Very Slow Image Downloads - Please Help

[Pictoric]

I have had some issues with extremely slow downloads of pages with limited amounts of images on them.

If I could ask anyone that is nice enough to check out the following link:

http://elite.fmtwo.com/templates/4/creed%20generic.htm

and this one

http://elite.fmtwo.com/templates/2/creed%20generic.htm

and let me know how fast this loads.

Does it pop like yahoo or is it slow as in 3-5 seconds slow. To give you an idea, it is 19kb worth of images and should pop. I am in Austin and it takes 3-5 seconds to load. I have tried this on 2 different T1 networks AND on different computers. I asked someone in Dallas to test it out and they indicated that it loaded pretty quick....(scream) The other wierd thing is that other pages hosted such as matrixresellers and vortechhosting.com load very fast for me and have the same traceroute times as the links above.

So, I am baffled as to what the deal here is. 3-5 seconds is a long time. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated either here in the forum or privately, sbosell@pictoric.com

Sam

[jmbeach]

yeah, about the same speed for me in San Diego.

Why not try cutting it up into only a few sections? It's not that many colors, so it should actually be better to be even a single image.

Once it's cached, though, it's very fast - I'd say less than half a second.

[admin]

The page starts to load really fast and it seems to take it about 2 - 4 sec to load every thing.

[Pictoric]

I really don't know what the deal is. If it is location related or what. I appreciat you looking at it though.

[generic]

its slow here too, but after looking at your code, theres is way too much complication in the code for that simple graphic, I believe your problem slowing the page down is with your over use of tables and over breaking up of that graphic. It is about 30 different files, in multiple tables and rows when it should probably be 3 graphics at best in 1 table with 3 rows.

Suggestion: to see if its your code or something else, try making a page with about 5 -10 simple graphics about 1000kb each and see how fast that loads.

i.e, put a few graphic without any tables on a new fresh page and try that.

just a suggestion.

[Brangwyn]

Took about 3 seconds to load here ... I'd agree with tracewebspace theres probably a lot more HTML on that page than there really needs to be.

[AbsoluteWeb]

It's slow on a dsl line for me... about 3 seconds.

I split it into 3 individual files and everyone's comments are correct:

http://www.absoluteweb.com/temp/

Loads pretty quick...

[Brangwyn]

Yes its quicker now.

[generic]

and if you make them .gif's or .jpegs, the file size should shrink in half vs. your .png format, which should also speed it up.

[admin]

Originally Posted by AbsoluteWeb

It's slow on a dsl line for me... about 3 seconds.

I split it into 3 individual files and everyone's comments are correct:

http://www.absoluteweb.com/temp/

Loads pretty quick...

That loaded before I could even open the page all the way..

[Pictoric]

I understand from an implementation standpoint I can slice this into 3 images and it would probably load quickly(there may be cases where I can not as this was just me testing some stuff I am working on), but that being said, the matrixreseller homepage has 36 graphics that total 177kb which is almost 10 times the size of my original graphics and twice as many files.

It loads extremely fast. Why the large difference in download times?

I appreciate everyone's time and input.

[admin]

Coding has a LOT to with pages loading and all the images there are .gif's and flash files..

[jmbeach]

also remember that some browsers (say older versions of Netscape) don't do well when you start embedding multiple tables. With very complex designs, try to keep under 5 layers of embedded tables and you'll be fine.

[Pictoric]

I posted the same page at: http://www.jwines.com/test/Creed%20Generic.htm

just curious about everyone's image download times in comparison.

[Pictoric]

I know my server was down for a bit. Now the page on elite.fmtwo.com downloads very fast!