Comments on: How to Capture Real Time Website Screenshots the Easy Way http://www.amoswong.com/how-to-capture-real-time-website-screenshots-the-easy-way.html A Life, Technology, Gadgets, Webmaster & World Related Blog Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:30:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: amos http://www.amoswong.com/how-to-capture-real-time-website-screenshots-the-easy-way.html#comment-225 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:12:26 +0000 http://www.amoswong.com/how-to-capture-real-time-website-screenshots-the-easy-way.html#comment-225 Hi Derrick, Thanks for the insight on how Alexa auto generates thumbnails. If I may please take this opportunity; I would like to suggest to Alexa to update their site thumbnails more frequently. Look at my site's thumbnail, it's very very old. hehehe :D http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.amoswong.com Hi Derrick,
Thanks for the insight on how Alexa auto generates thumbnails.
If I may please take this opportunity; I would like to suggest to Alexa to update their site thumbnails more frequently.
Look at my site’s thumbnail, it’s very very old. hehehe :D
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.amoswong.com

]]> by: Derrick Pallas http://www.amoswong.com/how-to-capture-real-time-website-screenshots-the-easy-way.html#comment-215 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:24:34 +0000 http://www.amoswong.com/how-to-capture-real-time-website-screenshots-the-easy-way.html#comment-215 DISCLAIMER: I work for Alexa, a wholly owned Amazon.com subsidiary, but am not speaking on behalf of my company. I think the real benefit of something like the Alexa Site Thumbnail Service is that if you do thumbnails yourself, you have to hit a bunch of sites at the same time, process the results, etc. That can make things slow for the user, unless you push the processing to client side. Either way, if a lot of people do this it can really eat into the bandwidth of the webmasters being thumbnailed, especially for popular sites: it's wasteful. AST is collobrative caching of thumbnails; and when you ask for one that is not there, the service automatically attempts to generate it that day. DISCLAIMER: I work for Alexa, a wholly owned Amazon.com subsidiary, but am not speaking on behalf of my company.

I think the real benefit of something like the Alexa Site Thumbnail Service is that if you do thumbnails yourself, you have to hit a bunch of sites at the same time, process the results, etc. That can make things slow for the user, unless you push the processing to client side. Either way, if a lot of people do this it can really eat into the bandwidth of the webmasters being thumbnailed, especially for popular sites: it’s wasteful. AST is collobrative caching of thumbnails; and when you ask for one that is not there, the service automatically attempts to generate it that day.

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