Possible to find out % visitors on broadband?

Is it possible to find out the % on broadband from web site stats packages?

[nubbin]

Hi all,

Is it possible to find out the % of my web sites visitors who are on a broadband connection?

I get my web site statistics from Hits Link and Webalizer, neither give me this info. I have also browsed the web sites logs and cannot see any clues that connection type is recorded anywhere.

I have a site that has a lot of images (sells antique prints and maps), and it's always tricky to work out if sales will be harmed more by displaying smaller/lower quality images or better but slower loading images.

Also, what's the max page size most people aim for when designing pages with many images on them - currently I aim to try to cap them at about 200k max

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

[SEOMike]

As for finding out who is broadband and who is not.. I'm not sure.

One thing to consider is use of thumbnails. You could put a very small sized picture of your item, and have the user click on it if they are interested. That would decrease the initial page load time. This would also give you the opportunity to give more detailed info on what ever page (pop up or not) you call.

[nubbin]

Thanks for your thoughts, I am already using thumbnails.

I would still like to know how to work out how many of my visitors are on broadband :-)

Programs like Kazaa are able to detect your connection speed, this I why I was expecting someone would have figured out how to detect the connection speed of web site visitors.

[Harley_m]

it depends what you are using - with straight html - i dont know of any reliable way - in fact im fairly sure these not...

there are some shakey JS scripts that time a download of an image and can estimate from that - but again, im yet to see one able to detect it accuratly. That said - for determining whether or not they are on a fast connection - that would be all you need...

I work a lot of asp.net - and there are reliable ways using that - but thats probably not much help!

anyway - hope that helps some,

Harley

[shakers]

Programs like Kazaa are able to detect your connection speed, this I why I was expecting someone would have figured out how to detect the connection speed of web site visitors.

Although I don't use Kazaa%

[shakers]

Programs like Kazaa are able to detect your connection speed, this I why I was expecting someone would have figured out how to detect the connection speed of web site visitors.

Although I don't use Kazaa, all the other P2P programs I've used ask you to specify your connection speed rather than detecting it.

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick..?

[vrtlw]

Also keep in mind that P2P applications are installed on your local machine so they can have access to your registry and other settings.