloaded at over 700kB/s. -- David Pitt MessengerPro on iMac, Snow Leopard
Re: BBC Weather site display
On 21 Nov 2009 David Pitt wrote: > Dr Peter Young wrote: [snip] >> I suspect this is all the fault of the BBC web-people, but I wonder what >> the experts have to say? > Given the general slowness reported I would have doubts about Peter's > broadband speed. I get about 6000kb/s and Firefox 3.5.5 downloaded at over > 700kB/s. Yes, indeed, I know my broadband is on the slow side; as I understand it, we're about at the maximum distance from the exchange. Putting in the timings was a way of pointing out what I think is an unnecessary amount of bloat on the BBC sites, not to complain about slowness! With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter, \ / zfc Yb \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 Anne\/ ____\ England. and / / \ | | |\ | / _\ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk family / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
Re: BBC Weather site display
Dr Peter Young wrote: > On 21 Nov 2009 David Pitt wrote: > > > Dr Peter Young wrote: > > [snip] > > > > I suspect this is all the fault of the BBC web-people, but I wonder > > > what the experts have to say? > > > Given the general slowness reported I would have doubts about Peter's > > broadband speed. I get about 6000kb/s and Firefox 3.5.5 downloaded at > > over 700kB/s. > > Yes, indeed, I know my broadband is on the slow side; as I understand it, > we're about at the maximum distance from the exchange. Putting in the > timings was a way of pointing out what I think is an unnecessary amount of > bloat on the BBC sites, not to complain about slowness! The BBC site is certainly not slimline at all but even my slowest non-RISCOS machine, XP on a single 1.4MHz core, copes well. Lots of sites are over complicated these days. The BBC site does offer, debloated?, versions for mobiles, and at this point I find a minor snag. On the BBC's home page some links are not displayed in Netsurf at the top left in the purple bit above the BBC logo, fortunately the Mobile link is present. Chase that around for a while to reach this which is a bit quicker, (but not a lot), :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/d/index.mobile.shtml -- David Pitt MessengerPro on iMac, Snow Leopard
Re: BBC Weather site display
In article <49539.82.153.33.53.1258751334.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk>, Gerald Dodson wrote: > November 15 version: > On first accessing the BBC weather site the part of the page initially > shown is blank and there is a error occurs with a png. Stepping down > results in the image on the lower part of the page being shown and on > returning to the top part that appears correctly. I can't reproduce this. What's the exact URL and do you have some location set? If you are having trouble with the development build, I suggest you run NetSurf 2.1 for the time being. Michael -- Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
