Re:AirBnb's new site design
by untog on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @10:34AM
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It loaded for me in ~2 seconds, on a 2010 Macbook Air. I think we're at the stage where 'heavy' pages are permissible, and even advantageous at times.
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Re:AirBnb's new site design
by bengillies on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @10:52AM
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It loaded for me in ~30 seconds on a 2011 Macbook Pro. I don't see what your loading experience has to do with anything. Different people have different connection speeds in different parts of the world (my connection speed varies within the same building depending on congestion, etc).
That said, all the fancy pictures do look very nice, and certainly draw you in like no other travel site that I've come across (when it eventually loads).
I don't see what your loading experience has to do with anything.
I was responding to anecdotal evidence with contrary anecdotal evidence. In the big scheme of things neither really means anything, but it would be pretty tedious if I had to test a statistically significant number of machines every time I altered a page layout.
Re:AirBnb's new site design
by ineedtosleep on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @11:56AM
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It's still pretty heavily reliant on internet speeds. If you're using wifi at a coffee shop, or have a relatively congested work connection, the site does crawl -- though I can only attest to the latter case.
Thankfully, I use noscript to cut down the loading a good amount, but the parent's issue is a very significant one.
Your computer is barely two years old, and doesn't reflect your internet connection. Most people are on far older, and probably far slower connections.
"Most people" on the internet, or "most people" in AirBnb's user base? Because they could be very different. For once it would be nice to see HN give a site the benefit of the doubt in that they might have actually looked at their analytics and planned accordingly.