is my page to big [170kb]?

ovisopa

Hello ppl.

I'm not sure if what I wan't will be made with php, but I just need some help, or sugestions.

I made a site for my city, and now when it's almoust finished I think is a little bit to big, my first page (index.php) with all the pic's and movies needed to load is about 170 kb.

Is a way to make some pic's and some text to load first, and other things like banners and the rest of pictures to load after?

You can see the page at this adress:
www.sibiul.ro/index.php

I wait for some sugestions.

10x

See ya

suntra

Well...

You could use an empty image (well, a 1x1 transparent image) and call it for banners and other images you don't want to load first. When the page is loaded you call a JavaScript function which will download the banners & cie... Of course, if the user doesn't allow JavaScript to work, you should let the banners load normally...

Got it ?

Elizabeth

First, I think your site is great! It did take a while to download, and I have broadband... you want to always gear towards people with the slower connections. They say that people will wait an average of 8 seconds before they get impatient and click on another page.

I might suggest you "chop" larger images into pieces - this will reduce the load time because the small pieces can be loading at the same time, rather than one large picture.

Also, the menu and the calendar are really nice touches, but do you think they are eating up a lot of space?

It's a difficult balance between "bells and whistles" (cool functions) and loading time. You may find that taking out one or 2 things makes all the difference in the world.

hth-

-Elizabeth

Mark

first off, its a good site, but its Very Very Crowded, i would never overwhelm my visitors with that much info on the front page.. i suggest cutting down and putting some of that stuff on other pages. 😉

i mean, theres so much text there i dont even think about reading it, i just glare at the screen. 😉

besides the fact its not in english, lmao but ya know :rolleyes:

ADL

Hi,
just like to say "Wow". I like it a lot. It took seven seconds to load. Which according to Elizabeth just about 'allowed'. OK, so it takes a while to load but in my opinion it is worth waiting for. There is an awful lot of information there so it is bound to get quite big.
I agree with Elizabeth with the idea of maybe taking out one or two functions but I love the menu. Maybe you could get rid of the calender?
Cheers,
ADL

Kerry_Kobashi

Nice site.... wish I could read Romanian

Are you caching on the server pages for this page? If not you have a wonderful opportunity to take some sections out of this home page and have it cached to speed up things dramatically.
Is there heavy database access going on? If this data doesn't change frequently, you can cache it to avoid having to hit the database to regenerate the page for each page hit.
Everything in the left and right columns can be cached. The weather and stock quotes wont be cacheable as they appear to change frequently.

There looks to be quite a lot of time taken generating the middle section of the page (the shout area). I am assuming this is coming from a database.

Look into using Smarty Templates as a means to do this.
smarty.php.net

In regards to page size, I find it best to have no more than 50K per page targeting 56K modem connections.

Kerry Kobashi
Kobashi Computing