May 04, 2004
Experiment
Busy? Then skip this. There's no payoff, and little point.
OK, go get a watch or a timer or something with a second hand, or have a friend count off "One Mississippi, two Mississipi, ...".
Ready? OK, and . . . start the timer!
Now: go to www.adobe.com. Find the main product page for Adobe Illustrator. Once you're there, stop the timer. Write down how long that took. If you're reading this sentence and you haven't started the timer, then I hate you, because I told you to start the timer and you didn't listen to me.
At this point, please reset the timer. Is it reset? Good. And GO!!! That means start the timer again!
Now: go to Google and find the main product page for Adobe Illustrator. Once you're there, stop the timer. Write down how long that took.
I don't know what my point is, other than that I gave up looking after about 15 seconds, and just Googled it. That's not even a point, is it? Please make up a point for me.
Yes, I now know how to get there from the Adobe home page in two clicks, so I guess I'm just a dummy.
Posted by cradle at May 4, 2004 06:29 PMTook me 3 seconds to go to adobe...
Posted by: kan at May 4, 2004 06:37 PMOK, but I'm looking for two numbers: how long to get to adobe illustrator product page from adobe.com, and starting from google.com.
Posted by: David at May 4, 2004 07:01 PMFunny, funny, funny...
3 seconds and 10..
Via Adobe: 1:09. Earned David's ire by loading up the Adobe homepage before starting the timer. Spent 3 seconds wondering if IllustratorCS was what we were looking for.
Via Google: 28.9. Spent a second or two finding David's instructions after moving my eyes off the page to start the timer. Illustrator, of course, was top result. Clicked it; page was already loaded, since David had brazenly biased the test by having us first do the method HE WANTED US TO THINK WAS SLOW, so that the page would already be cached by the time we ran the second test.
Posted by: Bob S at May 7, 2004 03:18 AM