Banner rotater & conveyor belt make for slow loading first page...

[Anthony Mark Holloway]

My website took forever to load because of the "banner rotator" and "Conveyor Belt" feature in bluevoda. Is there a way to get these devices to work better and load faster?

[DarrenC]

Re: Banner rotater & conveyor belt make for slow loading first page...

Without seeing them in action, I'll suggest sizing your images to reduce the kb's perhaps??

Post your url so we can give you an informed answer.

[Anthony Mark Holloway]

Re: Banner rotater & conveyor belt make for slow loading first page...

is this done with outside software?

[DarrenC]

Re: Banner rotater & conveyor belt make for slow loading first page...

is this done with outside software?

Yes

[Anthony Mark Holloway]

Re: Banner rotater & conveyor belt make for slow loading first page...

can you recommend a good app to handle this?

[Anthony Mark Holloway]

Re: Banner rotater & conveyor belt make for slow loading first page...

moultrietoday.com but I haven't taken the banners down yet, we determined that it was causing the slow index page load. The page loads, but takes about 8-9 minutes. All other linked pages load great, even with the same banners & rotator on them.

[DarrenC]

Re: Banner rotater & conveyor belt make for slow loading first page...

Yes Ideally you want to size these exactly to the correct size h x w in pixels and you've probably got some kind of photo editor already on your PC. I tend to use Snagit (google it) which is free for 30 days, others use Photoshop and there are plenty of others.

Edit: I just looked at your page and it had some of script problem causing my browser to jam. Have you used any third party stuff on this page?

[Anthony Mark Holloway]

Re: Banner rotater & conveyor belt make for slow loading first page...

none. everything is bluvoda

[DarrenC]

Re: Banner rotater & conveyor belt make for slow loading first page...

Ok because you say other pages are fine, I'm gonna suggest starting a new page and call it index2 and move across elements from the index page one at a time and publish and test as you go.

Once you are satisfied things are OK, delete the index page and rename index2 as index and publish.

Let me know how you get on.

PS I would still resize those images though.

[ahimsa]

Re: Banner rotater & conveyor belt make for slow loading first page...

.....for your image sizing try this.....it's free!!