March 2006 News
March 31 2006
During the month of March I spent a good deal of time improving the Card Pickup Page for Cards From Ogden Point. The task was made more difficult because the page is not hosted on my servers, it is a composite page that loads the various parts of the Posty onto the MyPostcards Network Server for delivery to the viewer. I design and lay out the page and upload the centre of the "body" of the page into a form on the system server. I do not have access to the "head" areas of the page normally used for scripts and other "Meta Data."
In March I added a system to send a "Thank You Posty" direct from the face of the received card. The "Thank You Posty" preloads the names and addresses into a Posty that has space for the recipient to optionally add a brief "Thanks For The Posty" message. The process takes two mouse clicks from beginning to end.
I also was successful in creating buttons for a "Print This Page" function, a "Close This Page" function, a "Save This Page" function (to allow the recipient to save the Posty to their computer), and an "Email This Page" function (to let the recipient either forward a permanent copy of the Posty to themselves or someone else by Email). The "Email This Page" function uses an outside service called www.jkn.com which seems to work very well. The "Print," "Close," and "Save" functions were definitely complicated by my only having access to part of the "Page." Unfortunately, the buttons don't all work in all browsers and on both Apple and Windows platforms. They do work well using Internet Explorer on Windows machines. (More work remains lol.)The "Email" function took a lot of searching and follow up to find an external service I trusted with the visitors (and my) email addresses. I was not able to find any script that let me provide the function directly without the external third party service. I was pleased to find the eternal service at www.jkn.com with no advertising and a very good security policy.
My sites had a regular flow of traffic for the month -- nothing spectacular -- just steady.
Cards From Ogden Point averaged 21.5 visitors per day with a maximum of 36 visitors on the 28th and a minimum of 13 on the 19th.The total was 666 visitors for the month who viewed 8332 pages -- an average of 12.5 pages per visit.
www.ogdenpoint.ca had 64 visitors view 147 pages.
www.ronmclean.bc.ca had 91 visitors view 181 pages.
http://www.photoserver.ogdenpoint.ca had 77 visitors view 494 pages (including the photo albums).
www.hug.ogdenpoint.ca had 55 visitors view 97 pages.
It should be noted that the counters count my first visit on a particular day as a new visit on a new page. That means that if I visited one of the sites every other day, I would account for 15 visits and 15 page views. That can represent a major percentage of the visits in the less frequently visited sites.On Cards From Ogden Point, the maximum number of possible visits would be one per day for totals of 31 visits and 31 page views. That would not have a major impact of the numbers for that site.
March 1 2006
On March 1, Cards From Ogden Point got a new way of displaying my new pictures.
Rather than having a group of pictures on temporary display for a few weeks at a time, I decided to try putting a folder of 2006 pictures in the site with the most recent month's additions at the top of the list. That way the pictures remain available for the whole year.
Click Here For The 2006 Cards Index Page.
March also saw the clean up and overhaul of Cards From Ogden Point.
Here is a "Before" and After view of the site's composition.
The pages were also re-optimized so that most of them would open in less than a minute on a dial up connection. The ones that don't are the original pages and pages containing scripts such as the newly added flash cards for holidays.
And here is an idea of what it takes to make the site operate:
Cards From Ogden Point had 6836 individual web pages on March 21 2006. 46 of those pages were rated to take longer than 60 seconds on a 28.8kb dial up connection. (That would be 30 seconds on a 56kb dial up connection.) 355 were rated to take 45 to 60 seconds, 2633 from 30 to 45 seconds, 3171 from 15 to 30 seconds and 631 less than 15 seconds. All those figures would be halved for a 56kb connection, and less than quartered for a Light Cable or DSL connection. On a regular ADSL or Cable connection, the figures would be approximately 30 to 40 times faster. That would mean that the page that was rated to take 60 seconds at 28.8kb should take 2 seconds to load on an ADSL connection. The limiting factor in Page Loading Times is controlled by the time in which my server can deliver the pages to the internet. My connection gives upload times in the range of 700 to 800kb per second. that is approximately 25 times faster than the 28.8kb dial up and about half or less the download time of ADSL connections. That means that if you are viewing from a Dial up connection, or a Shaw/Cable Lite connection, my server can deliver the pages faster than your computer can download them and your connection is the limiting factor. If you are viewing from a high speed connection such as regular Cable or ADSL, your connection could download the pages faster than my server can deliver them. A page that is rated to take 60 seconds to load at 28.8kb will take approximately 2.5 seconds to upload from my sever to the internet. Then if you add any system delays from the internet and the delay from your computer, it will take whatever delay your connection may have to get it from the internet. The process happens simultaneously, so if you are using that proverbial 28.8kb connection, the page rated at 60 seconds should load on your computer in less than 65 seconds. If you are using ADSL, it can't load in less than 3 seconds.
If you are interested,You can check your connection speed to the internet here:
Internet Connection Speed Tests
You can check your connection to my PhotoServer here:
Ron's Server Connection Speed Tests
During the month of March I spent a good deal of time improving the Card Pickup Page for Cards From Ogden Point. The task was made more difficult because the page is not hosted on my servers, it is a composite page that loads the various parts of the Posty onto the MyPostcards Network Server for delivery to the viewer. I design and lay out the page and upload the centre of the "body" of the page into a form on the system server. I do not have access to the "head" areas of the page normally used for scripts and other "Meta Data."
In March I added a system to send a "Thank You Posty" direct from the face of the received card. The "Thank You Posty" preloads the names and addresses into a Posty that has space for the recipient to optionally add a brief "Thanks For The Posty" message. The process takes two mouse clicks from beginning to end.
I also was successful in creating buttons for a "Print This Page" function, a "Close This Page" function, a "Save This Page" function (to allow the recipient to save the Posty to their computer), and an "Email This Page" function (to let the recipient either forward a permanent copy of the Posty to themselves or someone else by Email). The "Email This Page" function uses an outside service called www.jkn.com which seems to work very well. The "Print," "Close," and "Save" functions were definitely complicated by my only having access to part of the "Page." Unfortunately, the buttons don't all work in all browsers and on both Apple and Windows platforms. They do work well using Internet Explorer on Windows machines. (More work remains lol.)The "Email" function took a lot of searching and follow up to find an external service I trusted with the visitors (and my) email addresses. I was not able to find any script that let me provide the function directly without the external third party service. I was pleased to find the eternal service at www.jkn.com with no advertising and a very good security policy.
My sites had a regular flow of traffic for the month -- nothing spectacular -- just steady.
Cards From Ogden Point averaged 21.5 visitors per day with a maximum of 36 visitors on the 28th and a minimum of 13 on the 19th.The total was 666 visitors for the month who viewed 8332 pages -- an average of 12.5 pages per visit.
www.ogdenpoint.ca had 64 visitors view 147 pages.
www.ronmclean.bc.ca had 91 visitors view 181 pages.
http://www.photoserver.ogdenpoint.ca had 77 visitors view 494 pages (including the photo albums).
www.hug.ogdenpoint.ca had 55 visitors view 97 pages.
It should be noted that the counters count my first visit on a particular day as a new visit on a new page. That means that if I visited one of the sites every other day, I would account for 15 visits and 15 page views. That can represent a major percentage of the visits in the less frequently visited sites.On Cards From Ogden Point, the maximum number of possible visits would be one per day for totals of 31 visits and 31 page views. That would not have a major impact of the numbers for that site.
March 1 2006
On March 1, Cards From Ogden Point got a new way of displaying my new pictures.
Rather than having a group of pictures on temporary display for a few weeks at a time, I decided to try putting a folder of 2006 pictures in the site with the most recent month's additions at the top of the list. That way the pictures remain available for the whole year.
Click Here For The 2006 Cards Index Page.
March also saw the clean up and overhaul of Cards From Ogden Point.
Here is a "Before" and After view of the site's composition.
The pages were also re-optimized so that most of them would open in less than a minute on a dial up connection. The ones that don't are the original pages and pages containing scripts such as the newly added flash cards for holidays.
And here is an idea of what it takes to make the site operate:
Cards From Ogden Point had 6836 individual web pages on March 21 2006. 46 of those pages were rated to take longer than 60 seconds on a 28.8kb dial up connection. (That would be 30 seconds on a 56kb dial up connection.) 355 were rated to take 45 to 60 seconds, 2633 from 30 to 45 seconds, 3171 from 15 to 30 seconds and 631 less than 15 seconds. All those figures would be halved for a 56kb connection, and less than quartered for a Light Cable or DSL connection. On a regular ADSL or Cable connection, the figures would be approximately 30 to 40 times faster. That would mean that the page that was rated to take 60 seconds at 28.8kb should take 2 seconds to load on an ADSL connection. The limiting factor in Page Loading Times is controlled by the time in which my server can deliver the pages to the internet. My connection gives upload times in the range of 700 to 800kb per second. that is approximately 25 times faster than the 28.8kb dial up and about half or less the download time of ADSL connections. That means that if you are viewing from a Dial up connection, or a Shaw/Cable Lite connection, my server can deliver the pages faster than your computer can download them and your connection is the limiting factor. If you are viewing from a high speed connection such as regular Cable or ADSL, your connection could download the pages faster than my server can deliver them. A page that is rated to take 60 seconds to load at 28.8kb will take approximately 2.5 seconds to upload from my sever to the internet. Then if you add any system delays from the internet and the delay from your computer, it will take whatever delay your connection may have to get it from the internet. The process happens simultaneously, so if you are using that proverbial 28.8kb connection, the page rated at 60 seconds should load on your computer in less than 65 seconds. If you are using ADSL, it can't load in less than 3 seconds.
If you are interested,You can check your connection speed to the internet here:
Internet Connection Speed Tests
You can check your connection to my PhotoServer here:
Ron's Server Connection Speed Tests
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