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inline linking

24 Mar 2004

Okay, I have a new pet peeve. The inline linking of 23948234 images/ads from sites on your blog. You know the ones I mean. You go to the site, and the it takes 45 minutes to render, because you have to wait for the 15 different other sites that are linked inline to timeout because they are so overloaded, or just plain down.

blogads, blogrolls, blogbuddies, blogshares, amazon, google-ads. .. What the hell?

Sorry. By the time all this crap loads, I have lost interest. I realize that it looks cool, but let’s face it. The majority of us are not atrios or instapundit. They at least have an excuse. You, on the other hand, are probably driving away for more readers that get sick of waiting for your site to load than you’re making in ad revenue.

So here’s a free tip: be judicious in your inline linking. Every object that you add inline to your website increases the probability that it will hang on loading/rendering. No one really cares about your blog-roll, or a google-ad. They came to read your content. That’s what blogging is all about.

Comments

Kynn Bartlett — March 24, 2004 at 18:14 · reply

That’s not “inline linking”, that’s just externally hosted images.

You could just set your browser to ignore images, and then load the graphics you really want to see?

–Kynn

cwage — March 24, 2004 at 18:19 · reply

Yeah, i wasn’t sure what the best term was.

I have tried surfing without images in Opera, but not only is this generally confusing, Opera doesn’t seem to do it very smartly. At least, when I set it to not load images and go to atrios, for example, still see it hanging resolving and loading from amazon, comcast, etc. I can’t figure out what it’s doing.

cwage — March 24, 2004 at 18:29 · reply

And now I see why. atrios’s site loads iframes with external sources. No way that I can see to turn that off. That would be a nice feature..

SayUncle — March 25, 2004 at 08:31 · reply

Yeah, blogrolling caused my site to stop last night for a few minutes. I wish there was a blogroll plugin for MT or something. Blogrolling is the only one I use, it’s just too convenient.

Billy The Blogging Poet — March 28, 2004 at 11:12 · reply

The biggest problem appears to be the sites that are hosted by services such as blogrollong and blogggster– they are often down and load the entire site at a very slow pace. I do have a blogroll on my site but in most instances the rest of the site (the content part) will fully load and be readable before the blogroll loads.

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