I run and manage the website http://onedirection.net, and we've spent a lot of time recently trying to improve the loading speed of the site. There's a lot of content on the site which requires load time, but everything else is going smoothly.
In Chrome, we're very happy with the load speed, but things don't seem as good in IE9. In fact when we load the homepage up, it seems to pause for a while, but worse still when I click and hold the Back button, I can see about 6-7 redirects from the initial page load!
What is causing this? There are no redirects on the site, but it looks like the social media links and a couple of adverts are causing strange problems.
I've never seen this before, so I'm a bit stumped!
Also, the chat bar at the bottom of the site doesn't load properly on the homepage, but does on other pages.
Can anyone shed any light into what is causing these issues, and better still how to solve it?
Thanks,
Chris.
To be honest performance in Chrome isn't that great - from my home connection the page takes 11 seconds to load in Chrome.
Here's a waterfall for the home page in IE9 from a server in Dublin - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120901_NC_f64ed067693fda62238e67cce432f964/1/details/
The waterfall is pretty horrible to be honest - too many requests, too many domains, no prioritisation of content, javascript in the head loading in a blocking manner
I'd need to look in more depth but essentially due to the number of third party components you've lost control of your page load.
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So I have successfully built this business website, integrated payment gateways and I have things working just as I need them to but there's a little albeit annoying problem, when scrolling down the webpage on a mobile device, the page suddenly scrolls back up. I thought this was a problem without my chrome browser so I used other browsers still the issue persists. I currently don't know how to fix this irksome issue. Here's a link to the webpage. Sorry to bother you with my problem.
I already fixed it, it was a problem from setting the HTML style behavior to smooth. Thank you all for your intended help!
My Tumblr page does not load new pictures from photoset on some occasions. I have experienced this issue on Safari browser. The page is supposed to work like a blog of pictures that are on a chaos (different width is set for each picture, so that every picture is shown differently). After first X pictures, the website is supposed to load a new one beneath them (same as facebook post are functioning for example). This works fine on most devices and browsers, but recently it has stopped working on Safari on iPhones (but only at some cases, one time it is working, but other time it is not). It does not even show the symbol of loading on the end of the page and basically nothing happens when user scrolls down to the end of the page.
I have tried to search for any hints or information of similar issues that other have, but cant find anything that would help. I have also tried to write to Tumblr support, but no answer there yet.
If any of you have any idea what might cause the problem, please, try to answer!
For some reason when I use Chrome to test out my website, no images load at all, not even tiny ones like loading icons or the simple "back to top of page" arrow icon at the bottom. The browser tab just hangs on the spinning circle loading state. If I refresh it like 10 times or something then a portion of the images might load. Interestingly my Nivo-Slider images never load... there is a large empty space at where the Nivo-Slider gallery should be at the top left of my page no matter how many times I refresh.
The console is completely clean of errors if you check.
Can anyone check for me why my website is not working in Chrome? It works perfectly in Firefox/IE. I admit some images might have large file sizes but it shouldn't cause Chrome to hang for like half an hour?
I'm using latest Chrome/IE/Firefox. Windows 7 64-bit.
My website: www.symphonyofpromise.com/inspiration/en
By the way my website is a completely fictional museum/gallery project, it's not the official site for some museum!
I cannot be 100% certain on this, but judging from the Network panel, you might be loading too many MP3 files at the same time, thus maxing out the number of simultaneous requests. Chrome might use a different prioritization algorithm.
I would recommend removing some of those MP3 files and deferring loading until after the initial load.
EDIT:
Nevermind that, it appears that the MP3s load fine, but other resources are definitely blocking it. A request should never be pending this long. Poke around further in the Network panel and you'll find the problem.
Ive done all my Wordpress development in Firefox and I am using a caching plugin called W3 Total Cache.
The only problem I'm facing is that in Safari and Chrome, my navigation is being reloaded each time a user works their way through the navigation, I understand this is how the web works, that assets and content are being reloaded with each click. But in FF, its perfect, the nav appears to stay in place while the navigation is extended underneath > see http://spunfilms.samuelcane.com/ then http://spunfilms.samuelcane.com/work and then that pages children. Have a look at the site in Firefox and then in Chrome/Safari.
Has anyone got any ideas why I'm getting this inconsistency across browsers?
Is there a way around it?
Thanks,
Red
By using W3TC plugin in Wordpress, I managed to optimize the site to make the page load almost instantaneous. My problem was that the plugin wasn't configured properly. I took a look at some other sites using the plugin and tried to configure it accordingly.
I have a simple aspx page with some search options which queries an SQLEXpress database, and it is displayed in a gridview.
For some reason, it runs lightning fast in IE but very slow in Firefox.
It has very little code, a gridview a couple of images and a couple of textboxes and a search button. It was done with Expression Web so no additional code added.
In production (not local) the speed is very noticiable when doing a search...
IE displays the results almost instantly...Firefox might take 3-5 seconds.
And everything else runs super fast as well in IE (update, delete etc).
Is there a reason for this ? Thanks
what kind of extensions do you have in firefox? something like fasterfox may be sending multiple page requests
Maybe the problem is with your Firefox Instance, maybe some creepy Add-Ons you installed or maybe you should disable Firebug which causes problems like this.