You can never win when you review a directory for a wide variety of reasons not least the owners ability to take critique. However in this case the owner asked me to review his three directories and that I’ll do. As usual I’m simply going to be honest and impartial. I’m deliberately going to avoid mentioning what scripts they use because to me that’s irrelevant even though important at the same time. Besides, I’d be called bias simply because of my clear allegiance to the phpLynx script.
I don’t use the tools webmasters can use such as FasterFox which uses pre-fetching methods because I believe (and statistics support me) that the ordinary user still rely on internet explorer with just over 80% of the browser market. I want directory owners to understand that the critique I offer is not to condemn their site to ridicule by their peers, its to show you how perhaps an ordinary member of the public, the potential customer is going to see your site. If my reviews are criticised for anything they shouldn’t be criticised for putting the customer first which is the aim of this.
So to the task in hand…
The directory is the relatively new Web Links Directory that was set up in September 2007. Initial thoughts on it was that it was fairly fast loading, not too overbearing and basically doing what it says it does.
