Comments on: Meta-refresh Vs AJAX http://stills360.com/blog/2008/02/20/meta-refresh-vs-ajax/ An Insight to 360 degrees of life Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: HNK AIASA http://stills360.com/blog/2008/02/20/meta-refresh-vs-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-180 HNK AIASA Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:40:32 +0000 http://stills360.com/blog/2008/02/20/meta-refresh-vs-ajax/#comment-180 It is really a good article. I can say it is a debate between user experience and marketing strategy :). I am agreeing what ever here says. Always there is a debate about user experience. I have worked on several projects everytime i used to have a debate with marketing persons on user experience issues. Finally VOTE goes towards marketing side :). Technology is improving day by day so marketing strategy. May be in future we will use AJAX also to refresh AD's :). I think some websites already doing so :). It is really a good article. I can say it is a debate between user experience and marketing strategy :) . I am agreeing what ever here says. Always there is a debate about user experience. I have worked on several projects everytime i used to have a debate with marketing persons on user experience issues. Finally VOTE goes towards marketing side :) . Technology is improving day by day so marketing strategy. May be in future we will use AJAX also to refresh AD’s :) . I think some websites already doing so :) .

]]> By: Claudia http://stills360.com/blog/2008/02/20/meta-refresh-vs-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Claudia Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:22:54 +0000 http://stills360.com/blog/2008/02/20/meta-refresh-vs-ajax/#comment-141 AJAX definitely looks smoother and is a better user experience. In this day and age, there is nothing more annoying then waiting for a page to reload. Also I agree with the number of page views issues. I believe SMH reloads their page quite regularly and in turn they must be receiving incorrect information as to how many page views they are receiving unless they calculate a new page view is one where there is at least a 20 second gap between each refresh which would actually mean a user went away and came back.. or I suppose a very slow connection... so maybe a larger metric. But then again you look at the type of people who look at the information.. they are mostly advertisers who are about to pay a lot of money. Would they really understand the reason there are more page views for certain sites? Maybe it is a clever thing to have! Until you get audited... eventually.. ;) AJAX definitely looks smoother and is a better user experience. In this day and age, there is nothing more annoying then waiting for a page to reload.
Also I agree with the number of page views issues. I believe SMH reloads their page quite regularly and in turn they must be receiving incorrect information as to how many page views they are receiving unless they calculate a new page view is one where there is at least a 20 second gap between each refresh which would actually mean a user went away and came back.. or I suppose a very slow connection… so maybe a larger metric.

But then again you look at the type of people who look at the information.. they are mostly advertisers who are about to pay a lot of money. Would they really understand the reason there are more page views for certain sites?

Maybe it is a clever thing to have! Until you get audited… eventually.. ;)

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