How “The Official Web Gateway to the Government of Pakistan” website is designed can be described as “dumb” and “prehistoric”. I took the liberty to view source code.
- Amount of data being transferred at first visit : around 650kb in 15 queries to the webserver. 2 of them reaching out directly to the cache server just to pick up javascript files and HTML files.
- The website is built in frames which is “prehistoric” even to the internet.
- 15 Javascript files are transferred including the complete Prototype library (94kb) and Scriptaculous library (100+kb) which is actually an alternative to Prototype and a sounds library (97kb). In short its a clusterf**k.
- The html files have one of the worst written code of all times.
NaMaan: The reason not only you but we are having this difficulty is because some genius figured out that if he runs a cache server, the webpages will load faster. Yes they do load faster but you have to properly configure it otherwise it ends up as a mess and what you see is a mess. I simply wish they a reverse proxy installed. It reduces the delay we all face. I also took the liberty to see how many hops it takes to reach the website. Turns out 15 and its hop 10 and 12 that’s causing the delay. A high number of hops hence more points of failures but absurdly enough the gateway to pakistan is in abottabad and through a website named server4sale.net(WTF??) Perhaps its time we figure out our own routes or get direct pipes to our gov sites
Anyways the website is simply a disgrace, I know for a fact that there are pakistani web development firms that are capable of doing much better interms of design and content management.
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