Making the first page of the site appear more quickly

[bruce barker]

its all controlled by the browser. IE only allows two concurrent downloads
at a time. you could use client script to download the images and set them
at runtime to control the image downloaing. you will want to specifiy the
accurate sizes for the empty img tags, so that the page does not have to be
re-rendered after the images load.

the text is actually downloaded first, and as its parsed, the other required
content (any src=) is queued up for downloading.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)




"Florian Marinoiu" <Florian_no.spam_marinoiu@buroplus.ca> wrote in message
news:3F2683A5.43A8246D@buroplus.ca...

> Hi,
>
> I was making some tests with a new site that we have implemented and I
> discovered that while I browse the site for the first time and I do not
> have the images in the browser's cache it takes a little bit of time (a
> couple of seconds or more) before i can see that some objects appear on
> the page. I was wondering if there is any way that I could intruct the
> IIS to deliver first the text of the page and then the images or even
> better if I could tell IIS to deliver smaller graphics first and then
> the larger ones. Is it any page directive for such think ore any
> modification I could do in the META data of teh IIS?
> Also, is it any way I could instruct the IIS to make more concurrent
> connections with the browser so that more images are delivered in the
> same time or it is a client(browser) config?
>
> I would appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
>

[Florian Marinoiu]

Hi Bruce,

is it then any way that I could tell the browser to start showing at least the
text as soon as it gets it and then to put images as they arrive?

Thanks,
Florian

bruce barker wrote:

> its all controlled by the browser. IE only allows two concurrent downloads
> at a time. you could use client script to download the images and set them
> at runtime to control the image downloaing. you will want to specifiy the
> accurate sizes for the empty img tags, so that the page does not have to be
> re-rendered after the images load.
>
> the text is actually downloaded first, and as its parsed, the other required
> content (any src=) is queued up for downloading.
>
> -- bruce (sqlwork.com)
>
> "Florian Marinoiu" <Florian_no.spam_marinoiu@buroplus.ca> wrote in message
> news:3F2683A5.43A8246D@buroplus.ca...

> > Hi,
> >
> > I was making some tests with a new site that we have implemented and I
> > discovered that while I browse the site for the first time and I do not
> > have the images in the browser's cache it takes a little bit of time (a
> > couple of seconds or more) before i can see that some objects appear on
> > the page. I was wondering if there is any way that I could intruct the
> > IIS to deliver first the text of the page and then the images or even
> > better if I could tell IIS to deliver smaller graphics first and then
> > the larger ones. Is it any page directive for such think ore any
> > modification I could do in the META data of teh IIS?
> > Also, is it any way I could instruct the IIS to make more concurrent
> > connections with the browser so that more images are delivered in the
> > same time or it is a client(browser) config?
> >
> > I would appreciate your help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Florian
> >