Posted by Mika on 11/27/07 08:38

"Ed Mullen" <ed@edmullen.net> wrote in message
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> When you keep saying things like: "You're not our targeted customer base
> ..." have you considered tourists?

Thanks for the constructive comments.

In an ideal world we would love for everyone to be able to access the site.
We do try to attract tourists, in the hope their route to our server is
decent. But it is predominantly a shopping site, and that is the
prerogative we have chosen to target it. However on a secondary level we do
have tourist related content which search engines pick up, particularly
street names like Oxford Street, London.

The thing is, to load the page fully and see the streetscape is under 300K
(not 6MB as someone reported). If someone has trouble downloading 300K via
broadband, and it is not down to our servers or page size, then it is down
to the route their hops take to get to and from us.

It seems some people get lucky, others don't, but we still feel we have done
all we can really by getting it down to 300K and using robust servers.
Sure, that size isn't recommended for dial-up, but then neither is our site.
But for broadband, it is nothing. Your connection should blitz through that
in seconds.

A tricky one to solve really for overseas visitors unless anyone here is
able to contribute a workable solution that does not involve going back to
the drawing board (which would be unrealistic).

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