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Old 05-24-2004, 07:38 AM Need Input Please
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Hi:

We've developed a pretty good Men's Online Magazine.
www.xposed.com
In just 4 months we have climed to 500,000 unique visitors a month and have hit 15,000 on the Alexa ratings.
But we need to grow and keep changing.

here are my concerns and I hope input here will help me see new things too

1 - our loading time is too slow .. no-one seems to have answer how we can speed it up - any ideas?
2 - How is the site for surfability - hard, easy??
3 - We are not porn - yet Maybe the name and some of the look lends People to think we are .. any changes you see??
4 - We have remained popup free - believing it will be a good selling point. Is it? or should we go to pop ups as the ad agencies want us to?
5 - we have a subscription page that comes up after 5 pages views? Is this too intrusive?

Finally any feedback would be great ..
this is a good site and have read some good stuff here
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Old 05-26-2004, 11:26 AM
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hey xposed,

the site seems pretty good to me, the only design thing I have is to make the gray navbar a little easier to read. I don't know depending on your demographic, if its all young people, don't worry about it .

As far as page loading... i know on some sites like this you can render all of your dynamic content the night before and build out a new set of html pages each day. That way you greatly ease the strain on the server as your 500,000 visitors come to it, its now just serving up html pages.

xposed, sounds like porn to me, that was the first thing i thought of and was like, come on... why post a porn site here? , I was happy that it wasn't. Sounds like expose gentlemen's club. I guess the only thing you can do to help that is to come up with a really good tag line, one that says you cater to men, but are not porn.

a hair cutting business here in austin has a similar problem, they are called "sexy scissors", so you wonder what kind of lady is going to cut your hair . They do advertise that they cater to men, and that a beautiful lady will cut your hair, yada yada.

please remain popup free. more and more people have popup blockers so they will return less and less anyways. Pop ups are the number one way to get rid of visitors, as it annoys them and makes your site seem less real, more dangerous. I know for me, as soon as I block a popup, I leave the site.

I don't think the subscription page is intrusive at all. A lot of sites do this, maybe not after five page views, but at least when the user leaves the site, they show a page asking for opinions, reminders of subscription options, etc...
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Old 05-26-2004, 11:37 AM
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The site takes about a minute to load and thats on a broadband connection

But i guess its worth it, good content

Good navigation visitors should be able to find what they are looking for. Also if people class that as porn they need to get out more! I would advise you keep away from pop-up windows because they just annoy the visitors when you have ads pop-in up everywhere.

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Sorry - your website is filtered on the library computer that i am using and my proxy server is down at the moment. Perhaps the content on your website is too much like pornograhy for RM Safetynet to handle . I will review it when I get home...

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Old 05-26-2004, 04:13 PM
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the header loads almost instantly, but the content takes about 10 seconds on broadband
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Old 05-26-2004, 05:22 PM
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I'm on broadband, and I was sitting there for a little while waiting for any content whatsoever, so god only knows how those on 56K feel

I know it sounds a lot, but maybe hold a poll on your site asking connection speed, and if a large proportion are 56K, maybe do a less graphics intensive version, eg http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm
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