Hi all,

I am in the middle of re-designing my website and have added a blending slide show with code that i got from dynamic drive. I have uploaded the website to my sample website and everything works fine but the problem is that it takes ages to load the index page as this is where the blending slide show is. I have resized the images but it has made no difference.

Any ideas how i can get the page to load faster?? The sample page is on www.samplewebsite.org.uk

Thanks for your time
Darren

It loads fast here???

Thanks for checking Roma, may be it was something to do with the computer i was on when it loaded slow.

Thanks for your help

Darren

No problems here either. The major bandwidth consumer is the slideshow. You could reduce its bandwidth footprint further by cropping and/or resizing the images to exactly fit the display space available. Also you could apply more jpg compression to the slideshow images. These two improvements should reduce the slideshow footprint to about half its present size.

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Here's a trick that might also help ?
(in addition to Bruceee's reduction)

Put the slideshow in a frame.

Inside the frame is a page with only
the first image of your slideshow
so that will show almost immidiatly
since that's only 1 image

Then you make a second page
with the full slideshow in it.

In the first page in the frame
you make a redirect (8 sec for example)
that will go to the page with the full
slideshow.

Since now on 1st loading your mainpage
only 1 image needs to be loaded
it will load faster.

There might be a drawback which is
the infamous "whiteflash" (very shortly
a white frame is shown)
In your case you may not notice that at all
since your background is white also.

It's just an idea
you choose what works the best.

A possible further improvement to a (percieved) loading-speed improvement
might be to keep the slideshow (script) or the slideshow in a frame
in the upper (Z) layer so at least the rest of the page will always load first.

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Testing loading-speed of pages should always be
done using a "clean" cache.

If you load a same page for the second time (refresh)
it then mostly takes the images from your computer's cache-memory
ie: the page and it's images now come from your computer's memory and not from the internet.
and therefore load much faster...a first time vistor will not have that.

So to do a realistic load-speed test you need to clear/clean cache. (everytime)
you can do that from your browser:

Extra's > Internet-options > Temporary-files > "remove"


Edit: i changed "browser-history" for "temporary-files" since the temporary files are the images ...etc


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