i developed a simple web site which uses ajax to load content and while the content is loading, i'm displaying a progress. Everything works as expected on 1st ajax call but after that, it becomes a mess
page gets stuck on ajax call
i've written a function to listen to ajax call and show loading message, it doesn't work too and the page becomes very laggy and slow after the 1st ajax call.
Here is my ajax function.
function loadPage(path) {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
context: document.body,
dataType: "html",
timeout: 10000,
url: path
});}
i tried to async to true but its true by default. still it didn't help. a demo of the problem can be seen at : REMOVED SINCE PROBLEM SOLVED
This works perfectly fine on the localhost but as soon as i uploaded it to my remote server,problems started to occur. can an expert please be kind point out what have i done wrong ? i tried removing all little the animations from this, non helped.
the problem was me loading javascript files on each ajax cal causing too many get and post requests and unnecessary dom changes.
your page seems to be slow with every click, because you are constantly loading JavaScript files on every click instead of just loaded the JavaScript once when the page loads, since you are grabbing the whole HTML page
like for instance.. every time you click on HOME .. these files are loaded in the page again..
POST http://3rsmj.com/new/home.html
GET http://3rsmj.com/new/js/liquid/jquery.easing.1.3.js?_=1382114556389
GET http://3rsmj.com/new/js/liquid/jquery.touchSwipe.min.js?_=1382114556390
GET http://3rsmj.com/new/js/liquid/jquery.liquid-slider-custom.min.js?_=1382114556391
if using AJAX its best to just load the content in or in fragments so not having to load all the scripts on every menu click .. or load the data and populate the data in the content
have you tried looking into the jQuery load() method for loading in HTML fragments so to not have to load in the whole HTML DOM again
http://api.jquery.com/load/
like this:
$("#load_area").load("portfolio_item.html #ID_of_content_to_grab");
the above would go to portfolio_item.html and grab the html fragment from the id #ID_of_content_to_grab and insert it into #load_area
UPDATE:
you can also try to empty the #load_area before you insert new content
$("#load_area").html("");
$("#load_area").load("portfolio_item.html #ID_of_content_to_grab");
or you can use jquery empty() .. or test both out
..
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I am using ajax to retrieve xml and xsl to create output HTML. when the processing is done, we are showing loading gif icons. For IE browser, the loading gif stops playing.. it freezes when there occurs an ajax postback. Could anyone suggest what could be done?
I guess you will be doing something like a jQuery's AJAX request. If so, in the success function, add this...
$.post({
url: 'url',
success: function(){
$('img').attr('src', $('img').attr('src'));
}
});
Found a solution... which worked. There were multiple postbacks, so calling one ajax post function at callback of another with setting async = true in jquery ajax solved the issue. There was no need of reloading the image.
I'm having troubles with a script, related to wordpress and ajax.. I think it loads really slow, and if I click a clicked link, it takes the exact same time (not caching)
What I'm doing is, loading single.php in other page. Each time a link-post is clicked, that post is loaded through Ajax inside a div.
jQuery.ajax({
'url':post_link,
'type':'POST',
'beforeSend': function(){
jQuery(".container").html('<img src="ajax-loader.gif" />');
},
'success':function(results){
// some functions
}
});
Any ideas what's the problem here?
HTTP POST instructions aren't cached; you need to use HTTP GET/HEAD if you want caching to occur.
As for why it's "slow", the information you've given isn't enough to go on.
i have a web page that once it loads, it sends a lot of Ajax calls to fill some parts of the page. It's a Django template, it's sending around six calls with code similar to this :
$.get("http://127.0.0.1:8000/purchase/?name="+me.username, function(data){
$("#purchase").append(data);
});
sometimes they are called when the user clicks on a button, but they are mostly called when the page is refreshed.
Im new to Ajax, and I want to know if it's the right way to use this technology in an optimal manner. Is it alright to send Ajax calls similar calls that are separate ?
Thanks
For now i think just put those $.get() scripts into a jQuery ready function if you want them to fire when page loads and not on refresh... And yes its normal for a page to behave like this. That's what AJAX is meant for.
$(document).ready(function(){
$.get("http://127.0.0.1:8000/purchase/?name="+me.username, function(data){
$("#purchase").append(data);
});
//other $.get 's
});
Also use the jQuery ready() documentation.
I have a mobile site which completely runs using AJAX, and hash code, basically each page click is a link, such as
<a href='http://some-domain.com/my-page-122.php" hash-id='122'>linkage</a>
Meaning that the page itself exists and it has ON IT google analytics page, HOWEVER, on the ajax request, I only ask to load a certein <div> on said page using jQuery's load(), so my question is:
because the page is called for in it's entirety with the google analytics code and everything, will it still record it as a page view even though only a portion is injected to the page?
The reason why I'm asking is because this site is getting around 500 uniques per day, and we want to change it to this new AJAXy form, so not recording analytics is a big no-no.
If you use jQuery you can bind to the global AjaxComplete event to fire a Pageview everytime an Ajax call completes:
jQuery(document).ajaxComplete(function(e, xhr, settings){
var d = document.location.pathname + document.location.search + document.location.hash;
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', d]);
});
If you update the Anchor every time you do an Ajax call this will fire the full path including the anchor part of the url.
Note that if you load content using .load that has the Google Analytics Tracking code in it, it will run that code and fire a second pageview. So you want to make sure you don;t include the GATC on the ajax content to avoid double pageviews.
Analytics won't record it automatically. Assuming you're using the asynchronous code you can record as many pageviews as you want by writing to the gaq array using an explicitly set URL:
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/home/landingPage']);
In this case you can build whatever URL you want where they have '/home/landingPage'. Note that if _gaq was already properly instantiated and _setAccount was already pushed then you only need to push the _trackPageview.
Also, the event can be in code returned by your AJAX, or it can be in the click event of your button or whatever is launching the AJAX request.
See http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiBasicConfiguration.html#_gat.GA_Tracker_._trackPageview
This is probably going to get a resounding no, but I am wondering if it possible to have the URl change dynamically with using hashing, and without invoking a http request from the browser?
My client is keen on using AJAX for main navigation. This is fine, when the end user goes to the front page first, but when they want to use the deep linking, despite it working, it forces an extra load time as the page loads the front page, then invokes the AJAX from the hash.
UPDATE: Could it be possible, given that what I want to avoid is the page reload (the reason is that it looks bad) to stem the reload by catching the hash with PHP before the headers are sent, and redirecting before the page load. This way only one page loads, and the redirect is all but invisible to the user. Not sure how to do this, but seems like it is possible?
Yes, this is possible. I often do this to store state in the hash part of the URL. The result is that the page doesn't reload, but if the user does reload, they're taken to the right page.
Using this method, the URL will look like: "/index#page=home" or "/index#page=about"
You'll need to write a JavaScript function that handles navigation, and you'll need a containing div that gets rewritten with the contents fetched from AJAX.
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<div id="content"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function link(page) {
location.hash = "page="+page;
loadPage(page);
}
// NOTE: This is using MooTools. Use the AJAX method in whatever
// JavaScript framework you're using.
function loadPage(page) {
new Request.HTML({
url: "/ajax/"+page+".html",
onSuccess: function(tree, elements, html) {
document.id('content').setProperty('html', html);
}
}).get();
}
</script>
Now, you'll also need to have something that checks the hash on page load to load the right content initially. Again, this is using MooTools, but use whatever onLoad method your JavaScript framework provides.
<script type="text/javascript">
document.addEvent('domready', function() {
parts = location.hash.split('=');
loadPage(parts[1]);
}
</script>
Ok, the problem is that opening an AJAX link of the form http://example.com/#xyz results in a full page being downloaded to the browser, and then the AJAX-altered content is changed once the page has loaded and checked the hash part of its URL. The user has a diconcerting experience.
You can hugely improve this by making a page that just contains the static elements - menus, etc. - and a loading GIF in the content area. This page checks its URL upon loading and dynamically fetches the content specified by the hash part. The page can have any URL you want; we'll use http://example.com/a. Links to this page (http://example.com/a#xyz) now provide a good user experience for users with scripting enabled.
However, new users won't come to the site by fetching http://example.com/a; they'll fetch http://example.com. This is fine - serve the full page, including the home page content and links that don't require scripting to work (e.g., http://example.com/xyz). A script run on loading this page should alter the href of AJAXable links to their AJAX form (http://example.com/a#xyz); thus the first link a user clicks on will result in a full page load but subsequent ones won't.
The only remaining problem is is a no-script user gets sent an AJAX link. You can add a noscript block to the AJAX page that contains a message explaining the problem and provides a link back to the homepage; you could include instructions on how to enable scripting or even how to modify the link by removing a# and pressing enter.
It's not a great answer, but you can offer a different link in the page itself; e.g., if the address bar shows /#xyz you include a link to /xyz somewhere in the page. You could also add a link or button that uses script to bookmark the page, which would again use the non-AJAX form of the link.