decreasing page load time in IE

pildesign said 1 year, 3 months ago:

Hello,

On my webpages I have anywhere from two to twenty data tables that display product images. It takes quite a while for the pages to load in internet explorer (They load pretty quickly in firefox). Is there a way I can make them load faster in IE?

Thanks!

mike42 said 1 year, 3 months ago:

@pildesign,

If you have a shared hosting account with us, the information at the link below may provide helpful:

How can I speed up my site?

http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5780

If you’re still having issues with page load times, can you provide the URL of the page where the issue is being experienced, so that we can further review?

Thanks.
–Mike

bcb said 1 year, 3 months ago:

@pildesign

Do you have some URLs I could look into to see if I can determine what is causing the performance differences? Also, what versions of IE and Firefox are you using to test with?

Regards,
Brad B.
Easy Database Developer

pildesign said 1 year, 3 months ago:

I’d love to but it is a password protected site and I don’t want to post the password and username here. Any suggestions?

JasonP said 1 year, 3 months ago:

@pildesign

I completely understand and agree! I am going to reach out to you directly to move forward.

Jason

pildesign said 1 year, 3 months ago:

Hello,

I was sent an email by Godaddy on Friday and I sent the relevant info. I was wondering if there has been any progress so far.

Thanks!

JasonP said 1 year, 3 months ago:

@pildesign

I have re-sent a request for information to assist you. Please respond directly to the email.

Jason

bcb said 1 year, 3 months ago:

@pildesign

First off, your site looks fantastic! You’ve done an amazing job customizing the look with CSS.

I checked out your ornaments page and noticed that almost 500 requests were made for a total of about 18mb of data. That is a lot of requests and data.

I did see what you meant by IE taking longer to load. What is happening is that IE is blocking the page render until all the javascript for the page has finished loading. Firefox starts rendering the page as soon as possible. Browsers limit the number of requests that can be made simultaneously to a single host. The number varies between browsers and versions, for most browsers it is about 6-8, but some older browsers it was less.

You could optimize the image files so they were smaller. That would allow the pages to load faster, but the best thing to do to speed up your page loads is to limit the number of requests that are made to the server. My advice is to split up your widgets onto separate pages with only a few widgets per page at most. This will make your pages load much faster and be more responsive for your users.

Also, I did notice in IE, at least IE8, that your images had scrollbars surrounding them. You may want to add a “overflow: hidden !important;” CSS rule to the “.Data_Central_Photo_Column” selector.

I hope that helps, and sorry I could not give you a better solution.

Regards,
Brad B.
Easy Database Developer

pildesign said 1 year, 2 months ago:

Thanks for taking a look at it and for pointing out those scrollbars. I don’t have that problem in IE7.
What if I make an iframe for each of the widgets? Would the page load more progressively that way?

bcb said 1 year, 2 months ago:

Yes, I believe putting them into iframes will prevent IE from blocking rendering like it is doing now. But I have not tested it to be sure. When using iframes you may run into scrollbar issues since you have to set a width and height on the iframe.

pildesign said 1 year, 2 months ago:

Then is there a way I could change the way a users computer caches a page – so that they don’t have to necessarily get info from the database every time they load the page. A way for them to see the updated info once a week or once every two weeks would be fine. That way the content is stored on the computer and there are less server requests.