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Max Power
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If they want to maximise the number of visitors then websites ought to do their best to cater to all types of users. Similar situation: Here in the UK our TV signal is shortly to switch from analogue to digital. Without getting too bogged down in the science, I have an analogue set and am not willing to spend the extra money on a digital conversion box. So when the signal changes, the British TV channels will simply lose my custom- simple as. A similar judgement ought to be taken with regards catering to dial up users.
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Yes. And to add to the other contributions so far, let me say that if someone on a high speed connection gets discouraged waiting for a site's content to load because the advertisments are slow to arrive, imagine how someone with a slow connection is going to feel when this happens on every one of your web pages. This doesn't just apply to ads, but large graphics files as well.
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They are suppossed to. As they taught me in school, the majority of people still use dial-up and 800x600 resolution. For that reason pages should not weight more than 65 to 70k (in a perfect world) so those dial-uppers can open pages fast. Of course, we are not living in a perfect world and lots of people are upgrading to broadband, sorry for dial-uppers...
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Definitely, since the majority of people are still using 56k or less connection speeds (and we all know how long it can take to load a graphics-intensive page on dialup!). If I visit a site whose front page takes forever to load, I'm not likely to visit that site again. I'll frequent the sites that load quickly, without all the bells and whistles.
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