Black background vs White.

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Does a website with a black background use more data than a white one?
I'm having this argument with a website owner. I have difficulty to open his website. Takes for ever to open. His website background is pitch black.
 
Depends if the black background has ghosts in it.
 
I am not an expert but based on my knowledge, not at all! Both would merely refer to the hex code for the colour in question and use that colour to display. Exactly the same process.

The only place a white vs black background would be an issue is with battery life on AMOLED displays. Black would be better.
 
There would be no difference in load time. The OP is being a bit silly.
 
ghoti said:
There would be no difference in load time. The OP is being a bit silly.
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No silly. I was not talking about "load time". Can you not read properly or is there some "mistake" in your head?
 
Depends if the background is a colour or an image.
 
marco said:
No silly. I was not talking about "load time". Can you not read properly or is there some "mistake" in your head?
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marco said:
Does a website with a black background use more data than a white one?
I'm having this argument with a website owner. I have difficulty to open his website. Takes for ever to open. His website background is pitch black.
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marco said:
No silly. I was not talking about "load time". Can you not read properly or is there some "mistake" in your head?
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I dont think you are know enough to understand how silly your comment is. Ill give you a quick education.

When a page loads. Data is transferred. The more data the longer the page takes to load. You specifically said, "Takes for ever to open". Either you were lying, mistaken or telling the truth. If you were telling the truth, "Takes for ever to open" means "the page is taking a long time to load".

Make sure you know what you are talking about when you try insult someone, or you will just look like a tit.
 
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What browser are you using? If you are using firefox then I can recommend the "yslow" plugin. Gives you the individual components and their loading times. Internet explorer uses fiddler and I am not sure what Chrome has. That should say why it takes so long to load.
 
marco said:
Can you not read properly or is there some "mistake" in your head?
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Asking people for help/answers & then proceeding to insulting them upon receiving a (correct) answer. A winning strategy no doubt...
 
HavocXphere said:
Asking people for help/answers & then proceeding to insulting them upon receiving a (correct) answer. A winning strategy no doubt...
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+1

As for the OP. Give us the URL so the guys who know what they're talking about can tell you why this is taking so long to load. What makes me wonder is why you would argue with the website owner about this when you clearly don't know how to check. Does he have the exact same site in white too?
 
Well actually since white includes all the colours of the rainbow the poor browser has to decode red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue all at the same time and then combine them together. Whereas black forces the browser to gaze into the infinite void every time it renders a page. And the void stares back. It's not easy being a browser.
 
HavocXphere said:
Asking people for help/answers & then proceeding to insulting them upon receiving a (correct) answer. A winning strategy no doubt...
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In Marco's defense, a number of the responses came tainted with insults and some baggage from previous discussions, it seems.
 
Long shot but... Maybe the black background is an image...


EDIT: I see biometrics has already said this.
 
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