New Look - Please Critique?

cz · #1 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 11:24 AM

I have just had a right side bar with an email signup and a few badges for customer confidence added and to resize for different resolutions.

The biggest problem is that it used to load in 18 seconds on a 56k modem and now it loads in a minute plus for 56k dialup. (accoding to some tools I used)

It is showing up ok in cached versions of Google and MSN but the Yahoo! cache looks crazy!

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com...&bwmf=a&bwms=p

Please let me know what you really think - should I leave it as is or take all of the new side off.

Thanks for your criticisms in advance!

davebarnes · #2 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 11:44 AM

Your problem is here:

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You are asking Yahoo to deliver the images.
Copy the images to your server and deliver them yourself.

cz · #3 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 11:47 AM

Thank you Dave!
I'll mention this to the gentleman who made the right sidebar and see if he can accomplish this.

Does anyone see what the site lloks like in Yahoo!'s cache? Could that hurt our listings with Yahoo! and/or other SEs? Thanks as always!
Chuck