Comments on: Designing for Dial-up http://www.electiongeek.com/blog/2007/10/07/designing-for-dial-up/ 2008 Presidential Election News Twenty-Four Hours a Day Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:46:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: POWRSURG http://www.electiongeek.com/blog/2007/10/07/designing-for-dial-up/comment-page-1/#comment-807 POWRSURG Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:03:02 +0000 http://www.electiongeek.com/blog/2007/10/07/designing-for-dial-up/#comment-807 Update now that Rudy's site is up: grade: F (40) cache/HTTP requests: 563.8K (45 requests)/36.7K (44 requests). He is running PHP 5.1.6 on Apache 2.0.52 on CentOS. His is the only site I saw with a Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) in the HTTP requests. Like most other politicians mentioned, he only has one A record set. Oh, one other test. DTD validity. Rudy: intended XHTML 1.0 Strict, contains 3 errors. Hillary: intended HTML 4.01 Transitional, 16 errors. Obama: intended XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 121 errors. Thompson: intended XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 26 errors. Edwards: intended HTML 4.01 Transitional, 24 errors. Note that I had to mess with the W3C HTML validator to re-evalute it as ISO-8859-1 because they're serving UTF-8 incorrectly and it is screwing up validation. Gotta say I am impressed with how Rudy's site is aiming for higher validation AND has the least amount of errors. They're running the most recent version of PHP and Apache in CentOS' repo (which is a few versions behind). They really could benefit from combining/compressing Prototype and the rest of the CSS and JavaScript, and more importantly adding Gzip compression. Update now that Rudy’s site is up:

grade: F (40)
cache/HTTP requests: 563.8K (45 requests)/36.7K (44 requests).

He is running PHP 5.1.6 on Apache 2.0.52 on CentOS. His is the only site I saw with a Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) in the HTTP requests. Like most other politicians mentioned, he only has one A record set.

Oh, one other test. DTD validity.

Rudy: intended XHTML 1.0 Strict, contains 3 errors.
Hillary: intended HTML 4.01 Transitional, 16 errors.
Obama: intended XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 121 errors.
Thompson: intended XHTML 1.0 Transitional, 26 errors.
Edwards: intended HTML 4.01 Transitional, 24 errors. Note that I had to mess with the W3C HTML validator to re-evalute it as ISO-8859-1 because they’re serving UTF-8 incorrectly and it is screwing up validation.

Gotta say I am impressed with how Rudy’s site is aiming for higher validation AND has the least amount of errors. They’re running the most recent version of PHP and Apache in CentOS’ repo (which is a few versions behind). They really could benefit from combining/compressing Prototype and the rest of the CSS and JavaScript, and more importantly adding Gzip compression.

]]> By: POWRSURG http://www.electiongeek.com/blog/2007/10/07/designing-for-dial-up/comment-page-1/#comment-805 POWRSURG Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:47:06 +0000 http://www.electiongeek.com/blog/2007/10/07/designing-for-dial-up/#comment-805 Grades for site as ranked by Yslow. All page results were marked on the first real page (ignoring stupid splash pages): Hilary: F (51) Obama: F (58) Edwards: F (58) Thompson: F (57) Rudy: NA (site didn't load) Here are the following document sizes for empty/primed caches and the number of HTTP requests: Hilary: 252.6K (81 request)/40.5K (69 request) Obama: 221.6K (65 requests)/20.5K (64 request) Edwards: 212.5K (43 requests)/ 20.7K (42 requests) Thompson: 525.2K (42 request)/364.0K (38 request) Thompson's site could benefit the most from a competent Web development team that knew how caching works. Hilaries team did the best job with eliminating 12 requests, but Obama and Edwards were able to do so in ways that cut their site's file size down the most. Other facts: Hilary and Thompson are running ASP.NET on IIS6. Obama runs Microsoft's PWS. Based on one of his pages it seems that he is using PHP. Edwards' site is running Apache. It is configured to not say what version, nor display any other helpful server info. Also intersting to note is that Obama (the only one that didn't have a splash page) is the only person to have three A records, meaning he is serving out content from three different web servers. His site is most likely to stay up if something goes wrong. No client is using a Content Distribution Network (CDN) to spread out content so that they are served faster to users. Kinda surprising to me, but maybe makes sense in this stage of the election. Whomever ends up running for both parties should look in to one once the parties have chosen their candidates. Grades for site as ranked by Yslow. All page results were marked on the first real page (ignoring stupid splash pages):

Hilary: F (51)
Obama: F (58)
Edwards: F (58)
Thompson: F (57)
Rudy: NA (site didn’t load)

Here are the following document sizes for empty/primed caches and the number of HTTP requests:

Hilary: 252.6K (81 request)/40.5K (69 request)
Obama: 221.6K (65 requests)/20.5K (64 request)
Edwards: 212.5K (43 requests)/ 20.7K (42 requests)
Thompson: 525.2K (42 request)/364.0K (38 request)

Thompson’s site could benefit the most from a competent Web development team that knew how caching works. Hilaries team did the best job with eliminating 12 requests, but Obama and Edwards were able to do so in ways that cut their site’s file size down the most.

Other facts:
Hilary and Thompson are running ASP.NET on IIS6. Obama runs Microsoft’s PWS. Based on one of his pages it seems that he is using PHP. Edwards’ site is running Apache. It is configured to not say what version, nor display any other helpful server info.

Also intersting to note is that Obama (the only one that didn’t have a splash page) is the only person to have three A records, meaning he is serving out content from three different web servers. His site is most likely to stay up if something goes wrong.

No client is using a Content Distribution Network (CDN) to spread out content so that they are served faster to users. Kinda surprising to me, but maybe makes sense in this stage of the election. Whomever ends up running for both parties should look in to one once the parties have chosen their candidates.

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