Originally Posted by schneemann

That guy's a fucking moron.

First sign he's a moron: he starts his article by saying " There is a ton of research on user behavior based on task response time and I'm sure if you search Jakob Nielsen's site you'll find something."

Jakob Nielsen is a hack. Anyone who cites him as a reference for Usability is an idiot.



"Tip #2: Don't use XHMTL" - then his reasoning is completely retarded and wrong. The reason not to use XHTML is because most people do not serve XHTML properly - and when they do serve it properly, IE chokes on it

"Tip #4: Keep JavaScript Small" - no, dickhead how about this: link to your javascript instead of embedding it into the page. That way, the user's browser retrieves the external script from cache for each new page view.

"Tip #8: Avoid Tables (or use fixed-layout tables)" - and yet he uses tables. And WTF does a fixed layout table have to do with speed?

"Tip #11: Reduce the number of external elements" - completely moronic and backwards. EVERYTHING that is reused across the site, such as CSS or Javascript should be separated from the pages so that the files can be pulled from browser cache. That saves the browser from having parse the same shit over and over. This is the exactly the purpose of caching.

Pure FUD