Loading pages with images off
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:47 pm
I was scraping a site with rows that contained small google maps. After a time the images were replaced by substitutes so I took that as meaning something was getting overloaded. I changed IE options to not load images. My scraping worked with this setting as I wanted only the text data in the rows. Is this a good practice in general? Does it reduce the burden on the site?