Is there anyone who can point me in the direction of any credible piece on improving the apparent screen display of html pages (or can answer me here)<br />
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Type of frustration I am having. A "typical" html page on my site would be about 25k html source, have 1 or 2 jpg files of about 15-20k, 5 or 6 jpegs of 1-3k, a dozen or so 1k javascript files (to hide external links from search engines) and an external javascript script (for menuing) of about 25k.<br />
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The code seems to Download <!--more--> smoothly enough to the browser but takes an age to actually display anything on screen. When it does, it displays 100% of the page everything perfect. I have noticed other sites start displaying objects on screen much sooner, gradually assembling the page on screen, this if nothing else gives an illusion of faster loading.<br />
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I have tried taking out all the component parts of my pages to see if there is any one thing causing the delay - but no there isn't.<br />
Any ideas on improving the apparent speed of display ?<!--content-->Originally posted by bigH <br />
Is there anyone who can point me in the direction ------<br />
have 1 or 2 jpg files of about 15-20k, 5 or 6 jpegs of 1-3k, a dozen or so 1k javascript files --- and an external javascript script (for menuing) of about 25k.<br />
-------takes an age to actually display --------- I have noticed other sites start displaying objects on screen much sooner, gradually assembling the page on screen, this if nothing else gives an illusion of faster loading.<br />
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Any ideas on improving the apparent speed of display ? <br />
Don't know if you are using pre-load of images,(that would help). There is code you can find with a search for that. <br />
A quick fix can be to add some of the images at the bottom of a preceeding page in this fashion. <img src=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"tan.jpg" width="0" height="0"><br />
Also make sure that your images are not actually larger than the size you code them to be on the page.<!--content-->My guess.. You are using tables to layout your screen. The table contents will not be displayed until the </table> tag is reached. If you are nesting tables, this applies to the outer most table.<!--content-->Originally posted by nedals <br />
My guess.. You are using tables to layout your screen. The table contents will not be displayed until the </table> tag is reached. If you are nesting tables, this applies to the outer most table. <br />
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Thanks - I think you've given me a valid direction to progress<!--content-->There's an interesting article on Webreference about optimisation you could look at:<br />
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Adam<!--content-->
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Type of frustration I am having. A "typical" html page on my site would be about 25k html source, have 1 or 2 jpg files of about 15-20k, 5 or 6 jpegs of 1-3k, a dozen or so 1k javascript files (to hide external links from search engines) and an external javascript script (for menuing) of about 25k.<br />
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The code seems to Download <!--more--> smoothly enough to the browser but takes an age to actually display anything on screen. When it does, it displays 100% of the page everything perfect. I have noticed other sites start displaying objects on screen much sooner, gradually assembling the page on screen, this if nothing else gives an illusion of faster loading.<br />
<br />
I have tried taking out all the component parts of my pages to see if there is any one thing causing the delay - but no there isn't.<br />
Any ideas on improving the apparent speed of display ?<!--content-->Originally posted by bigH <br />
Is there anyone who can point me in the direction ------<br />
have 1 or 2 jpg files of about 15-20k, 5 or 6 jpegs of 1-3k, a dozen or so 1k javascript files --- and an external javascript script (for menuing) of about 25k.<br />
-------takes an age to actually display --------- I have noticed other sites start displaying objects on screen much sooner, gradually assembling the page on screen, this if nothing else gives an illusion of faster loading.<br />
--------<br />
Any ideas on improving the apparent speed of display ? <br />
Don't know if you are using pre-load of images,(that would help). There is code you can find with a search for that. <br />
A quick fix can be to add some of the images at the bottom of a preceeding page in this fashion. <img src=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"tan.jpg" width="0" height="0"><br />
Also make sure that your images are not actually larger than the size you code them to be on the page.<!--content-->My guess.. You are using tables to layout your screen. The table contents will not be displayed until the </table> tag is reached. If you are nesting tables, this applies to the outer most table.<!--content-->Originally posted by nedals <br />
My guess.. You are using tables to layout your screen. The table contents will not be displayed until the </table> tag is reached. If you are nesting tables, this applies to the outer most table. <br />
<br />
Thanks - I think you've given me a valid direction to progress<!--content-->There's an interesting article on Webreference about optimisation you could look at:<br />
<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/html/optimize/index.html">http://www.webreference.com/authoring/l ... index.html</a><!-- m --><br />
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Adam<!--content-->