Yes, the slideshow. It makes the homepage heavier than it has to be. Yet it's one of the most loved features of our site, has been for years. The images are downsized to a reasonable level, but you still have to load them any time a new image is added or your cache is cleared. For site speed, I'd love to have just one image there, the most recent campout photo, but the slideshow is by far one of most popular features on the site, so I'm kinda stuck there.
I think if I removed that, I'd get more heat than if I leave it. One compromise is to simply have the most recent photo there on the homepage with the featured products, and when you click on that image, you redirect to the whole slideshow, or even better linked out to an archive of ALL the previous homepage photos we've used in the past. That way the site would load faster for everyone, and those that want to watch pictures and simply click out to another page and can wait for that to load. Downside is you would get the same image each visit (till we change it for a new one) instead of the random choice from the bunch. Interested what y'all have to say about this? I lean towards faster faster faster, but it might be a hard sell since most folks seem to like it. -Dave@riv On Jan 26, 6:48 am, tdusky <tdu...@comcast.net> wrote: > The new site is complex and loads slowly, it always has, I am on a > fast mac with high speed internet. > It sometimes hangs and I need to refresh to get it to load. > That's the price of a cool looking site? > Shouldn't be > > Tom Duksy > Huntington Woods MI > > On Jan 26, 2:24 am, Joe Bernard <joerem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > The home page isn't loading well on both computers (and a smartphone) I've > > used today. I can still click on the categories, but there's no home page > > pic or featured products. Is anyone else experiencing this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
