ZX Slideshow support thread

[picandnix]

Firstly can I say what an awesome mod, I love it!

I have a slight issue in Internet Explorer, my slider just hovers as a blank white box...
In other browsers (firefox, chrome, opera, safari) it is fine, just IE that has a problem. Any ideas?

www. shabbylane .co.uk

Many thanks

[balihr]

Firstly can I say what an awesome mod, I love it!

Glad to hear that!

I have a slight issue in Internet Explorer, my slider just hovers as a blank white box...
In other browsers (firefox, chrome, opera, safari) it is fine, just IE that has a problem. Any ideas?

What version of IE are you using? I just tested with IE9 and compatibility mod for IE8 and IE7 and it works fine...

Although - it's extremely slow to load - you have 10 slides and you haven't optimized the images (250 kB average) which means loading more than 2.5 MB just for the slideshow. And, the slideshow images are loaded on DOM ready which means the slides don't even start to load until the rest of the page elements are loaded. Even without the slide images, your site is aprox. 1 MB (too much)... Perhaps you should just leave it and wait to see if loads after let's say 30-40 seconds, depending on your internet connection, server load etc.

[picandnix]

Glad to hear that!


What version of IE are you using? I just tested with IE9 and compatibility mod for IE8 and IE7 and it works fine...

Although - it's extremely slow to load - you have 10 slides and you haven't optimized the images (250 kB average) which means loading more than 2.5 MB just for the slideshow. And, the slideshow images are loaded on DOM ready which means the slides don't even start to load until the rest of the page elements are loaded. Even without the slide images, your site is aprox. 1 MB (too much)... Perhaps you should just leave it and wait to see if loads after let's say 30-40 seconds, depending on your internet connection, server load etc.

Hi Balihr
Thank you for taking the time to look at it for me. I have optimized my slider images and I have also gone from having 10 images down to 5 but it still seems painfully slow in loading. Any thoughts please? www.shabby lane .co.uk
Thank you once again.
P.S what does DOM mean please? I was checking it in IE 9 for your reference.

[balihr]

I just checked your site and I don't think it's painfully slow. Just the contrary - it's quite fast. Take a look at the test results here.

Although there are a few more things that could be done and make the site even more fast and more optimized, these results are really good so I'm not really sure why YOU don't get good load times. I tested with multiple browsers and it loads quite fast, and the browsing experience is great, really fast...

[picandnix]

I just checked your site and I don't think it's painfully slow. Just the contrary - it's quite fast. Take a look at the test results here.

Although there are a few more things that could be done and make the site even more fast and more optimized, these results are really good so I'm not really sure why YOU don't get good load times. I tested with multiple browsers and it loads quite fast, and the browsing experience is great, really fast...

Balihr you have just put a smile of relief on my face, thank you :-) I guess it must just my connection speed.
Please say if it's out of the remit of this thread (or maybe PM me a to-do list pretty please), but what else would you recommend I could do to further optimize or enhance performance please?
Thank you so much once again.

[balihr]

Balihr you have just put a smile of relief on my face, thank you :-) I guess it must just my connection speed.
Please say if it's out of the remit of this thread (or maybe PM me a to-do list pretty please), but what else would you recommend I could do to further optimize or enhance performance please?
Thank you so much once again.

Yup, this would be completely OT and I'd like to keep the thread as clean as possible for others who might wanna read it... Will PM you.