Chris Kief wrote: >>Overall, bandwidth use is not excessive (at least for my standards), but >>the speed is not good either. Part of that appears to be due to the high >>number of requests, part of that is that some requests take long on the >>server, and part of that is probably that a Duron 800 is apparently not >>fast enough anymore. > > Not sure if you checked out the individual files but the homepage is broken > up into multiple swf and xml documents (I show 22 swf and 9 xml). To be > complete, there are also 1 html, 2 css, 3 js, and 11 gifs for a total of 48 > files and 251KB.
That is close enough with my 52 requests. The main difference is that I count 30 swf and only 2 gif. One thing I noticed is that about 90 KB of the initial load is XML/CSS/JS/HTML. I bet that if HTTP compression were enabled for the larger files the bandwidth use for the initial load would drop below quite a bit. > I was speculating with a colleague that the poor performance that some > people were seeing had to do with the number of files being downloaded as > well as the fact that the Flash player needs to load and parse the 9 xml > files (although the player's xml handling is greatly improved in the latest > versions). Speed of the client machine probably has a direct impact on the > player's ability to do this efficiently and quickly. CPU load does not hit 100%, so if that is the case the Flashplayer needs more optimization. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
