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December 03, 2006
Yahoo TV UI
Yahoo TV UI: Significant controversy over a change in user interface, with many focusing on pageload speed. I count over 120 media links on the front page, as well as nine external .JS files, two external .CSS files. All those network requests take awhile to sequence and resolve. (There are five SWF in the page too, mostly called up from external .JS, but I've got FlashBlock on in Firefox, and so these SWFs aren't adding to media load time for me.) I think the minigrid for listings on the right is nice, with its JavaScript sliders, and the XML request time isn't too bad when you scroll a few hours out. I still often use a dialup connection, and the sheer number of HTTP requests on many pages is the main cause of site slowness these days, particularly when calling resources from many third-party sites (ads, feeds etc). On a related note, Michael Arrington pointed to the good work from Yahoo staffer Sal Taylor Kidd at that blogpost, first acknowledging customer reality, then following up with a status report on problem resolution. Yahoo staffer Jeremy Zawodny also does the good (if probably painful ;-) work of distilling customer comment down to readable form.
Posted by JohnDowdell at December 3, 2006 09:36 AM
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*you* have FlashBlock?!
:-)
(oh - and I'm not going for that 'often use dialup' stuff either!)
Posted by: Honest at December 3, 2006 12:38 PM
Adobe's web designers should see this and cringe. Building the world's most popular and capable web development tools and then presenting one of the slowest most uninspiring and difficult to navigate or search sites on the net tells many truths about a company.
Posted by: Dave_Matthews at December 3, 2006 12:47 PM
John, check out SnapStream's new TV listings website, Couchville. http://couchville.com/
Please let me know what you think. Since you wrote about Yahoo TV's redesign, I wanted to get your opinion on our new site.
(and I would have sent this to you otherwise, but I couldn't figure out any other way to get this through to you. :-) )
Posted by: Rakesh Agrawal at March 5, 2007 08:10 PM