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Guys (& Gals), I am getting an increasing number of people saying that my site - http://www.fansfocus.com - is very slow. Originally it seemed to be related to Norton's - but now people who do not use Norton's are being affected. I do however have an issue on my desktop (laptop is fine), whereby the left portal column stays fully expanded for several seconds, before reducing to the correct size. But I do not get this on my laptop. Both using FF on the same connection. Other users are just reporting a white screen waiting ages for anything including the top banner to load. Some have said that the problem only started a couple of days ago - others have said it has been slow for a while. Nothing has changed on the server, nor with the software - nothing has been touched for a while. The load seems fine on the server, and am not getting any other issues reported. I am at a loss, and am losing traffic fast
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No, YOUR site is not slow, but you have something being served by footballwebpages.co.uk that's painfully slow and because of it any code on the page after that takes time to fully load. Surely that has a lot of div and table element closures, hence making your site look misshapen until it finally all gets loaded.
Take out or somehow reduce the footballwebpages content and then ask your users to look again.
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Thanks David.
Which particular page are you looking at?
I do pull in data from that site - but not on any of the forum pages AFAIK. They are separate pages.
Or have I done something that I have forgotten LOL
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Hmm... okay - you mean the index page.
I will edit that for the time being - I wonder if that is where people are stopping - assumed they were having issues on the forum pages - will need to check.
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okay - I have removed all the tables on the index page for now - will see how it goes for folks.
Thanks.
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i found that when i moved a site (which you didn't do, of course) that there were a lot of broken images (forum images) for cfrm. it's easy with FF and Web developer addon to 'view broken images' to see if there might be some..
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also, there's something strange with your google syndication stuff. can't tell if that's broken image or what, because it's garbled in the broken image report
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Thanks corrected. replaced with my own blank pixel
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also, there's something strange with your google syndication stuff. can't tell if that's broken image or what, because it's garbled in the broken image report Left hand google ads are:- $time = time();
/* BODY HERE */
$body = <<<EOF
<center>
<a href="http://travis.bosscasinos.com/re.asp?name=POK&camp=REF121658_0&go=http://www.snapshotpoker.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.fansfocus.com/images/banner2.gif" alt="Snapshot Poker" border="0"></a>
<br /> <br />
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-4711273843698100";
google_ad_width = 150;
google_ad_height = 600;
google_ad_format = "120x600_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
google_ad_channel = "7536651497";
google_color_border = "f9f9f9";
google_color_bg = "F9F9F9";
google_color_link = "135060";
google_color_text = "333333";
google_color_url = "135060";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
<br /> <br />
<a href="http://travis.bosscasinos.com/re.asp?name=POK&camp=REF121658_0&go=http://www.snapshotpoker.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.fansfocus.com/images/banner3.gif" alt="Snapshot Poker" border="0"></a>
</center>
EOF; Which all looks fine AFAIK.
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BTW - I still see the left margin stay wide for a long time - here it stays wider for a second or less (and not as wide for that matter - mine is as wide as the page).
I must have missed something on the page causing this - but scanning the code is not showing up anything obvious.
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The behaviour i was seeing on the index page is corrected now. Your site loads quickly for me now. Even drilling down through the forums I see no slowness.
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Must be my menu system As this is pivotal to the whole site, I can't really disable it at the moment. Deep joy LOL
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The behaviour i was seeing on the index page is corrected now. Your site loads quickly for me now. Even drilling down through the forums I see no slowness. Thanks David - will see how it goes. As it has only recently started happening - I am guessing that the third party site is having some issues with serving the data, as those tables have been there for a good year or so.
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Of course it doesn't help when one gets issues reported as... All pages although it is now just showing the green loading bar at the bottom before turning the page What I mean is its stuck on the page and just showing the green bar thing at the bottom (even on messages) Sorry, not very good at explaining computer stuff. Cheers and Internet Explorer 6 is the browser (I presume thats what you mean) When you press enter the screem immediately turns over but goes white and says along the bottom waiting for http fans focus etc. After about 30 secs you then get the fans focus banner across the top but still a white screen and then the page appears. I think asking them for a screen grab is out of the question LOL
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I use http://www.websiteoptimization.com whenever I have a problem with a slow loading site, and it pointed a ton of things out You have 56 unique images on the index page, and you load images/scripts/iframes from a total of 8 foreign domains The uncompressed html of your index page, not including the pages you include via iframe is over half a megabyte. That's just the html. My firefox almost crashed just trying to copy that from view source.
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Thanks - will take a look - I have temporarily removed some of the ads, but the bulk of that html is in the menu - which will only grow, not reduce But it is compressed on the screen. This is due to the number of sub-menus etc. The number of images can't really be reduced any further.
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CSS Menu's > JavaScript Menu's
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find me something decent then, that will work the same way as my current menu - I need to have over a 1,000 links within it. It just isn't possible I did search and could not find anything decent, reliable and that wasn't written 10 years ago LOL The current menu will stay open/closed at whatever the user wishes via a cookie - so the menu is always the same whenever they visit. The menu has to cater for all sections of the site.
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google "css menu", i'm sure you'll find several hundred things... and none will be 10 years old, as the type of menu's i'm referancing have only been mainstream for the last several years...
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okay - maybe not 10 years - but still quite old - I tend to avoid anything older than 2 years LOL
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holy crap.. 1000 menu items ?? dude, css won't do any better for you than js. you need to rethink it. regardless of what you use, you are still sending 1000 menu items worth of data on each page imprint. whether they show up as hidden divs or not and they get show/hidden with clicks.. they still impact you the same, because the browser got it, but didn't render the display:none stuff. you need to think about a more parcelled approach where you possibly send the level 1 menu items first. then with a click, you ajax the level 2 items for the level 1 item clicked. etc etc. if it's already slow with x number of menu items, it's gonna be a lot slower as you add more to it. i'd look into parcellin it up...
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If I could I would My skill level is just not there LOL
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I think i had something similar a couple of years ago with DHTML menus. Even at 10 drop links it went sllllooooowww. Maxed with 5 and everything corrected its self and speeded up. Can you not just make a single table full of all these 1,000 links on its own dedicated page? Or throw them in a db ?? And then link to the 1,000 link page as "links"? Simple sometimes is your friend
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To be honest at the moment, I can't see an easier way to do this - layout is not my strong point LOL
It wouldn't be too bad if I could have some code which said..
if menu option is open include this bit of code (sub-navigation items) if menu selection is closed do not include this extra code
So in affect all that remains on the page initially is half a dozen links.
I am not really sure if this is do-able.
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I am not really sure if this is do-able. What would be doable I think is with ajax. As soon as a new branch is opened, the stuff would be loaded through ajax. Lucky thing for you, I don't know anything more about this then what I just typed
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I am not really sure if this is do-able. What would be doable I think is with ajax. As soon as a new branch is opened, the stuff would be loaded through ajax. Lucky thing for you, I don't know anything more about this then what I just typed Well that is no good
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hehe, mr Yarp made a funny Ian, start learning some programming. Here is a start It's combo bombo problem solve + programming.. call me when you're done
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It can be done simpler, but then clicking an unopened item would cause a page-refresh. A database field could remember what submenu would be opened for that user, or a cookie.
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don't worry - I have removed the menu - I will do something else.
Mind you the way I am feeling right now - I will probably scrap the site - getting too old for all this hassle from users LOL
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lol, a more BOFH attitude will put them in their place
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