To: Steve Yelvington 
cc: Aaron Osterby ,
        online-news@marketplace.com, online-newspapers@marketplace.com

FYI, the Post (the other Interchange refugee) officially brought up
its web site, washingtonpost.com.  Still some bugs, though, as I got
tossed out twice trying to click on features in it.

art brodsky
communications daily


On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Steve Yelvington wrote:

>  Aaron Osterby wrote:
> 
> >At 14,400 on a 486dx2/66 it took me 2:26 to complete the download of your
> page, with 
> >the (paid?) ads resolving last. On the same computer the Pioneer Press site
> finished 
> >the download in :48 and we too have an animation on the front page. Scoff
> if you must 
> >at how trivial a technical detail, but I'm impatient by nature. And I think
> OURS loads 
> >much to slowly...
> 
> Gee, maybe it's a local problem. I saw an ad in somebody's newspaper the
> other day that said "Change your I.S.P.  ASAP." Should I suggest that?  :-)
> 
> Seriously, though:
> 
> * Speed is important
> * Perception of speed is even more important
> * Keeping pages small is good, but not if it requires more pages, extra
> clicks and extra fetches to move around the infospace and get to the "meat"
> of the content
> 
> Your note arrived too late for me to do a comparison on Tuesday's front, but
> Wednesday's Star Tribune Online rendered everything above the electronic
> "fold" in the same 48 seconds that you reported for the Pioneer Planet, on a
> very similar PC over a 14.4 dialup.
> 
> Our launch day was a thundering success, but that introduced some
> performance problems. We simultaneously saturated our T1 line and
> overwhelmed the CPU capacity of our primary Web server. That's a good
> problem to have, and solutions are in hand. We've already taken some
> emergency measures, brought a second T1 line into production, and scheduled
> a CPU expansion for the Wee Hours.
> --
> Steve Yelvington 
> Editor/Manager, Star Tribune Online, Minneapolis-St. Paul
> http://www.startribune.com/
> 
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