Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/07/06 22:10

Chris Tomlinson wrote:
> "mbstevens" <NOXwebmasterX@XmbstevensX.com> wrote in message
> news:pan.2006.07.07.20.57.04.545054@XmbstevensX.com...
>
>> That's twice you've caught C.T. drowning in his own
>> statistics.
>
> Were you a bully at school? ;)
>
> Seriously though, why does our hit counter on the server report this
> statistic if it is false? Why have other programmers, some very respected
> in the Google Maps community, agreed with us that JS is off in less than 1%
> of browsers. And those who know how to turn it off, also know how to turn
> it back on very easily!

Your hit counter may mislead you because those not on broadband will not
stick around. I did finally get the site to load on a 45K dialup
connection and it took a little more than 13 minutes to load. In case
you did not get it the first time I have dialup *not* by choice. Some
countries may have over 50% US is one but that means there is a good
chunk that doesn't. BTW the world percentage of 2005 is about 14.5%.

As to the usefulness of your product, after wading through the pretty
interface clicking on a store, which tries to create a popup
window...(you are relying your users will be using IE), essentially your
product is a listing of other merchant sites. Why would you think they
would go to www.Superhighstreet.com and not what *I* and *millions* of
others would do (and statistics supports me here) Google and find and
find the site directly, quickly and efficiently?


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Take care,

Jonathan
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