SSL site seal slowing load

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.

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

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.

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

Any ideas?

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

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,

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.

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.

mydanilo:

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

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.

If no other way comes up, I could use the editablesidebox instead. Did some tests and it works with the onclick pop up. Just have to switch over some styling and then it should work and I will ditch the godaddy sidebox.

Still interested in learning how I could solve the presented question in my last post.

I had the exact same problem with GoDaddy site seal. So I did what the OP asked initially and used a Static seal image which links to a seperate page with the seal:

https://www.limelites.co.uk to see it in action.

Seems to work well, but I'm still seriously considering a change over to a better host as GoDaddy is just unbearably slow!

Like your self made seal in the corner, would even be better if you can have it linked to the godaddy pop up?

I gave this a try in a sidebox. Have a look here:
http://www.mydanilo.com/store/

Used the godaddy seal picture and liked it up with the pop up code. Click my seal to test.

Looks good, works good. Perfecto :-)

I'm seriously thinking of changing over from GoDaddy though, the parse times I'm getting on my site are unheard of.

Good idea. I would never host with them.

BUT as long as you have a godaddy ssl seal, you will still experience the slow load of the SSL seal script. So the static picture is still a good idea.

limelites:

I had the exact same problem with GoDaddy site seal. So I did what the OP asked initially and used a Static seal image which links to a seperate page with the seal:

https://www.limelites.co.uk to see it in action.

Seems to work well, but I'm still seriously considering a change over to a better host as GoDaddy is just unbearably slow!

hi, how do you install the corner seal ?? thanks!

Anyone can help ?? Thank you.

I think the corner seal is done with this mod. Have a look:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=726

There might be a thread for it as well.

Thank you for this post, kobra.

My Authorize.net and Alpha SSL seals are in blank side boxes. They didn't slow down my site refresh quickly, but clicking on any link would cause a freaky refresh. I'm only using side boxes on the left, and they would go to the center and pop back to the left. I followed your instructions and, voilá, no more freaky refresh....YEAHHH!

mydanilo:

I think the corner seal is done with this mod. Have a look:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=726

There might be a thread for it as well.

This MOD did exactly what it was supposed to but, the heading of the box needs to be fixed. What file do I edit to fix this?

Please have a look at niagaraicewineshop.com

Thanks in advance

Robert