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I discovered something the other day; this blog takes a very, very long time to load for a lot of you.
So I started to play with Blogger's Archiving feature, but a look at my site traffic stats reveals that many people, discovering this for the first time, scroll down and read the whole thing over the course of an hour. So I've decided to make this whole thing the archive, and create a Volume 2 at egina2.blogspot.com.
That's where all the new stuff will go, it'll look the same, and all the old stuff will remain here.
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If you (a) try condensing the size of some of your graphics (does the masthead have to be 40 KB?), you would be helping those readers with slow connections.
It might possibly help to load frequently used images, like the masthead, into Blogger. I think it serves them up faster than Flickr does.
I don't think the masthead is the problem, it's the 150+ large images on this one scrolling page. That plus 270 text entries. It's just... big. My concern is that people wouldn't drill down through archives, and I wanted them to be able to encounter the serendipity about which I receive frequent e-mails.
Hence, volume 2.
Yes, that's a lot of images. My rule is to have no photo or other image larger than 25 KB. Quality issues are not that crucial here.
cheers,
Chas
What about the people coming to the new site, Jordan? They will likely do the same thing, read the posts by scrolling down and they'll completely miss EGINA I, thus missing the archives and defeating your purpose.
Chas has a point about using Flikr serving slower than Blogger.
Personally, I think you should give up Blogger and host a WordPress blog of your own. You're a big-boy now and Google hasn't done anything innovative with Blogger at all. I know you like the fact that its owned by Google and that gives you some comfort in knowing that it will be indexed no matter what, but if you set up a WordPress blog correctly, use the proper meta-data in the head and images, and people are linking into you (which they are) you will have no problem getting indexed.
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Jordan,
Please see John Camp for a reply I posted to your most recent post. Thanks! I would love to know what you think.
Peace,
Art
wow~ what an amazing blog~ thrilled I happened to stumble across you~
~Izabella
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