[Javascript] Download time

[Andrew Gibson]

Thanks Peter, most helpful....

> Andrew,
>
> If you have a large DHTML application, chances are that the browser is
> taking a long time to render it (120kB is a lot for one page, especially
if
> that doesn't include images).  As for server caching, that's not really
> going to speed up client-side performance unless your page has to
physically
> obtain the Javascript from a database or somehow create it from an
algorithm
> that you've created.
> As with any web application, of course page size will affect the speed of
> multiple downloads; the more people download it, the more bandwidth you
need
> for your server.  Maybe I'm not correctly understanding the question...
> Let me reiterate that browser rendering is probably your biggest concern
at
> this point.  I don't know exactly how to optimize it -- especially without
> seeing the code -- but I highly suggest you approach the problem from that
> angle.  That said, I don't know how fast your client or server internet
> connection is, so you might check into that too :)
> I hope this has been of some help...
>
> Cheers,
>