Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 09/09/05 23:17

josvanr@xs4all.nl wrote:
> HI

Hi. Please set your line length to something less than 80 characters.
Thanks.

> When I point my browser to my site http://www.josvanriswick.nl I
> see a black page, before the page is actually shown. On slow
> connections, this is really annoying. I tried everything I know to
> speed this up: use small-size and low-quality images (high jpeg
> compression), not use too much images, specify all image sizes
> (height and width) in pixels in the <img> tag. Despite these
> actions, there still is a black time-out before the page is shown.
> What is the browser doing during this time? The effect seems to be
> the worst on

Some things for you to consider.

1. 51 images on the main page. Waaay too many.
2. Many errors on the page:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.josvanriswick.nl/
3. Needs more optimization. Enter your URL here:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
4. Add a proper DOCTYPE, preferably HTML 4.01 Strict.
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

> internet explorer. Firefox and mozilla work better... What can I do
> to prevent this? At least I'd like to show some text, so users know
> that something is being loaded...

It might be that seemingly unnecessary JavaScript. Remove that and see
what happens.

Why is your page so long? There are meters of blank space below the
last of the content?

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts

Win2K, Firefox 1.0.4

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