Comments on: Sustainable Web Design (??) http://www.wiredpieces.com/2010/01/sustainable-web-design/ Thoughts, designs, and small talks. Most of which came while taking a shower. Mon, 23 May 2011 16:52:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Sinan http://www.wiredpieces.com/2010/01/sustainable-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Sinan Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:35:45 +0000 http://www.wiredpieces.com/?p=291#comment-176 I tested the loading of the background image and tried to see how long it takes for my browser to launch. I am at work, internet is quite fast here at the moment, around 30 mbps as I tested it in http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/. So it took 2.1 mb of download for a new image, and <a href="http://wiredpieces.posterous.com/google-enabled-bg-images" rel="nofollow">firebug said it took 4.29 seconds</a> to download and render the image. In my article above I assumed a scenario with 1 second to download the image. The actual case happened to be 4.29x times longer to load. Today, we used up a lot of electricity, gentlemen. I tested the loading of the background image and tried to see how long it takes for my browser to launch. I am at work, internet is quite fast here at the moment, around 30 mbps as I tested it in http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/.
So it took 2.1 mb of download for a new image, and firebug said it took 4.29 seconds to download and render the image. In my article above I assumed a scenario with 1 second to download the image. The actual case happened to be 4.29x times longer to load.

Today, we used up a lot of electricity, gentlemen.

]]> By: Sinan http://www.wiredpieces.com/2010/01/sustainable-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Sinan Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:19:43 +0000 http://www.wiredpieces.com/?p=291#comment-175 Yesterday, Google launched their homepage version with background images! So, I will look for on the web if there will be any data that can confirm or disprove the argument I had in this article. Yesterday, Google launched their homepage version with background images! So, I will look for on the web if there will be any data that can confirm or disprove the argument I had in this article.

]]> By: Sinan http://www.wiredpieces.com/2010/01/sustainable-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Sinan Wed, 26 May 2010 17:33:11 +0000 http://www.wiredpieces.com/?p=291#comment-154 Funny thing, recently a similar conversation got some attention when Google changed its logo to a Pac-Man game. By a study done by <a href="http://blog.rescuetime.com/2010/05/24/the-tragic-cost-of-google-pac-man-4-82-million-hours/" rel="nofollow">rescuetime blog</a>, visitors of Google.com spent 4.8 million hours of human time in one day. Read the summary on <a href="http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/google-pac-man-doodle-usage-statistics.html" rel="nofollow">Techie-buzz</a>. <img src="http://cache.techie-buzz.com/images/postimg/GooglePACMANC.82millionhoursand120483800_13FF1/google_pacman_doodle.png" alt="google pacman" /> Funny thing, recently a similar conversation got some attention when Google changed its logo to a Pac-Man game. By a study done by rescuetime blog, visitors of Google.com spent 4.8 million hours of human time in one day. Read the summary on Techie-buzz.
google pacman

]]> By: his thunder-fast gf http://www.wiredpieces.com/2010/01/sustainable-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-99 his thunder-fast gf Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:19:58 +0000 http://www.wiredpieces.com/?p=291#comment-99 :) I was going to post it, but i guess it's a "thunder and thunder" situation. ;) keep rocking on with those ideas!! :) I was going to post it, but i guess it’s a “thunder and thunder” situation. ;)
keep rocking on with those ideas!!

]]> By: Sinan http://www.wiredpieces.com/2010/01/sustainable-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Sinan Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:48:49 +0000 http://www.wiredpieces.com/?p=291#comment-98 I am very surprised to find out about this website ( ;) to my thunder-fast gf): http://ecosia.org/ Ecosia has a similar concept to go 'eco' on searching the web, by providing users a search engine that donates the money made by click-ads to WWF. Although their site is approaching this more on the business side, it is noticeable that they went through similar calculations to figure out the contribution of the masses. And they use 'rain forest' as a unit for saving. Please watch the video below for the explanation of their 'how it works'. Well, just a minus point from me: they also have background image on their homepage.. <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vxca_daRFeM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vxca_daRFeM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object> I am very surprised to find out about this website ( ;) to my thunder-fast gf):

http://ecosia.org/

Ecosia has a similar concept to go ‘eco’ on searching the web, by providing users a search engine that donates the money made by click-ads to WWF. Although their site is approaching this more on the business side, it is noticeable that they went through similar calculations to figure out the contribution of the masses. And they use ‘rain forest’ as a unit for saving. Please watch the video below for the explanation of their ‘how it works’. Well, just a minus point from me: they also have background image on their homepage..

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