Loosemore's law (was UKNM: Fast-loading sites)

[Steve Johnston]

-----Original Message-----

>

From: Tomski [tomtomski [dot] com (mailto:tomtomski [dot] com)]

>let's call it loosemore's law: intolerence of delay increases

>proportionally with speed of connection....


Hmmm..


This makes the point so simply that I may just be inclined to adopt it.

_If_ we can develop it a little. 


Metcalfe and Moore have simple metrics at the heart of their laws; you

know, things that sit comfortably on a graph, like squaring and eighteen

months.  Can we get Loosemore to this point? I doubt that there are

agreed measures for intolerance, so we need to work on an agreed and

measurable symptom of intolerance. In terms of speed we need to think

absolute. How about an axis that holds a progression towards subliminal

delay ( this stuff will be familiar to this audience:

http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html ).


Symptoms of intolerance... now there's a can of worms.....


Instantaneous delivery is so far away that this could be a useful tool

in the meantime.


Now would be a good time, Tom, to admit it if it's not an original.


Steve Johnston

steve [dot] johnstonentranet [dot] co [dot] uk

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-----Original Message-----

From: Tomski [

tomtomski [dot] com (mailto:tomtomski [dot] com)

]

Sent: 13 October 1999 21:21

To:

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

Subject: RE: UKNM: Fast-loading sites


>Right now it's just not worth bloating out pages, but within a year we

>will see more and more sloppy coding/ compression >

>simply due to the fact that it aint something to worry about.


well, i'm sat here on a 1.5 Mbps always on flat fee cable modem

connection

into my living room, and i still get frustrated as hell with the same

sloppy bloated sites that pissed me off over dial up (all those fugging

images cost www.britishmidland.co.uk my business)


let's call it loosemore's law: intolerence of delay increases

proportionally with speed of connection....



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