Page hangs till flash doesn't load

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I've made this website http://www.ecojuteindia.com with 4 small flash movies in the home page.

The problem is that whenever I go to the website the page seems to hang till the time all the flash movies are not loaded and nothing is visible.

Is there any way I can get rid of this problem. Because some times with slow connection speeds it is very annoying that each visitor has to wait till the flash movie loads. Is there any way in which we can prioritise the loading of the different components of the page...having flash to load in the end.

Can anybody help??

[dotTee.com]

Hi,

Below are some suggestions :

1. Add in a preloader for each of the flash animation, so that visitor will see the loading status for each flash component.

2. In your webpage, place your graphic files before the flash files. This might solve some of your performance issue.

Hope this help.

Cheers.

Derick
http://dotTee.com
Apparel designed for S'ware Geeks.

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Originally Posted by dotTee.com

1. Add in a preloader for each of the flash animation, so that visitor will see the loading status for each flash component.

2. In your webpage, place your graphic files before the flash files. This might solve some of your performance issue.

1.The movie files are pretty small in size...but still i'll try the preloader technique.
2.How can I place the graphic files ahead of the flash...I didn't understand the logic coz the coding of the page is done through tables and since the layout is already defined everything would remain where they are.

And even the graphic files which are placed before the flash files say the menu buttons are not visible till the flash loads. You can check it out on the homepage of http://www.ecojuteindia.com.

[Weedy Lady]

I just visited your home page and it took forever, looking at a plain grey screen, to finally load.

Why are you using so many flash files? Try changing your page and using just one flash file.....if you must have any at all.

I'll bet three fourths of the people who click on a link to your site leave before it ever loads. I would have if you had not posted this thread to ask for help.

If you are on line to sell merchandise, make it as easy as possible for your visitors. Do not expect them to be patient. The most artistic and beautiful site in the world will do you no good if it isn't customer friendly. And your site is beautiful, for sure. It just drives people away.

[rumblepup]

This is a big problem with using flash. The page hangs while the browser is trying to figure out what comes in first.

Try making a loadMovie flash animation. A small, 1k flash movie that "calls" your main swf in. That way, as far as the browser is concerned, your flash, all 1k of it, IS loaded.

Hmmm. Here's the action script

loadMovieNum("movie.swf", 1);
stop();

Make the loadMovie document the same exact size and speed as your main movie.
Then create a keyframe in the first frame.
Drop this bit of actionscript in, and replace "movie.swf" with yours.

If your main movie in in a certain directory, the name it "/flash_directory/main.swf"

You can see how this changes things. I had the same problem with http://thecabinethardwarezone.com until I did this. Now the load time is dependant on the actual images of the site. 1k opposed to umpteenK is easier to handle.

[Webnauts]

Visually your site is very impressive (my taste).
But the loading time....

I found two reasons that your page is so slow:

1. You page has a weight of 158086 bytes, and users with modems tollerate up to max. 8 seconds download time, and that in bytes aprox. 35000.
So you have about 5 times bigger size than tolerated on the Web.

2. You have markup problems. Something like 24 errors and 12 other important issues. You also have serious accessibility problems.
You might would like to try this free tool: http://www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/ It can help a lot.

My suggestions: Try to reduce the weight of you flash files and cleanup your code, and try to make your site more accessible. And all this will improve drastically your SEO.

Good luck!

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Originally Posted by rumblepup

Try making a loadMovie flash animation. A small, 1k flash movie that "calls" your main swf in. That way, as far as the browser is concerned, your flash, all 1k of it, IS loaded.

Hmmm. Here's the action script

loadMovieNum("movie.swf", 1);
stop();

Make the loadMovie document the same exact size and speed as your main movie.
Then create a keyframe in the first frame.
Drop this bit of actionscript in, and replace "movie.swf" with yours.

Hi rumblepup,

I've changed the flash files as per your instructions but still no change in the browser behaviour. The page still hangs the same way and till the flash doesn't load the other components of the page don't load.

I wonder why this is happening because I've done exactly as suggested by you. Does this work at all??

[Weedy Lady]

Have you tried redesigning the page so it uses just one flash movie? I still think the problem is that you are using so many of them.