Black background vs White.

[shogun]

Depends if the background is a colour or an image.

^ This

Image vs No Image yes. If they are both images, then there will be no difference if the whole image is black vs the whole image white (unless compression is used (png or jpeg) and the colours are not pure black or pure white).

So OP... if a solid colour is the only differentiator, then no, absolutely no difference (Agree with ghoti, you are being a bit silly). There are a ton of other things to look at, so as was mentioned in an earlier post, include a link to the page if you want the real reason for the slow down.

 

[ClintZA]

Agree with ghoti, you are being a bit silly

One thing many seem to assume is that everyone is knowledgeable in all areas. Although this may be a really silly question to some, to others it is not as obvious. Perhaps we need to bear this in mind when we answer.

 

[w1z4rd]

One thing many seem to assume is that everyone is knowledgeable in all areas. Although this may be a really silly question to some, to others it is not as obvious. Perhaps we need to bear this in mind when we answer.

When I am not knowledgeable in an area I dont start a fight with someone who is and make up some strange explanation that makes no sense. Its one thing to not know about an area, completely another when you make up something and argue with someone who is knowledgeable.

 

[shogun]

One thing many seem to assume is that everyone is knowledgeable in all areas. Although this may be a really silly question to some, to others it is not as obvious. Perhaps we need to bear this in mind when we answer.

Then one should ask before assuming, and arguing abut it:

I'm having this argument with a website owner.

If you are going to argue about it, know what you are talking about first. Else we reserve the right to use the word silly (even when we really want to use much stronger language).

 

[ClintZA]

Ha ha, I have seen arguments being had on here where the one party clearly knows little about the subject on many occasions. The problem is often that the person does not actually know that they know nothing

 

[purpleonlineadmin]

Only thing colours affect on a background are power consumptions, a fraction I believe. Actual data transfer affected? No! It should load absolutely the same. Supposedly all white consumes 74W, while all black consumes 59W, didn't write it could care less.

http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html

 

[frailwings]

One is suppose to be better for the eyes.

 

[egenis]

If a black background page loads while nobody is watching does it load slower?

 

[guest2013-1]

When I am not knowledgeable in an area I dont start a fight with someone who is and make up some strange explanation that makes no sense. Its one thing to not know about an area, completely another when you make up something and argue with someone who is knowledgeable.

I only do that when I'm bored. I'll counter anything they say and try to make them mad. My cousin loves this, he knows when I'm doing it (because it's blerrie obvias) and joins in the fun. We have the most absurd fights and his wife just can't understand that.

 

[w1z4rd]

Ha ha, I have seen arguments being had on here where the one party clearly knows little about the subject on many occasions. The problem is often that the person does not actually know that they know nothing

Yup, Ive seen the Dunning-Kruger affect at work a lot as well

 

[Diplos]

 

[undesign]

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.

ROFL made me think of Douglas Adams

 

[marco]

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".
I admit that I know nix about webpage programming so don't call me "silly". That is the reason why I am asking for advice. After posting this, I now know that colors are just a hex number. Not as I thought. My thinking was a mixture of colors to make up BLACK. Sorry I annoyed you.

 

[marco]

Asking people for help/answers & then proceeding to insulting them upon receiving a (correct) answer. A winning strategy no doubt...

Havoc. You did not read the answer. I was called "silly" as I asked a stupid question. Hence my remark. I started off with a thread for answers to a subject that I know nothing about to learn from the guys here.
I am now the bad guy after being told "the OP is being silly"

 

[marco]

Ha ha, I have seen arguments being had on here where the one party clearly knows little about the subject on many occasions. The problem is often that the person does not actually know that they know nothing

You hit the nail on the head Clint.

 

[marco]

http://www.forfour.co.uk/forum/index.php

Check the above website. It is even worse on my Tablet.
The black background with the charcoal lines makes it difficult to see whose posts are whose. The grey writing makes it worse with the black background.

 

[marco]

When I am not knowledgeable in an area I dont start a fight with someone who is and make up some strange explanation that makes no sense. Its one thing to not know about an area, completely another when you make up something and argue with someone who is knowledgeable.

Tell me when I did that please.

 

[guest2013-1]

Tell me when I did that please.

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.

You did that right there. Arguing with a website owner over how slow his site is loading because of a pitch black background

*edit*

So you can see why people said you were silly to do that. Because you first argued with him about something and then checked to see if it's true

 

[guest2013-1]

http://www.forfour.co.uk/forum/index.php

Check the above website. It is even worse on my Tablet.
The black background with the charcoal lines makes it difficult to see whose posts are whose. The grey writing makes it worse with the black background.

Okay so now we're getting to the real issue here? You can't see properly?

The grey on the black background pops out for me. The names are clearly marked in a blue and you can clearly see where a posts starts and ends based on the blue subject line being repeated each time with "FF" preceding it.

The website loads within 3.54 seconds, they don't leverage browser caching which is insane not to, which might explain why your tablet is having trouble? It would also just be your internet connection being slow.

The only issues I can see is that his CSS isn't optomized and he doesn't use GZIP/Browser Caching (and some image resizing won't hurt either)

did another test and his site loaded with 700ms

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/sQQoWoqwD/http://www.forfour.co.uk/forum/index.php

There's nothing big on his site at all.

I suggest if you have a vendetta against the owner for some reason to not try and make up excuses to argue with him. Just tell him he's a douche

 

[marco]

Acid. Did you use a tablet or a computer? My eyesight is perfect and even though my tab shows H+ speed, it is slow to open. Sometimes it "Times Out"

As Tablets are becoming more popular as the internet device of choice, surely the websites owners should accommodate for this.

I was not actually "arguing" with the owner. I was having a "Heated discussion" with him.