[Phpwm] PHP Website load times in Firefox

[Dave Holmes]

Mike,

My guess would be JavaScript especially in complex web applications, the
browser sequentially downloads the files to avoid problems with
dependencies where as all of the other content is downloaded via
multiple connections. If you look at the net tab in firebug you will see
this behaviour.

Minimise the number of files and apply JS compression this will result
in dramatic improvements.

Browser caching of the JS will mean this only occurs on first load of
your site.

Dave



Mike Tipping wrote:
> Several of the sites I've built and manage seem to take an age to initially
> load. These sites seem to be those that require a login so the delay is the
> initial login screen which should just be checking to see if there is a user
> in the session and displaying the login screen. Sometimes they load OK but
> often enough to be annoying they take an age.
>
> I was thinking this could be a delay on the server side but if while I'm
> waiting for the site to load, I open the same site is Safari on the same
> computer it often loads straight away.
>
> I haven't had any clients complain about slow load times but I have a
> colleague who uses Safari most of the time and does get slow load times.
>
> Does anyone know of any issues with Firefox and checking session variables
> or tools that would tell me what the browsers is doing while I'm staring as
> a blank screen.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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