website capacity?

**vesco** · 03-16-2007, 07:24 PM

I’m very new to having my own website, I don’t know a lot about what happens behind the screens, servers etc but here are a few questions hope someone can give me some info. This is my website- www.onbikescotland.com

I had a website made which has several video samples (bike touring) but a person in America told me that it took him an hour to download a 11mbs clip, but on my computer and at a local internet cafe it only takes 70 seconds.

He told me i must have a very slow connection + download speed? What does this mean?

I think my site has a 50mb capacity- does the size of a site dictate how fast and how many downloads can be taken from the site simultaneously? Can i find out myself what capacity by website actually has, how much space i have- the actual instructions to do this?

Basically do you think i'm losing business because the capacity of my site is not up to the job, and are all servers the same?

Any info greatly appreciated

**yellow1912** · 07:41 PM

Capacity does not have anything with download speed, it's the bandwidth you want know. You should contact your host to know that information.
And all hosts are different, all servers are different. You get what you pay for, usually.
PM me a sample file(link) on your site and I'll test the download speed for you.

PS: it's possible that your customer is the one who has a slow connection, and you really can't do anything about it.

**colbyt** · 03-16-2007, 07:49 PM

I just dowloaded and played two of your clips. I did the Northen and Central Scotland ones. I bufferred enough for them to start playing in about 5-8 seconds and then they played completely with no glitches or pauses.

I don't think you have a problem with your site. The guy who told you that had a bad routing or a slow connection.

Quote:

I think my site has a 50mb capacity- does the size of a site dictate

This refers to the storage capacity you have on the server. It has nothing to do with transfer speeds or bandwidth.

Just so you know I have a high speed cable connection and am located in Central, KY USA.

**travelagent** · 03-16-2007, 07:53 PM

Not bad, except for the following code warnings:

Code:

line 61 column 51 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 62 column 55 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 63 column 43 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 64 column 43 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 68 column 50 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 69 column 50 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 70 column 45 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 74 column 39 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 75 column 43 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 76 column 35 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 77 column 46 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 90 column 183 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 304 column 1 - Warning: <tr> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 305 column 3 - Warning: inserting implicit <table>
line 314 column 13 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 314 column 171 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 305 column 3 - Warning: missing </table>
line 21 column 1 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 304 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "leftmargin"
line 304 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "rightmarin"
line 304 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "topmargin"
line 304 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "bottommargin"
line 304 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "marginwidth"
line 304 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "marginheight"
line 320 column 25 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 326 column 25 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 326 column 25 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "bordercolor"
line 351 column 5 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 355 column 29 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 356 column 29 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 357 column 29 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 358 column 29 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 398 column 117 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 415 column 1 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"

**vesco** · 03-17-2007, 02:47 PM

Thanks for the info,

yello1912- cheers I will PM you a sample link soon.

colbyt- thanks for that, but did you have any problems downloading ' North Sample Two' because i put this on the site myself- my friend (web designer) put all the other clips on my site- just wondering did i do it correctly? ( it was a wmv 11mb, do files have to be compressed for the web)

travelagent- thanks but thats all doubledutch to me, what does it mean, where did you get that code from?

thanks

**ForrestCroce** · 03-17-2007, 03:34 PM

Fives don't have to be compressed for the web; sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't. It would be really inconvenient to have to unzip a movie to watch it from a web site ... meaning you're approaching that right.

I think Yellow is on to something; the guy who emailed you probably had a slow connection, or a hiccup with his connection. Every now and then my cable goes out for 10 to 15 minutes, I think it's questionable wiring in an old building.

What TravelAgent showed you was some pretty valuable information. He ran a validation check on your web site, which doesn't tell you about how quickly two computers can talk to each other, but tells you why the computers going to your web site are scratching your head. Specifically, it's problems with your html. Some of them are more important than others: script missing a type is pretty common. Images with no alt is bad, but not in ways you're not that concerned with yet. But the table stuff, I would make a priority of fixing.

**vesco** · 03-17-2007, 04:29 PM

thanks ForrestCroce,

about TravelAgent, do you know how i could run a validation check myself?

- tells you "computers going to your website are scratching your head" - does this mean my url address is being dismissed by Google etc- if so how can i change this?

-"The table stuff i would make a priority" what do you mean, what should i tell my friend he has to fix (who made the site for me) I have no problem telling him he did not do something correctly- I just need to know what i should say to him?

I'm heading out now but hope you can reply i'll send you a response tomorrow, thanks for your help

**yellow1912** · 03-17-2007, 05:26 PM

You can just send the error code provided travelagent by to your friend, he should know how to deal with it

**colbyt** · 03-17-2007, 05:28 PM

Quote:

colbyt- thanks for that, but did you have any problems downloading ' North Sample Two' because i put this on the site myself- my friend (web designer) put all the other clips on my site-

Frankly I am more inclined to think that you did something wrong than I am to think your hosting is the cause. I know nothing about video but the things I would look at if I were you is the default image size (resolution) of the videos he did and yours. Most videos play in about 600x400 window at acceptable quality and diminish as the resolution is increased.

Then to be honest, before I posted this, I went back on played the video from last night. It was much slower to load today then yesterday. About 3 minutes to start playing.

When the local government first stated putting pdf forms on their website, I once tried to download the an single page form. Somehow they had mangaed to create a scan that was 32MB for a single page. They corrected the problem later and reduce the file size to about 1.5 MB.

At 5:13 EDT usa time I tried to view it just now. I got about 29% bufferred in 2 minutes and said to heck with it.