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des



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:09 pm    Post subject: Component in sidebar downloads in center Reply with quote

Recently I moved some components around in http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com
and now when I open my blogsite, the component at the top of the left sidebar downloads before anything else, in the center of the screen, then the rest of the site downloads.

I've checked the code and can't see that I've done anything in particular to create that effect.

Not greatly bothered by it, just curious. Any suggestions/comments?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:18 pm    Post subject: Re: Component in sidebar downloads in center Reply with quote

What you are seeing is normal. It can actually take quite some time for a web browser to be able to determine precisely what the layout of a page is supposed to be. It needs to first download the raw HTML from our server, then any images, stylesheets and Javascripts. Once those are downloaded, it has to process them and determine their indivudual output or rendering. Especially when there are a lot of third party images and Javascripts, it can take many seconds even on a fast connection before all of the elements are downloaded and then interpreted by the browser allowing it to render the final output of a web page.

Rather than wait until it's got everything, it will start trying to display what it has after just a few seconds. What you're seeing is the browser trying to display what it has so far instead of waiting to receive and interpret the rest of the elements on the page before displaying the page in its entirety.

If you take a look at the Web Page Analyzer it will actually show that your home page requires 39 http requests to load, from a variety of sites. Your home page in fact loads content from 19 web sites other than your own... So there will be some delay in rendering your page, and you're just seeing the browser attempt to give you something now instead of everything later...
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des



Joined: 31 Dec 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Your home page in fact loads content from 19 web sites other than your own...


Thanks John
Sounds like simplification time has arrived!
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