Please be considerate for your readers.
imagine yourself, visiting a blog.
after you click/type in the url of a blog,
your browser goes blank, as it is loading the page.
and so, you wait…wait…wait…
waiting is boring, so you go to your music folder,
choose a song and play it, and return back to the browser.
the page is still blank, so you keep on wait…wait…wait…
you’ve been waiting for a long time, but the browser is still the same,
so you decided to refresh…
after the refresh, the page finally come out,
but…it hangs, you can’t scroll up, you can’t scroll down…
so, you wait…wait…wait…
especially live space users, most people put the photo module on top,
you can see the photos loading, playing the slides,
but…you still cant scroll…
so, you decided to…wait…wait…wait…
but is still the same, so…
you decided to refresh again…
now, the page loads faster,
and the photos are all loaded,
and you can scroll down now,
and…your music suddenly have a noice came out.
you noticed a mini media player beside…buffering…
as soon as buffering complete, the music plays,
it plays…for not more than 2 second, and it buffers again…
so, what you get is,
noises, in 2 seconds interval…
and so, you decided to stop the media player from playing…
after reading the blog,
you scroll back up, and you saw the music finally finished buffering.
so, you turn off your own music,
clicked the play button on it and listen the music.
it was a nice one, you like it very much,
and now, you right click on the media player…
ntn came out…
so…you left a comment to the owner, askin for the music,
but the owner never reply…
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this, isnt just my experience when visiting blogs.
well, maybe it is, but…
what i wanna say, what i wanna express, what i wan all bloggers to know is…
PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE FOR YOUR READERS!!!
you may like your blog very much,
it has your favourite photos,
it has your favourite music,
it records of your everyday life, your thoughs, your opinion,
and what you found, on or out of the www,
and you wanna share it for everyone.
but…
to be on the viewers side,
are they really interested in your photos?
well, you answered, they can leave if they dun like.
ok, now half of your readers gone.
left half, they may wanna have a look at your photos,
or they may have a very good internet connection,
that they are not affected by your photo slides.
are they really interested in your music?
well, you answered, they can stop listen if they dislike it.
ok, half of your remaining readers gone.
left half, either they are here for both your photos and the music,
or they have a very good connection,
that they are not afected by your photo slides and annoying music playback.
ok, you say, never mind, i still have half of half (which is a quarter).
dun forget,
more than half of readers outside are more likely to be interested in your blog,
but not your photos or music.
statistically, let’s say,
70% wanna see your blog,
20% wanna see your photo,
10% wanna listen your music.
in that 70% blog readers,
you lost 25% because they are annoyed by photo slides,
you lost 25% because they are annoyed by your music,
and you lost 25% because of both, you left 25% of 70%,
which is 17.5%.
in that 20% photo viewers,
you lost 30% because they are annoyed by blog loading-time,
you lost 30% because they are annoyed by music,
you left 40% of 20%, which is 8%.
in that 10% music listeners,
you lost 30% because they are annoyed by blog loading-ime,
you lost 30% because they are annoyed by the photo slides,
you left 40% of 10%, which is 4%
add up together,
you left 17.5% + 8% + 4% = 29.5% of actual readers!!!
juz because, your blog is OVER-LOADED!!!
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Please be considerate of your readers!!!
you may have photos wanna share,
share it elsewhere, there are many online photo albums,
far more better than your current blog’s photo module.
dun "force" your blog reader to see your whole album of non-blog related photos.
if they were blog-related,
please, resize it, compress it.
you dun need to show a 1MB+, hi-res photos to a 800×600 monitor.
a 640×480 size photo should not exceed a few hundreds of kbs.
you may have music wanna share,
juz upload it somewhere, and give out the link to download,
or juz give some description and,
let your music lovers to search for it themselves.
dun "force" your blog readers to listen to your favourite music.
let them choose, whether to play, or actually load your music or not.
decrease your viewer’s loading time to view your page.
a slight improve in a few seconds, may results in hundreds times of compliment.
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