Questions tagged [load-time]

Load Time is amount of time (usually in seconds) that takes a browser to fully download and render a web page.

Definition

Wikipedia defines it as follows:

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Tools

The following websites provide free and convenient tools for quick measuring web page load time along with full detailed graphs:

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Cocoa WebView: Load-time when computer idles

I wrote a simple Mac OS application. The view only contains a hidden WebView and a NSTextView. At a certain time 100 URLs will be parsed, one after another. A URL is loaded in the WebView, some DOM tree parsing happens, rinse and repeat. Everything…
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How to Load Data into Javascript Objects

I'm currently writing a web application that requires some data from the server to be stored in a Javascript object. The amount of data that needs to be loaded is very small, probably around 1 KB. I'm faced with the decision of how to load the…
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Is it possible to marshal interpreted ruby code data in a c-extension for faster load times?

Ruby 2.0.0 has made a big difference for us in load time. I was wondering if we could get even better load times by caching interpreted ruby code data via c-extension. The idea came to me while reading pickaxe section "Embedding a Ruby Interpreter".…
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Why does the same html page take 25 sec to load on one server and 2 sec to load on another?

I have the exact same html sitting on two different servers. Both pages call things like stylesheets and images from the same servers (not each from their local server). In other words, these pages are identical except they exist on two different…
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Possible causes of slow Silverlight start up

I have a Silverlight application that loads extremely slow from IIS. When I debug it takes about 5 seconds to load, where as from the server it takes over a minute. The size of the xap is only 8 MB, which does not seem particularly large to me, and…
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Will programmatically allocating an interface object affect loading time?

I'm making an app that allows you to quickly change your brightness, but that was rejected for not having enough features, so I'm merging it with my battery app. If I only load the brightness stuff and have a button that says "load rest of app",…
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General Methods to Increase Mobile Web Performance

I am in the process of speeding the perceived load time of a website specifically aimed at the mobile platforms (iPhone primarily, Android secondarily, who cares about the rest...) I have already tried several general techniques for speeding load…
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iOS linked frameworks affecting load time?

I've got an iOS app that links to 15 Apple frameworks (including the ~3 basic ones every app uses). I've noticed that my app's load time, and time restoring from the background, is pretty high, though the executable is only 600kb. Could all these…
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How can I reduce the loadtime when showing multiple like buttons (about 60 buttons)?

On one of my pages I'm showing about 60 items I would like to be "likeable" via facebook. The problem is that I can not use several pages to show the items since this would reduce the usability of the page. But when loading / showing 60 like buttons…
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ajax get xmlHttpRequest load time

Is there a way to get an xmlHttpRequest load time? Otherwise I'll have to set a function that count it, so?
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What is causing IE 8 to pause on Site load?

Hey guys, I am trying to see if any of you have experience the same thing I am with Internet Explorer 8. When I go to load a site I built, I can see the whole page is loaded but it pauses for like 8 seconds before you can scroll or move. Once it…
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why would https://secure-a.vimeocdn.com/js/froogaloop2.min.js delay my site load time?

It seems just recently my site's load-time is being delayed for about 30seconds due to Vimeo's https://secure-a.vimeocdn.com/js/froogaloop2.min.js. What i don't understand is that if i follow the link directly it loads up instantly so i am not sure…
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Julia from bash script

Can I create one instance of Julia and use it to run multiple Julia scripts from bash script? #!/bin/bash J=getjuliainstance() J.run(temp.jl) J.run(j1.jl) J.run(j2.jl) J.run(j3.jl) J.exit() I could run all of them from inside a master Julia script…
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How to increase the loading speed 3D model with Three.js?

I have doing some research on three.js to display 3D model on webpage and I succeeded. However, the load time (preprocessing time) is pretty slow as you can see from here the load time is 11+ seconds and my file size is 69.5MB; during that moment I…
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what is heavier on load time: css or php requests?

I'm using a cms (Wordpress) and have a gaggle of external stylesheets I'm loading on each page, though some of these stylesheets are page specific. Overall I'm getting bad scores from Yslow and Page Speed so I'm considering adding some php…
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