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Luuk
Luuk

Reputation: 1999

Why is this website sooo slow in IE8

I just finished a website: http://www.basenharald.nl and all is good in IE9, chrome and firefox. It does not support browsers < IE8, but that is planned.

However the website is really really slow in IE8 and for some reason some people encounter that the scrolling divs do not work (not all IE8 users).

Any help on these issues would be greatly appreciated since i cannot locate the problems.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1799

Answers (4)

Mangusto
Mangusto

Reputation: 1505

In Opera 11.52 it doesn't load at all..

Upvotes: 1

Rdpi
Rdpi

Reputation: 581

Not modern browsers and, as douwe said, even slow PCs will be affected. The parallax animation requires lots of CPU time and the effect is mainly related to the aesthetics of the website.

A good compromise between usability and aesthetics could be achieved by reducing the parallax effect.

I suggest you to remove the effect from the text ( class: contentwrapper). It will save you some CPU time and it will give you a more readable text. You could even switch to a normal scroll bar. For my experience, customized scrollbars, always give some trouble with the users ;)

If you are happy with the experience on the modern browsers, you could simply discriminate older browsers. With jquery you can use this

good luck

Upvotes: 1

Kosmosniks
Kosmosniks

Reputation: 186

First of all well done on a good looking site. I have used Developer Toolbar in Chrome to detect the following problem. Your site uses or reference a page called daddy-shoutbox.php. This code in this page or calling code to this page is causing a infinite loop or continues call. From my results I could see that that page takes on aggregate about 500ms to load. From the browser perspective I can only assume that IE8 actually shows the symptoms of this loop. My stats showed that the page has made over 130 requests and counting after 2mins.

Upvotes: 1

douwe
douwe

Reputation: 1315

Because IE8 just renders these animations VERY poorly. Also slow PC's will have issues with the animations.

You should detect IE8 (and lower) and disable those effects, because they are not functionally necessary

Upvotes: 3

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