Rubber Biscuits

All of this talk of cookies is making me hungry. One last dip into the cold glass of milk and we can put this issue to bed.

I received a few more emails from people who are experiencing no problems at all loading the site. I live in a remote narrow canyon and use a slow Verizon Mifi device and rarely get more than one signal bar and I load in about 20 seconds.

Every device and setup is different and I think that R's issue is an anomaly. Be that as it may he brings up a very good point. Websites get bogged down with cookie bloat and it does affect performance and download time. In the case of the blast I think the inherent slowness might be because I save my jpegs pretty big and there are usually a lot of photographs on the site. But since I got rid of feedjit and the global hit map it is definitely zipping along faster. But not much you can do about google or youtube cookies when they give you a free platform. Don't think you can escape them.

I would also like to point out something else. R is a very smart engineer who is a computer expert and site designer and knows what he is talking about 100% of the time. So I appreciate his heads up very much.

He sent me this letter and photo today after a few shared missives regarding stale cookies.

R, your cookies seem stale. Might want to try the new ziplock storage bags...

Robert


Indeed they are.  

I have attached a screen capture of the relationships that are established from one visit to your blog. (after you dropped most of the tracking stuff)  

Pretty amazing is it not?

R

R shows us the insidious nature of the cookie beast. This is after I cleared out a bunch of the pesky little tribbles. I assure you that I am not alone. Anybody that uses a website platform, especially a free one like blogger, is going to have to pay something to play. And the price you pay is to be tracked by somebody out there.

I don't think that there is a lot I can do about the problem either. I am already pining for some sort of counter that shows me ( and you) when that dude in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia is having insomnia attacks and decides to pay us a visit. Over 19,000 page views this month, a little higher than average, I like to see who is connecting with what and many of you do as well. Hello Tracy!

I will find something soon to replace what I just tossed overboard. Maybe the pro version will be better.

In any case I am glad that the problem seems to be only experienced by R at the moment. I will endeavor to keep the weight off the blast for all of your viewing comfort.

Love, Robert