Most bloated website ever?

Posted by: Deane F on 27 February 2007

I'd like to nominate The Official Formula One Website as possibly the largest, bloated, slowest to load websites on the WAN. I have had connection speeds up to 4500 kbps and that page still takes donkeys to load. I was on the helpline with my ISP a while ago with a connection problem and we loaded that page as a test - even the helpdesk guy was surprised.

Posted on: 27 February 2007 by BigH47

I bet it cost a load of money though. Probably a company owned by B.E. just to get him a bit more dosh.

Posted on: 28 February 2007 by Melnobone

Thats painful.

Posted on: 02 March 2007 by Peter C

Seems a case of opposites here.

A very slow website dedicated to fast cars.

You would have thought they would produce a website as slick and quick as the cars.

p.s. Just been to the website and it doesn't strike me as slow using 2007; however I am using broadband and it could be slow on dial up.

Posted on: 02 March 2007 by Willy

Just went in and had a look. No problems at all on my 2.4Mb (alleged) adsl. There's a lot of data in those pages but none took more that 6 or 7 seconds to load. May be that they had some configuration issues that have since been resolved.

Regards,

Willy.

Posted on: 02 March 2007 by JWM

Max 4 seconds to load any page.

Posted on: 02 March 2007 by Guido Fawkes

The home page came up almost immediately - perhaps it changes depending on time of day and the usage profile.

Posted on: 03 March 2007 by ianmacd

No problem loading the F1 site.

However, if you want to see an over done website, there is none more nauseating than this:

www.cnn.com

Ian

Posted on: 03 March 2007 by AL4N

quote:
Originally posted by ianmacd:
No problem loading the F1 site.

However, if you want to see an over done website, there is none more nauseating than this:

www.cnn.com

Ian

my pop up blocker just nearly had a fit.