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Btw, blogger also avoid to put the pop-up ads on their blog, it is so irritating!
The size show in Google is just the size of your HTML text. It's not the TOTAL file-size needed to load your page.
After the browser reads all the HTML, it will then call the required objects such as IMAGE. so your IMG SRC tags could only be less than 1k but the images you load is another thing altogether.
Did you know that this page alone loads about 400kb of information? Try it, just save the page to your desktop and see the total size. :)
And another thing that annoys me is the "read more" thing. I did blogged about it in one of my post The more I hate and you could read it there.
Hope all these doesn't offend you. I'm just being a bit straight forward. =P Nonetheless, your blog is still one of my fav blogs, keep it up!
Entertainment. I will try to squeeze out the sense of humour as good as I can. You know, I don't really how to crack jokes but I will try though. :-)
I added the "Read More" because I don't have many things to add into my sidebar and fingers will be tired if my readers need to scroll down and down just to read the posts. As I am posting daily, some readers might miss out post that I posted a day earlier and this is why I tried to shorten my posts.
Never mind, you can voice any suggestions, I need them to be better. Luckily I have someone like you to voice out. A big big thank you! :-)
@ thiamhin
Being simple is great and I like simple blogs with great contents. :-)
That popularity contest plugin is very helpful actually... i found my site's Japan related post getting more views than design related, izzit a sign that i shud write more Jap stuff than Design? i'm trying to balance those two.
Something's not right here. If you want it to load faster for Malaysian readers, it should be hosted locally (in Malaysia la).
Again, you have to understand how The Internet works. When you host it overseas, you're request takes more hops to reach the server and the requested content will take more hops to come back. (Try doing a Traceroute)
Now, ping www.wayneliew.com (US) vs www.goldfries.com (MY)
Pinging goldfries.com [202.71.103.136] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 202.71.103.136: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=58
Pinging wayneliew.com [74.50.10.10] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.50.10.10: bytes=32 time=241ms TTL=49
Another problem with Hosting in the US is (if you and majority of your readers are Malaysian) is that IF there is a severed connection to the US - your readers will have problem loading the page while you have trouble updating. :)
If your popularity shows you that the post is the one getting all the attention, you should listen to it but still, you are open to many other choices like sticking more to Japan and design.
@ lukxiufung
I went to your blog and found that your ad placement are all right. Maybe the Nuffnang banner you can move down a bit, after making yourself your own banner.
@ Kitkat
Thanks for the support! I know you're on of my best readers since I saw you commenting here!
@ goldfries
I hope you don't get my message. :-P Serving my site from the US will make my site loads slow because of the added hops. This is why I am trying to lower the amount of data packets to be sent over the Internet.
Will this help? Can right? Anyway, can't change now since I am already on a one year package. :-)
@ Nicholas
Correct amountof ads is the key. :-)
I will remove it after I get the payment. Because I am thinking it is not worth to put such banner with only earning RM 1.75 per week with ads. Further, those week I got 5k visits. Last week, they announce to take care of blog with highly foreign visits (US), I got 90% from US. BUT, I got RM 6 only. Very diff with their 1st ads in my blog which is 6 times for this.....they make me look like they are giving good return first to attract you then let you there dying....no offend here :P
Anyone can help on this?
I won the battle, but you won the war. :lol:
@ lukxiufung
Yes, their whole week of ads is giving me lesser than the earnings of one day I earned with Advertlets.
@ keeyit
Help telling your friends if you see these ads lurking around their sites.
@ Sean
I am not sure on this. Do you remember they asked you to place a code inside your blog before you can use them? Maybe that will be the tracking code to see where most of your visitors are from. I know what you are thinking, "My blog can't have lots of US visitors?"
Well, I think they have their way, searching out all the Malaysia posts you have is a way. This is why there are investigation going on. Also, everyone can report your blog to PPP.
@ MonkeyWong
Your blog loads fast for me. :-)
Some o fthe stuff may seem obvious, but sometimes it can be overlooked and need pointing out. I'm sure many will find this very useful :)
Thanks. I am just trying to pick up those that have been forgotten. :-)
@ pondlife
Cool, I hoped you learnt something here.