How best can I control my web so a user sees "something" quickly?

[Dan E]

I have a couple of webs (see www.preferredcountry.com for example), and they
both load (on occasion) fairly slowly - 30 seconds or more when the web is
busy, even though I'm on a "server priority" developer shared hosting plan.
FP 2003 tells me that the home page should take about 30 seconds at 56 kbps,
but I'm seeing 30 seconds with DSL. I seem to remember there's a way to set
the order of loading elements (or something), so that the user sees that
something is loading, and doesn't get fed up that nothing is visible and
goes elsewhere; for the life of me I can't find even a hint of doing this in
the FP 2003 Help system. I know I need to reduce the size of some of my
grahics files, but none of them are what you'd call big now.

Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated and acknowledged.

TIA

Dan

 

[Tom Willett]

Your load time has to do with all the images at the bottom that you have
linked to external sites.

 

[Dan E]

Thanks, Tom - I'll check it out.

Dan

Your load time has to do with all the images at the bottom that you have
linked to external sites.

 

[PCTEK]

It looks like the culprit is "mplogbut.gif". It tries for several seconds
to load this image at the bottom of your page and ends up failing to load.
I think if you fix it the rest will load just fine - doesn't look like there
any big file sizes among your images.

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Paul Robinson
Abacus Computer Consultants

Thanks, Tom - I'll check it out.

Dan

 

[Tom Willett]

Since all of the images on the bottom are pulled from external sites, the
page will take some time to completely load. However, I agree about
mplogbut.gif...it can't find the image.

 

[Dan E]

Many thanks, Paul - yeah - it's a dead link - I should have noticed that.
How could you see that it tried for several seconds to load that particular
image? Some trick I might find useful?

Thanks again,

Dan

 

[Dan E]

Thanks, Tom. I'm pulling that dead link, and will use local copies of the
link images.

Thanks again,

Dan

 

[Steve Easton]

If you have IE set to display the status bar, you'll see that the progress bar never
completes.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
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http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm

 

[Tom Willett]

Ah, local copies of the link images. I was going to suggest that, so glad
you thought about it. Will make a lot of difference, since your page won't
be going to other sites to download them.

 

[Dan E]

Got it! Thanks, Steve.

Dan

If you have IE set to display the status bar, you'll see that the progress
bar never completes.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm