Problem with slow loading pages

website takes too long to load

[eshmael]

After uploading flash file/html my site loads fast for broadband, but not for dial-up. I upgraded site to Linux for more bandwith, but did not help. I really prefer not to cut music and images for the sake of dial-up. Please help.

[Krapulator]

You could look into http compression to compress the size of your html files (which will give you some speed improvement assuming your html files are bigger than 10 or 15k).

Have you optimized the images within your flash to be as small as possible without losing quality?

Have you compressed the music in your flash/on your site to be as small as possible without losing too much quality?

The fact is that flash and/or audio files are always going to load slowly on dial-up connections. You need to determine whether your target audience is more likely to be on dial-up or broadband and tailor your site accordingly.

[frenzy77]

Hi
eshmael:)

Regarding your question...

I don't know if you have your website designed with CSS, but i believe if you do use it to design your website, it should speed up the loading process of your website. I believe it does this because you eliminate alot of the html tags in the source code and this causes the loading of the site to speed up. You should ask around in the forums to be sure before
you re-design your site using CSS.

Well i hope this helps:)

Good luck:)

frenzy77

[alex77]

For modem dialup, they're normally using text compression already so compressing your html files won't help too much. Also, for doing it on the webserver you'll require mod_deflate to be active (and probably have access to your webserver's config, which is usually not the case for hosted sites).

You should try to minimize your page size, though. Is it possible to have a frameset, for example keeping a fancy flash navigation in a seperate frame will eliminate the necessity to reload it every time. Have a look at cache-control meta tags also, to make sure your stuff gets cached in the browser (if the webserver isn't configured accordingly).

If all doesn't help, you can create an entry page and offer two versions of your site, one flash and one pure html for those who still got dialup, no flash plugin installed or simply don't want things to be flashing and beeping :)

[wheel]

As one starting point, get the book 'Spped up your site' published by new riders. It's got some great tips on how to cut your page size pretty dramatically with no visible change. Plus there's some info in there on how to set up tables so that the visually load a lot faster for dialup folks.

[Krapulator]

For modem dialup, they're normally using text compression already so compressing your html files won't help too much

Http compression will still add significant speed improvement for a modem using compression.