Tips on improving menu speed...

mikey · Post by **mikey** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 3:35 pm

It seems that the menu im using on my website loads laborously slow. Any suggestions? Here's a link:

http://www.northernlightfx.com/testcart.php

vs. the original:

http://www.northernlightfx.com/cart.php

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 3:48 pm

I think it has more to do with the graphics on the page.

However, remove obsolete values

menuwidth="";

and you can compress the file to make it smaller, but that will make it difficult to read so back up your uncompressed menu_data.js

maz

Post by **Ruth** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 4:17 pm

It seemed to load pretty fast for me, about 24 secs. I'm on a 56k dialup, so it's somewhere around 45 or so. The second page did load in about 1/2 the time, but it also doesn't have near as many images.
Very pretty design by the way.

Ruth

mikey · Post by **mikey** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 4:20 pm

Thanks for the help and kind words, I'll continue to work on it.

Post by **Andy** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 4:23 pm

Don't forget that a DHTML Menu will use far more processing than a standard SELECT box menu.

The DHTML Menu is having to build Divs, tables and hyperlinks.

I saw the menu appear in about 2 seconds on ADSL with a 3.06 P4 - I know it's high spec but is a benchmark. I have a Celeron 600 too, for testing if you'd like me to see how it performs on that machine?

Cheers
Andy

Post by **John** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:37 pm

It came up in 4 seconds flat for me (never mind what kind of line I'm on!).

In this code...

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aI("text=    ;");

...you might want to use   instead of plain spaces.

kevin3442 · Post by **kevin3442** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:33 pm

My two cents... or two seconds as it were. About 2 seconds for me over cable. Dude, that's fast! It doesn't appear to me taht you're using alot of images in the menus, so I don't know where you could trim speed much.

If you want, you could try moving the menu scripts out of the <head> and put them toward the bottom of the <body>, so that other things appear on the page first, to interest the visitor while the menus are loading.

Kevin