Most Inefficient Online Newspaper Award

[Adonis First]

The Racing Post:

Try loading up a "performance monotor" - in Vista and Windows 7 you can put it on your sidebar...
Now bring up some (or even all) of your favourite online newspapers and see them slowly encroach into your RAM and CPU resources.

But now, bring up the Racing Post online.

Shock, Horror!!!!!
Even on it's own it positively EATS resources!
Why?
Because it's been compiled with the Racing Posts agenda in mind, NOT their Customer's considerations?

It doesn't matter what you do in there, whichever day or Time of day, it will soak up a huge amount of your processing power.
Time for the Racing Post to get its act in order and start (belatedly) to have more consideration for what its actions does TO THEIR CUSTOMERS.

[Adonis First]

The hounds at Adonis Towers are having to lope so much faster on the electricity-supplying treadmill, JUSt to satiate that blooming power-hungry RP site.
It looks like the Sporting Life is going to get another look-over, else the dogs might start baying for red meat.
So sad that a publication feels it can get away with so carelessly assume it can drain Customer resources with impunity.
there again, probably their IT folks are the only ones who know just how inefficient their publication is!

[Gordon McIvor Wilson]

What a tragedy, Adonis:

And it must have delayed Sunday luncheon, consuming huge quantities of appetite, alcohol, and aggro whilst you waited for the vital info download from the RP's aged computer systems...

Sunday afternoon is a dog of a time to access domestic Internet anyway, but I sympathise - these old-economy journals have generally dumped their disorganised structures onto whatever pipe and systems they'd picked up over the years: start again, folks, and do it properly!

Or lie back philosophically with a glassbottle or two of the excellent La Concha lunchtime amontillado, and let it all roll by.