[thelist] Site Loads too Slowly

[Ornstein, Ian]

I took a look and yes it does take excessively long to load even on our
lan connection.
Although it looks nice when it finishes.

Have you tried loading similar page without the menus?

I read some of the javascript and saw that it builds menu
objects at run time. I wonder if you were to sacrifice the
maintainablilty by prebuilding the menu objects, would it run
any faster?

Also, if you are deliberately buffering until the
entire page is loaded before sending anything to the
browser, you may want to change it so that is does
send *something* while it is finishing loading.

HTH

Ian Ornstein - Programmer and Web Developer
IBM Global Services, Global AMS Delivery
(704) 509-8022 


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Crawford [mailto:jcrawford at avencom.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:57 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Site Loads too Slowly


"Stephens, Ann" wrote:
> > I've just updated a site (http://www.ci.concord.ca.us) that uses
> > JavaScript menus (from Fireworks popup feature) and has a few more
> > graphics than I've used in the past. The site loads too slowly and I'd
> > like suggestions on getting it to load more quickly. I think it's the
> > JavaScript that's the main culprit. The menus and the script that runs
> > them are being called from the pages. I noticed these scripts have been
> > cached on my computer so I'm assuming they're quicker to get to than if
> > they weren't. (I did a test without the fancy menus and the page loaded
> > pretty quickly.) Any help would be greatly appreciated!