Eeeeediot Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 http://www2.union.ic.ac.uk/osc/iraqi/ That is the website I designed for a university club last May, but now coming back to updating it a bit in the new autumn term, theres some wierd behaviour in IE. It might be just me from a designers point of view though? Does clicking on ANY link in IE give you a 3 second delay before the new page is loaded? Compare with opening it up in Fx/Opera and seeing how it loads there. Or is it maybe just the rendering engine differences? I recall that it used to load just as quickly in IE when I designed the site earlier in the year. Its really getting on my nerves as all the users will be IE (uni people using uni computers) and well, I'd really like to find the source of this problem and fix it. Any clever ideas? EDIT - changed link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Doesnt load at all for me :( Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eeeeediot Posted October 7, 2006 Author Share Posted October 7, 2006 Doesnt load at all for me :( Ooops sorry, guess I shouldn't have changed the name servers after I posted the URL, boy that was stupid. It just forwards you to the site on the union servers so heres the direct URL: http://www2.union.ic.ac.uk/osc/iraqi/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonda Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 works fine here ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiser Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 I've got that 3 second delay you are talking about, but I have no idea what would be causing it. The code looks fine, FireFox renders it perfectly, the only thing I can think it may be would be server settings, but that's just a wild guess. :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eeeeediot Posted October 8, 2006 Author Share Posted October 8, 2006 Doubt its server settings, another site I built myself and countless other club sites work fine. See example. Could other people at least just visit the link and confirm/deny the 3 second lag when clicking links in IE and waiting for pages to load? http://www2.union.ic.ac.uk/osc/iraqi/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rcty Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 It's pretty laggy for me. It took it about 30 secs to load and then when I click on a link there seems to be a laaaaaaag. ~Rcty Rcty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 4 seconds to open/display main site. 5 seconds to open gallery link. Windows 2000 & IE 6.0.2800.1106CO. Using the works corporate connection too, so it's not limited here. Opens a standard link in just under 2 seconds. So yeah, it is a bit on the slow side. :-s Notoriously Trollish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eeeeediot Posted October 9, 2006 Author Share Posted October 9, 2006 Well just got to uni and the links seem to be opening fine in IE just like they did in Fx at home. Uni computers are running IE 6.0.2900.2180. Any other input from IE users? Last resort might be to try copying the site on to a different server and see how it runs there :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Loads fine in FF, horrible lag in IE tho. I cant think what it might be tho :( Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 I thought it might have something to do with how many requests each browser sends. I'm sure IE can only send something like 2 requests to the same server at the same time. Where-as Firefox can send a lot more. Tested the theory with Firefox at work on another machine. I put Firefox down to 2 requests, although the speed did decrease quite a bit. It still wasn't anywhere near as slow as IE. When I get home I'll set up a Virtual machine and try the site out with IE7 and maybe IE5.5. Notoriously Trollish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albosky Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 got the 3-5 second lag between page on IE , and no lag on Firefox and opera here As IE has a horrible time with error checking and the slightest little typo can through off a page , I'll add a few little quirks that i noticed , who knows they might be part of the problem You have an extra end quote there after the file name Although i dont quite understand why you are using @import to call it if it is defined on the line right above it all line break tags should actually be since you are trying to adhere to the XHTML standard. Will keep my eyes open , but thats all I really noticed at first glance I like to fart silently but deadly in movie theatersArd Choille says (11:41 PM):I wouldn't dare tell you what to do m'dear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharper Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Your XHTML/CSS is not causing the delay. It is your PHP code or the web server. The website loads fine as a static page locally on my computer, but as soon as you do all the fancy includes etc with your PHP code it kills IE. I'd start by looking at your PHP code then perhaps some mega-omg-we-don't-like-IE settings in the web server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 I just tried it with IE7 (RC1) and you still get that delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eeeeediot Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 Albosky, you probably get this from a lot of people, but: I :3> you. Turns out it was the extra end quote on the end of the @import, wierd or what? http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/osc/iraqi/index.php On the normal site, I totally removed the @import as the css file is already referred to as Albosky said. Don't know why its there and couldn't dig up the reason in the gallery documentation. http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/osc/iraqi/index2.php Here, the @import is still there but without the extra end quote and its working fine. This is just to show its not the @import that caused the lag, but rather the extra end quote which is demonstrated on the page below where I have not corrected it: http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/osc/iraqi/index3.php Like I said, it wasn't server stuff as I run another site thats works fine. And to be honest, I have no idea how that extra end quote got in there sometime over the past few months while the site has been running as it was fine before. Probably some dumb mistake by yours truly, always human error eh? Thanks all, site is working like a beauty now :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharper Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 That's strange that it loaded fine for me locally, I wouldn't mind knowing why that was :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonda Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Just as a sidenote - sharper, why would it be there webhost / server if there is no problem loading the page in FF, but an added delay when opening it with IE. That makes no sense. Think about things before you point fingers. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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