52 seconds ? - all I can say is yikes. If it is really that long, then a
preloader is a must.
Nobody is going to sit there and watch a blank screen for that long, let
alone 15 seconds, they will
click out of there, or go to another site. - for most anyway. Anyone on a
cable connection won't even see
the load time, it was pretty fast.

I've been on cable modem now for about 4 years and I'm spoiled, and you tend
to forget how long
stuff takes to load on a regular modem connection. Though they (56k) are a
dying beast, I am going to guess
most people are still connected that way.

The whole animation / music sequence is 1 swf file, if the images were
loaded seperately, this would really
help out the situation, and the user would not see the load time at all, but
since there is
music and a transition, this is made harder.

If the client is fine with 52 seconds, then why touch it I guess, but adding
a preloader should be added,
to give people a hint that there is something going on.

Ever been to a party, and there is a pause in the music when the D.J. is
changing the music ?
- same feeling goes .




> My 2 cents:
>
> On my 56K dialup, the actual connection speed was 45.2K (really) and the
> movie took around 52 seconds to load and begin running. (That's on a WINXP
> machine with 1Gig of DDR Ram and a 1.4 GHZ AMD in case you're wondering)
> Given that, I would say that further image compression would only benefit
if
> the load time were dramatically reduced, i.e. by 50% or more. The
rationale
> is that if someone were willing to wait 30 or 40 seconds, then they would
> probably have no problem waiting 52 seconds. Of course, if the client
> demands a certain level of image quality, the point may be moot anyway. (I
> think I just shot myself in the foot!)
>
> Ron
>



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