SSL site seal slowing load

[Decostyle]

Hi, was wondering if any other stores are experiencing a slowdown in load time when using the SSL site seal on a sidebox? I'm using godaddy site seal and it is located on a sidebox to the left. Everytime you navigate to another page, the site seal reloads so everything else in the center goes blank until the seal loads.

I was trying to see whether it was possible to just put a static image and when clicked will take you to the certificate itself. Is there a way to do this? the site seal code is in java script right now.

[kobra]

You can probably do that - - But you are also most likely on a slow. overloaded server

[mydanilo]

Slow server? Not necessarily, I have experienced the same problem but only in firefox. Not sure why. Sometimes it hangs until I press refresh. Server is loading fast at the time of problem, at least for me. Would be interested in the static picture of the godaddy ssl as well.

[sunflowertami]

I have the static image of godaddy ssl, just don't know how to make it link to the certificate when clicked.

Any ideas?

[rstevenson]

I noticed that the server sending out my site seals was a bit slow, so I ended up putting the seal in the footer. The rest of the page loads fast, and on most pages the seal is down out of sight, so nobody notices that something is still loading. They can go on using the product listing or whatever just fine.

Check it out on either site in my sig.

Rob

[GDSupport]

Hi Decostyle,

Sorry you've had trouble. I spoke to the Technical Manager of our SSL team who thought this post would be helpful to you:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97694

Regards,

[mydanilo]

GDSupport, the problem is not to get the seal in the side box. That works just fine. The problem is that the seal sometimes takes forever to load. The script even seems to hang. Sometimes only hitting the refresh button helps. Other times it loads just fine. Seems to be more often the problem with firefox for me. (Well I use it 99% of the time :))

So the workaround would be to have a static logo in the side box and no animated effect. Click would still pop up the verification screen. This would still be a trust worthy thing. Just don't know how to do this.

[yellow1912]

If you use remote js, and the remote server is having some connection problem then you will suffer as well.

@mydanilo: your way will work, just try to grasp the code generated by the js and then paste it into the template file.

[kobra]

The problem is that the seal sometimes takes forever to load. The script even seems to hang.

Well GD is fairly known for "Slow" servers and it appears that their SSL validate servers are slow as well....

To do this you should hover over the seal and copy down the site reference that it will load for the validation pop-up
For geo-trust it looks like this

http:smarticon.geotrust.com/smarticonprofile?Referer=http://www.domain.com

So you display your static image with this as the href and the static image as the src similar to and adjust for your image details and href:

<a href="http:smarticon.geotrust.com/smarticonprofile?Referer=http://www.domain.com" target="_blank"><img src="images/your_static_image.jpg" alt="Some_Alt_Text" width="100" height="80" /></a>

Use target=blank to open this link in a new window or apply the js for a popup

[mydanilo]

I have tried this:

 $content .= '<p><a href="https://seal.godaddy.com/verifySeal?sealID=201172394902826c75f127119a6f58dc917cc6035554991772270102" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=no,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=550,height=460,status'); return false"><img src="http://www.mydanilo.com/images/godaddyseal.jpg" alt="GoDaddy Seal" /></a></p>'; 

But it prevents my pages to load. Do I have to put script type="text/javascript" stuff somewhere in my side box template as well?

The above code works just fine if I use it on any defines page content but not in my sidebox. How would I do this pop up?

It worked fine with target=blank to open in a new window, but I want this to open in a small pop up window only.