este comentario al blog en ingles me parece muy muy interesante. en pocas palabras dice qeu todavia en UK e USA uno de cada cuatro hogares se conecta dial up, millones de personas y en todo elmundo ni te cuento...recuerda la creciente importancia del mercado movil y l aimportancia de las paginas no muy pesadas.finalmente le da un rapapolvos aconsejandole escribir sobre algo qeu conozca mejor...
Crudely put, travis. Not to excuse your obvious naivety, you do unintentionally raise an interesting question - how many people are still on dial up?
In the UK (where I'm from), broadband penetration is fairly high, at 75% of 14 million households (as of Q3 2006). I'll help you with the maths here, travis - that means that there are 3.5 million households in the UK with dialup. That's upwards, by my reckoning, of 10 million potential customers. And that's the UK only. The US (where you're from, travis) is pretty similar at just under 75% broadband penetration as of Q2 2006. That's 1 in 4 potential customers still on dial-up.
Let's not forget, as well, that many people get broadband for FASTER internet access, not so web designers can stuff their sites with oversized image and pointless fluff.
Now, what does the future hold? Broadband is now very very cheap - will everyone be on it one day? Possibly. Though let's not forget the mobile market, which dwarfs the ISP market and is still growing (and as far as the intenet goes is still finding its feet). The mobile market is a pay-per-byte style service. Small sites are cheaper. Connections are, currently, very slow, so small sites will, again, be better for mobile users.
If you can't see why file sizes are still not only relevant, but hugely important, online, travis, then I suggest you find topics you are actually knowledgable about on which to voice your opinions in future.
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este comentario al blog en ingles me parece muy muy interesante. en pocas palabras dice qeu todavia en UK e USA uno de cada cuatro hogares se conecta dial up, millones de personas y en todo elmundo ni te cuento...recuerda la creciente importancia del mercado movil y l aimportancia de las paginas no muy pesadas.finalmente le da un rapapolvos aconsejandole escribir sobre algo qeu conozca mejor...
Crudely put, travis. Not to excuse your obvious naivety, you do unintentionally raise an interesting question - how many people are still on dial up?
In the UK (where I'm from), broadband penetration is fairly high, at 75% of 14 million households (as of Q3 2006). I'll help you with the maths here, travis - that means that there are 3.5 million households in the UK with dialup. That's upwards, by my reckoning, of 10 million potential customers. And that's the UK only. The US (where you're from, travis) is pretty similar at just under 75% broadband penetration as of Q2 2006. That's 1 in 4 potential customers still on dial-up.
Let's not forget, as well, that many people get broadband for FASTER internet access, not so web designers can stuff their sites with oversized image and pointless fluff.
Now, what does the future hold? Broadband is now very very cheap - will everyone be on it one day? Possibly. Though let's not forget the mobile market, which dwarfs the ISP market and is still growing (and as far as the intenet goes is still finding its feet). The mobile market is a pay-per-byte style service. Small sites are cheaper. Connections are, currently, very slow, so small sites will, again, be better for mobile users.
If you can't see why file sizes are still not only relevant, but hugely important, online, travis, then I suggest you find topics you are actually knowledgable about on which to voice your opinions in future.