| Post writer replies To clear up a couple of things in Justin's post:
"Accelerator products may cache popular sites..." Could be, but about half of the 8 sites I tried would probably rank pretty low on AOL's popular-sites list (e.g., waba.org, activewin.com, washingtondc.gov).
"Accelerator products may be only good when newly launched...." AOL's had its acceleration option available for almost two months now, which should be enough time for the servers to either stand up or fall down under the load.
"Secure connections...." Good point. But most financial sites tend to be lighter on the graphics anyway. It's usually the news and entertainment sites that are the worst offenders.
On that note: One thing this whole test reminded me of is that the best "acceleration" is done when the page is authored--when authors ought to be optimizing their graphics and HTML to speed up the page for everybody, regardless of connect speed.
- R |
