Can your computer handle this website...

[heynow85]

http://www.beetle.de/full/

Foreign language site. Wait for it to load and start scrolling down.

I'm running the site on Chrome and it's so slow. A website is making me want to upgrade. Geez.

 

[Leros]

The page uses 180MB of ram on my machine.

 

[Fardringle]

6 year old computer running Windows XP on a Core 2 Duo. The page loads and scrolls fine in Firefox 6...

The only "issue" I see is if I try to go straight from the top to the very bottom, in which case some of the images in between partially flash onto the screen, but it doesn't slow down the scrolling or display of the page at all.

 

[gevorg]

http://www.beetle.de/full/

Foreign language site. Wait for it to load and start scrolling down.

I'm running the site on Chrome and it's so slow. A website is making me want to upgrade. Geez.

At initial load of that site, FF7 used about 380MB, by the time I scrolled all the way down it was 640MB. It was the only tab in FF7. Then I created a new tab and closed the beatle tab. Took FF7 about a minute to clean up memory usage to about 200MB.

No delays or anything like that.

 

[SonicIce]

unfortunately this is on par with half of all websites these days

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Firefox 7.0 is now using....700MB of RAM. Not bad, at least the site is silky smooth for me. It better be considering the computer runs a i5 750 @ 4 GHz and a Radeon 5850.

I actually think it's a pretty neat idea for a website design. Of course it would be annoying if everyone tried to copy this but worth sharing with others just for the novelty of it.

 

[IGemini]

Didn't slow my machine down, but there's a whole lot of stuff on that page. FF7 hit around 650MB for me. GPU didn't break 20% load. Innovative layout, I'll say that.

 

[spherrod]

Seemed ok on mine, Latitude E6400 Core 2 Duo P9500 @ 2.53GHz with 2GB RAM. Chrome 14, Firefox 7 both good with that.

 

[oynaz]

Foreign language site.

Its called German.

 

[trollolo]

dual core @ 2.4ghz and no dedicated GPU. loaded in a few seconds, scrolls through fine. ubuntu 11.04 here with gnome fallback as the DE

 

[woodman1999]

ie 7 on my work computer... uses 910mb

 

[Ben90]

Question should have been:
Can your brain handle this website...

Mine sure as hell can't.

 

[EagleKeeper]

No problems.
IE9 on Win7/64

 

[Red Hawk]

Eh, a modern GPU accelerated browser should have little trouble with the website. Cool website though, nice to see a website pushing the envelope that's not a site specifically meant to show off a new browser's capabilities.

Now, if you want a website that REALLY pushes what your system can do, try this: http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/ <Uses WebGL which IE9 doesn't support, so you'll have to use something like Firefox or Chrome.

Edit: Also, even if you don't have a discrete GPU when you run a modern browser, the integrated GPU still pitches in.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

now that is quite an awesome demo ! thanks for posting that

Eh, a modern GPU accelerated browser should have little trouble with the website. Cool website though, nice to see a website pushing the envelope that's not a site specifically meant to show off a new browser's capabilities.

Now, if you want a website that REALLY pushes what your system can do, try this: http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/ <Uses WebGL which IE9 doesn't support, so you'll have to use something like Firefox or Chrome.

Edit: Also, even if you don't have a discrete GPU when you run a modern browser, the integrated GPU still pitches in.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

It's much better to scroll through just holding down the arrow key, rather than the mouse. It makes it much more consistent scrolling-wise. Other than that, no problems.

 

[General Kenobi]

Firefox 3.6.23 and 220 MB memory usage. The site works smoothly after loading.

 

[heynow85]

I actually think it's a pretty neat idea for a website design. Of course it would be annoying if everyone tried to copy this but worth sharing with others just for the novelty of it.

Yeah, the idea is very progressive and utilizes cutting edge web technologies.

I work as a Web UI Developer at an agency, and one of my co-workers found it and passed the link around the office.

It's nice to know that the site was even allowed to be published in the first place. Often times companies require websites to cater to the lowest common denominator (a pain for all of us), and as a result cripples much of the creative ideas that web designers and UI devs want to experiment with.

That website not only requires an up-to-date standards compliant browser, but also a decent enough system so that scrolling doesn't feel like a slideshow.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Yeah, the idea is very progressive and utilizes cutting edge web technologies.

I work as a Web UI Developer at an agency, and one of my co-workers found it and passed the link around the office.

It's nice to know that the site was even allowed to be published in the first place. Often times companies require websites to cater to the lowest common denominator (a pain for all of us), and as a result cripples much of the creative ideas that web designers and UI devs want to experiment with.

That website not only requires an up-to-date standards compliant browser, but also a decent enough system so that scrolling doesn't feel like a slideshow.

I reckon they figure if someone wants a brand new car, then they can afford a decent computer too.

 

[Oyeve]

Wow, ran pretty nice on my MBP on Chrome.

That is one kick-ass website.

 

[Thrussst]

Wow. Cool Site! No troubles here

 

[Locut0s]

Cool! Certainly overkill, not something I want to see on every site, but it's impressive! Ran fine on my machine but my specs are kind of crazy so I would expect it to.

 

[GaryJohnson]

English Version:
http://www.beetle.com/full/

 

[Leros]

now that is quite an awesome demo ! thanks for posting that

I thought IE9 had the best graphics acceleration.

 

[Concillian]

lol, VW is trying to make the beetle not a "chick car"

Good luck with that.