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09/18/2001 Archived Entry: "18-September-2001 -- News sites simplified after performance bogs down"

News sites simplified after performance bogs down (Computer World) -- "Some major media organizations simplified their Web sites today in order to reduce bandwidth needs and lighten their server workloads, after many of the sites were overloaded by the crush of traffic from Internet users seeking updates on the apparent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington." (Comments: Saves bandwidth. Saves time. Saves money. It is a shame that it took a tragedy for these sites to learn this lesson. Hopefully the sites will stay slim.)

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The BBC news site was a no-go area for a couple of days last week. But they have a no-graphics version of the site (which you can switch to once you get there). Why didn't they simply put up the no-graphics version as the default?

Posted by Alan @ 09/19/2001 09:05 AM EST

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