Network(s)
as the bottle-neck...
So you're having 'trouble'
getting your web-page (or somone-else's) displayed in a 'timely' manner
on your computer...
Let's take a look at the 'philosophical' struggle between consumers of
web-pages (those people at home or office) attempting, (with their
Web-Client-Software) to obtain a web-page (an ...html file) from a
web-server-computer (at some remote location).
When a web-viewer-user wants a web-page the 'obstacle' (unless the
'web-server-computer is in the same building) is the NETWORK.
What's a "NETWORK" - WELL - it's just some wires - really that is
ALL that a NETWORK is - just some wires...
BUT _ here's the problem...
it's ALWAYS going to be faster for a computer to move data from one
place to another than it is for a network to move data from one place
to another...
SO - how does one 'speed-up' the data-flow, how does one speed-up the
Display of a Web Page?
There are a number of ways to 'slay this dragon' and here is / are just
a few of them:
- reduce the network-bandwidth required to move data from the
server to the client computer(s) (by studying, learning, understanding
these next four points...)
- reduce the workload on the web-server-computer (that computer at
the remote location)
- reduce the workload on the web-client-computer (that computer at
the local-location (your home or office computer)
- understand the difference between the two computer types and what
'work-type' that you are asking the computer(s) to engage in
- write your ...html code with some degree of 'thought' of how you
can 'optimize' the work-types versus computer types
The understanding and use of these items will do more to help you
'serve' your web-pages to your customers / clients / viewers / users
efficiently than any other thing you'll learn about ...html or other
file-editing specifics. Inefficient use of network badwidth will
destroy anything positive you do in editing and creating files for
web-page-display.
Not understanding the use of the network (which is now (begining of
2007)) and probably will be, for the next 10 years or so, the
bottleneck in the web-space equation, will set-you-back in your pursuit
of becoming a web-guru.
last updated: 09:34 a.m. on
Saturday, 19 January, 2007: revID: 1b