Timeline for Are there ways to make posts with images better for low connect speed users? Does the spoiler feature help?
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| Jul 9, 2017 at 9:46 | comment | added | uhoh | Thank you again for all of this - I've just used the multi-size technique (described in more detail in this helpful answer) in the question NASA's flying telescope SOFIA — How to find flight plans and real time location? | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 11:09 | comment | added | uhoh | @MichaelKjörling thanks for the quantitative reality check! I can understand better now the plight of people viewing the post from different countries with vastly different connect speeds. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 10:59 | comment | added | user |
@uhoh Loading space.stackexchange.com/q/21891/415 without using the browser cache downloads 7642 KB for me just now. Of that, www.youtube.com is responsible for 3182 KB and i.stack.imgur.com another 2729 KB. Excluding just the embedded images and the video-related downloads leaves about 1.7 MB to be downloaded. That's still a sizable chunk of data for what basically amounts to a few pages of text, but not quite as extreme as 7.6 MB.
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| Jun 11, 2017 at 11:05 | comment | added | SE - stop firing the good guys Mod | @uhoh Most sites embedding Youtube videos use the same method (including SE), so the cached content is indeed the same. As for the Youtube site itself, the player is a little different, but the largest chunks are still the same. | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 9:42 | comment | added | uhoh | To double check, the script for the embedded YouTube viewer is several megabytes? Wow I hadn't realized there was such an impact. By some people having it cached, would this be because the've necessarily loaded another stackexchange post with embedded YouTube, or might it include other websites or the YouTube site itself? Thanks! | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 20:30 | comment | added | uhoh | One reason to import images is to take some measure against loss due to link rot. I wonder if one could first import in order to generate a second "backup" more rot-resistant imgur link, and then post both links (to maintain original source as long as it exists) while removing the displayed image. | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 19:57 | history | answered | SE - stop firing the good guysMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |