Millions of people shop online every day and millions of people are wasting vast amounts of time, collectively as they wait for a store’s weekly ads to load up. As internet speeds have increased over the years, good optimized web design has sadly decreased. Slow-loading web pages are the norm filled to the brim with lots of graphics, javascript, flash or multimedia elements which clog the tubes that make up the Internet.

Former United States Senator, Ted Stevens from Alaska tried to warn us all about cramming too much into those tubes that make up the Net on that fateful day, June 28 2006 with these prophetic words:

“They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”

Like Al Gore’s Global Warming warning *cough* nosuchthing*cough*, Ted Steven’s cries of alarm rang in deaf ears. The Internet tubes continue to be overstuffed and clogged worse and worse these days. Which causes delays and makes us wait and wait and wait for valuable information like sports scores, random clips of the Daily Show, Twitter entries ad infinitum and oh yeah, perusing through weekly ads in freaking Flash.

Flash requires more bandwidth than simple HTML does and we all pay the price waiting for it all to load up so we can graphically flip through pages. Which is ridiculous. Why wait for graphical representations of page flipping when all we want is to see the ad pages themselves?

If you go to just about any retailer like Best Buy, Staples, Office Depot or Office Max after you click on their Weekly Ads there’s usually a Dialup or HTML mode option. Clicking on this time-saving option will present to you the ad pages you want to see in a fraction of the time the flash/broadband animated bloat option does. This saves you time. Not only that but it saves everyone time. Which helps keep those Internet tubes unclogged and working great for everyone. And that’s a good thing.

You want those ad pages to load faster right? You want to keep the Internet tubes unclogged right? Trust me, you don’t want to have to take a plunger to the Internet, do you? It’s much much filthier than a backed up toilet on Burrito Tuesday… *shudder* ack! Trust me.

Keep those Internet tubes clog-free and load those store ads much faster by choosing the Dialup/HTML option when viewing Weekly Ads. Why waste your valuable time waiting when you could be perusing and finding those latest bargains?