Auto-Detect Visitor's Speed???

incakola · 10-29-2007, 03:09 PM

Is it possible to make a website auto-detect the visitor's speed, and direct them to the proper part of the site? If so, how?

Thanks Guys

Boogle · 10-30-2007, 07:05 AM

Hi incakola,

I'd be surprised if this was possible- and this is only me thinking logically and not talkin from experience with this kind of thing but if you think about, whenever you do a test speed for your broadband (which i used to do often when we got new SDSL), you must notice it takes a while to test the speed and collaborate the numbers and then plot it against a callibrated set of results and thus map out the users speed from there?

This would be annoying for some people... BUT on the other hand there may be part of a web log that has some info on a users speed and might be able to be extracted on the fly, i'm not sure but they're the two different ways i'd
look at it.

Not even sure if that helps... lol!

Boog's

incakola · 10-30-2007, 07:12 AM

Thanks for the insight.... I know that Yahoo Maps does it...

what I am thinking is if there is some way do have the site blindly load a script with say a 10kb file.... then if the the upload took longer than (x amount of time) it would direct to the low-speed site.

I have the concept, but no idea how to cod it, or if it's even possible.

incakola · 11-02-2007, 02:30 PM

Anyone else have any thoughts.

Print · 11-03-2007, 07:45 AM

How about using JS to detect how long it takes for a page to load, so if its a 10kb page then you can calculate the time from that.
don't know anything about JS though so don't ask me

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