Page length

There has been a couple of enquiries that I've had about the length of the post page ie 5 posts per page.
People with a slow broadband speed feel that more posts per page would speed up their interface experience, timewise (

What's the general consensus? Is 5 too few, would ten be better;or more, less? Please let us know here. :thumbsup:

Six of one; half a dozen....
If the thread is mainly of text, then more posts per page would be helpful. But where threads are made up of pictures then less is helpful. i.e. If a thread reaches, say, 20 posts and you have a page of 20 posts of pictures it can take a while to load them all; whereas if you only have 5 per page you can skip to the relevant page if you've already read previous posts without the need to load them all. Hope this makes sense.
By the way ... Im getting 140 ks download at the moment and it all seems to work fine for me at the moment.

I think more per page would be nice it would make things a bit quicker.

That's just the sort of feed back we need. :broon:

What sort of page loading speeds are you experiencing at 140k Rog?

David Aiketgate wrote: That's just the sort of feed back we need. :broon:

What sort of page loading speeds are you experiencing at 140k Rog?

Now you're asking. How do I measure loading speeds?

rog1963 wrote:

David Aiketgate wrote: That's just the sort of feed back we need. :broon:

What sort of page loading speeds are you experiencing at 140k Rog?

Now you're asking. How do I measure loading speeds?

Just click on any thread and time how long it takes to completely load onto your computer. :thumbsup:

As said it all depends on the content. I have to say that The T Bar is MUCH slower than a certain other forum that will remain nameless unfortunately - however our layout is MUCH NICER. It's all about perception I guess - If someone wants to see what we have they will wait the few seconds for it to appear.

David Aiketgate wrote:

rog1963 wrote:

David Aiketgate wrote: That's just the sort of feed back we need. :broon:

What sort of page loading speeds are you experiencing at 140k Rog?

Now you're asking. How do I measure loading speeds?

Just click on any thread and time how long it takes to completely load onto your computer. :thumbsup:

6 seconds for me.

adamelphick wrote: As said it all depends on the content. I have to say that The T Bar is MUCH slower than a certain other forum that will remain nameless unfortunately - however our layout is MUCH NICER. It's all about perception I guess - If someone wants to see what we have they will wait the few seconds for it to appear.

It is not how quickly you can get there that counts but how good it is when you get there :thumbsup:

Okay. I tried it on page 3 of the 'arty farty' thread (as there are several pictures there). Took approx 40 secs. But second time was a lot quicker, I assume because I have cookies enabled.

rog1963 wrote: Okay. I tried it on page 3 of the 'arty farty' thread (as there are several pictures there). Took approx 40 secs. But second time was a lot quicker, I assume because I have cookies enabled.

Please try another new page to see which was the correct load time. 40 secs is a long time.

David; you tend to post larger file size photos than most and yours do tend to load slowly for me. I've just tried page 13 of the Invasion Scotland thread and it loaded for about 50 secs and then stopped altogether with quite a lot of photos only half loaded.