have just finished my first site in freeway http://www.sarahladipomanyika.com
it is pretty basic. However when it loads it takes a sec for the background image to load so it flashes to the color behind the image for a breif second. once the page is cached this is not a issue.
Is there a way to prevent this to get the background image to load first?
thanks in advance
Your connection isn’t fast enough. It works fine on my MacPro 8 quad.
Brian
On Sep 15, 2008, at 4:14 PM, ROBERT BIRNBACH wrote:
have just finished my first site in freeway http://www.sarahladipomanyika.com
it is pretty basic. However when it loads it takes a sec for the background image to load so it flashes to the color behind the image for a breif second. once the page is cached this is not a issue.
Is there a way to prevent this to get the background image to load first?
thanks in advance
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I see what was mentioned on the site and I’m on super fast cable here in the States. I doubt it’s a connection issue considering the file size for the graphic background is super small.
I don’t know why it does this, but I do see what you mean.
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This is one of those things that you either get used to, or start making your pages in Flash (and give up all hope, in other words). There are lots of tricks that attempt to mask the loading process, but in the end, the transition from empty frame to finished page is entirely out of your hands.
Each element of the page (images, scripts, HTML, etc.) take individual paths from server to browser, and that’s not even accounting for the fact that each element can be split across multiple packets and each packet can take an independent route across the Internet.
Browsers attempt to streamline the loading process by opening multiple “threads” from the server to load the content in parallel. The number of these is sometimes configurable, but usually ends up being two to four at a time.
Finally, each element is requested in the order it appears in the source code, but depending on its size, the phase of the moon, etc, it might not come back to the browser in the same order requested. Smaller things arrive sooner, large things take longer, and the browser does its best to put the kit of parts together in a reasonable manner, reserving space for the parts that have declared themselves to be “on their way”.
You can reassure yourself that this is the way HTML works – that every Web page that ever loaded follows these same rules – and get on with making the finished page look the way you want it to. Just as you can’t taste your own tongue, your visitors don’t realize that anything is wrong with your page – because it’s just like every other page out there.
Walter
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Try this:-
look in Safari > Developers Menu > Network Timeline (enable this menu in Safari preferences)
Your background image (images-7.jpeg) is the largest file being 32.94k. Whereas the (sarah19of23fscop.jpeg) pic is only 16.31k - half the size) and is loading quicker/before the background image has completed.
So if you make (optimise) this background image (images-7.jpeg) to be smaller than 16.31k, the problem could be lessened and possibly solved.
David
On 15 Sep 2008, at 21:14, ROBERT BIRNBACH wrote:
Is there a way to prevent this to get the background image to load first?
thanks in advance
David Owen
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