By Vurdlak on November 4, 2009, with 115 Comments
I did something extremely important yesterday. It took more than 6 hours of tempering with Mighty Optical Illusions source code, but the results have already proven themselves. You might ask “What was it? The website still looks perfectly identical!”. Well, in order to fully load the page previously, you had to wait for all the ads to load first, and only then the whole page was constructed in your browsers. This took some time, and many of you argued how the website is too slow. I made big changes yesterday, and now the website loads MUCH faster. Have you noticed this? I managed to place all the adds at the end of our HTML code, so now ads load separately only after the complete website is shown to you.
This means you get the content immediately, and you can proceed reading articles instantly, while the ads are still loading themselves in the sidebar. Hope some of you appreciate this. At least the impression count in my stats states so. With this move I have reduced my income significantly, but your satisfaction is still primary to me. I would just appreciate any kind of feedback, and please report any problems/glitches you might have noticed.
For the illusion of the day, this picture was spotted by Syed Ali (cool name dude!) on a major internet homepage. It was released in honor of Wallace and Gromit 20th anniversary. Except from showing two of the main characters, this picture contains additional subliminal message. If you “decipher” the message, you’ll quickly realize which major website used the pic. Happy hunting!
(27 votes)
I just love the way “XXXXXX” uses their logo to display important dtaes and events!
OK, i know I am not that smart, but the image is just too small to see! How do i get to high res images on this site?!?
It took a while but keep on searching and you find it ! Otherwise perhaps you can use Google ?
It was the curled up paper at the end that caught my eye.
Bob, you’re looking more accurate than needed. Try a different level-of-detail.
This major web site plays around with logos so often that it’s not really hard to guess ;)
Man, thats awesome… took about one minute to realize it…
I love the new site…THANK YOU!! ((*_*))
The illusion is cool too!
i saw this on the actual website earlier today, I think it’s great! :oP
This is a tough one….
I might as well try to ‘search’ it on the net
Well.. The site has always loaded slowly, and after it finally has loaded, it goes blank for few second and then almost as slow loading happens again..
Well now it did load faster, but still it went blank and loaded things again.. This happens also on my other computer, both have windows 7 and google chrome. And none else site does this.
Re – Tomi:
this issue started happening recently, and it’s on the Facebook side. we are still waiting for Facebook to fix it. apparently if you log in and connect with fb account, it sometimes double-loads the page. dunno why, but will try to get them fix it!
I GOT IT THERES NO CHEESE IN THE PICTURE!
Very nice!! Hint: Don’t overthink it
Oh! Think, “What website does most everyone use that put its name in pictures on special days?”
Brilliant! Really, that’s the best pic I’ve seen last days.
hey man…does load faster…thanks for the upgrades! Love your illusions.
you know… that ultra-slow loading comes from various Google-APIs und Plugins. The API-server isn’t the fastest :S
LOL… an hint… look at the colors of the objects…
I can´t find Wally… :P
I found it immediatly, theres was a bit to much stuf on the table for it to look as though there was nothing to dechipher especially the “e”
It took me a while to see it. Finally found it though. Tip: don’t look at any one thing too closely. They all work together. Someone mentioned that curled piece of paper is what helped and that worked for me too. Once I figured out that it all came together.
dude! i spotted it as soon as i finished readin’ d stuff….Awesome
i got it but i think it was only beacuse of the help from others thanks WoesteWillem, Jeff Butler and jem it was easy with all your hint together but i dont know if i would have got it otherwise
Wow. I almost got frustrated that I don’t see anything . but as soon i looked at the magnifying lens. I saw the word . And that toke me a whole 20 sec. to see subliminally. But then i tried to see all the letters by looking at each one and I was correct.
I love it.
This is interesting. When I go to that particular site, we have Big Birds legs for the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street.
Must be different for the UK folks.
I just love it! The hints in the comments really helped! @44calibergnome: yep, you’re right. dont go searching for clues… the picture will do that for you!!! ;)
I dont get it!
can someone explain this to me please?????
:(
I see it!
Hint: the most popular site ever
Hint 2: a search engine
Hint 3: it starts with G
Very cool! Took me a minute to find out!
Ps: neat that the side loads faster! I do appreciate!
Aha!!!! That is pretty awesome!!!
Oh, so it’s not BBC… all I saw there was Big Bird’s legs celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, like Duane. Interesting illusion, though =)
haha this one is great!!!!!!!
COOL
are they using it now?
(as in they often change thier logo)
I already have a pretty fast connection, so I thought I would not notice, but actually I do! This really shows that you do it for your fans. Thanks!
I saw the illusion a few minutes before coming here, so I spoiled it to myself. But still, a very good one! And a tough one, too.
(Just hope my english skills are good enough ^^)
I see only C and E -_-
That is awesome! Love that page its my best friend, lol!
Wow, I FINALLY got it ^_^
took me about 15 mins xD
i still cant find the other letter tho
maybe I can ‘Google’ it later x3
Gee – Only Octogenarians Give Less Effort to solving this puzzle than I did.
The only thing I noticed at first was that the wire for the lamp dissappeared but then with all those clues, I got it.
****BIG hint****
“website”?
more like search engine!
I like the faster loading site. Thanks.
I am in the USA and it’s Sesame-Street themed, but I checked and it’s Wallace and Gromit in the UK.
The lamp tipped me off, but I thought it was supposed to be the Pixar lamp at first.
Kudos on the site redo. Everyone else should follow your example.. but I bet it’ll piss off the advertisers. Ah well, it’s about time someone remembered why we come to these sites in the first place. Hats off to you!
it loads faster now, but for some reason i am experiencing thing thing where the page loads itself twice. it will load once, then refresh itself. ideas?
If you’re having difficulty you can search it up… on… Uhhh… *A search engine* (:
Help!! I just don’t see it.
Okay, I Googled it and there it was :-) Pretty cool.
i took ages to realise wtf was going on because of how small the image was and i was spending 95% of the time trying to get it bigger, in the end i CTRL+Scrolled to zoom in, and then was like “OH.. Okay .. okay then lol” because isaw the Lamp and it was a G :)
Think about it… what site usually celebrates anniversaries? The image does not to be any larger, the word is visible at that size.
ad block plus ftw ^^ firefox rulls
Awesome, im not givin away anything but this is too kool :)
SUH-WEEEEEEET!
Better than all the other ones ‘they’ turn out these days.
Well, the page hasn’t finished loading, the video on top right is stuck waiting, i can’t navigate away or close the window. Please fix.
and it was very simple!!
XD I spent an hour looking at this picture in vain earlier this morning, then I come back here and i’m O.O’ ARE YOU SERIOUS. I spent an hour looking for something that I use EVERYDAY.
Nice, if you can’t find it, do search it^^. You’ll understand it really fast if you do.
(Wow! the site did load faster! Yay’s!!!)
Sunshine, its probably one of your most frequently visited sites…Founded in 1998.
Found it!!!
It is just your perception!!!
Still if u dont get it try to search it in google…
i dont get it :[
Would someone please help me out here! I’m losing sleep, I don’t get it!
Hey what do I search 4? I’ve stared at it but nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. Help plz?
At first i thought it said cookie. Now its more obvious.
Nice work with the source core. I noticed a considerable speed-charging. You could too, by refreshing the browser screen.
(I thought and thought and finally tried to “google” for solutions and then I got it ..)
Congratulations for the hard work you have to make your page fast!
I have the major website in my initial browser page, and I´m see a lot of that name designs, maybe that make it easy for me.
the “desipher” hint through me off and now my head hurts *rub rub*
very nice one!
hehe
i spent like 3 hours on this then i look at the tags… ahh
really like it!
hehe, nice, I didn’t got this one but then I looked again later and I saw it :)
guys look at the objects in the image not wallace and gromit. look at stuff like the light and paper you will figure it out
ooh.. i see. :)
Found it in the first time. Yay.
You can’t find it in yahoo, only in google. ;)
I love it! the best banner “they’ve” ever made
i saw this on the site iself so wasnt that interesting. but its still great
lol GOOGLE!!! i saw this when it came out xD
I can’t see nothing.
oh, yes i see it! cool.. and not that obvious like they use to be :D
I had to look on google, only google…lol that was good!
it was the first thng i saw in thi picture.
Google
the objects spell google
ur website as never slow for e b4. NOW its slow.
OMG IT SAYS GOOGLE…………well played wallace and gromit, well played.