Reducing Load Times / Design Architecture

I'm designing a flash site with a Dynamic Gallery (loading images from a XML file). what can I do to reduce load time at the beginning, or limit loading times to individual images?
I've seen designs which loads another SWF file on top of the current one. Is this feasible?
Any details would be greatly appreciated.

If loading the images is the goal of the file, then the quickest way to do that is to concentrate on the images. Any way you load them, they have to be loaded. Be sure they are optimized for the web. If the gallery intent would allow for it, have the images loaded on request, using thumbnails or other button-like interfaces. Or maybe load different sections at a time. Or load so many at first, then load the rest in the background so that there's something to look at while the rest load.
I don't know what purpose you have in mind for loading another swf into the file, so I can't offer any ideas there.

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How to cache swf files to reduce load time?

Hi,
We are using the XML data connection for our swf files. Some of our swf files are large and may take a minute to load. Is it possible to cache the swf files so they load in a shorter amount of time? If so, how would I go about doing this? Thanks!

Jim,
There is no option as such in Xcelsius.
We used SAP BI Query as a source for our dashboard and we had similar issue, we then cached the SAP BI Query to reduce the load time....it worked really very well!!
Try doing something similar in the source system...
-Anil

Reducing a SWF file size / creating "instance names" for website loading time improvement

Im hoping someone clever can help...
What i have done so far:
1) Created a flipbook using indesign CS5.5 that contains approx 25
images (embedded PNG's), these need to be good quality as this is a
portfolio - I'd also like to keep the 'page curl' effect. This makes the SWF generated cira 25MB.
2) created a Flash website "wrapper" to hold the above flipbook and add
features such as "bookmarks", links to other sites and forward/backward
page navigation buttions.
The issue we have is that because the flipbook SWF is 25MB the site
load time is slow.
What can be done to speed this up without compromising the image
quality?
1) Is there a way to make the indesign SWF smaller?
2) is there a way in indesign to properly give each page an
"instance name" so that they can be controlled from flash and therefore
I can load each pages image as and when needed.
any other ideas?
(If you'd like to visit the website to view the loading issue http://www.lizblackdesigns.co.uk)
Thanks
Liz

these need to be good quality as this is a portfolio
The approach to your portfolio website seems very outdated and will not help you in the near future. Flash is being used less and less with the increase in Mobile Devices being used to access the internet - a large chunk of which include Apple's iDevices which don't support Flash. This alone is a reason not to do it, however there are a few other big issues with the method you have chosen.
There is no "content" on your website for any search engine to find. No text. No meta data. No image alt tags. No titles. Nothing. In other words, your website will not be found by the people you are trying to attract. I would imagine for a portfolio site, you may want to re-think this approach.
The way the Flash file was created is the worst possible way to add Flash to the web as you have only embedded image files - and this is your entire site?! You could have included some text, which would have been viewable by search engines, and used color shapes to increase quality but lower filesize.
The filesize meant it took me over 1 minute to get off your home page. The average internet user will leave your site if you do not keep them interested after 5 seconds. In other words, you should have content of interest viewable within 5 seconds of load time.
If you are set on keeping the Flash setup for your website, re-build using as much text, color shapes and lines as you can (vector work in other words) and do not rasterize/export as image. This will drastically reduce load time and increase quality. You will also want to divide your file into sections and create more than 1 HTML page so that the browser only loads a bit at a time. You might also want to set a maximum size container for the Flash file as on my browser, it looks extremely pixelated and is very large, but unclear.
I would suggest looking into HTML5 if you are keen to create a website that can be viewed by around 98% of the web surfing people and it will also mean you can use an image slider (or similar) to show good quality images of your work. This will aid your site in being found by search engines but will also allow you to update sections of the site without re-publishing the entire Flash file.
Rik

What r the ways to reduce the load time of master data

Hi
The full load of the master data load IP is taking 18hr to 2 days loading on average 2516360 Records
Is their any option to reduce load time as its causing data base lock and impacting transports(other than data selection)
Thanks in advance
Anuj

You will have to do some research. What MD extractor are you talking about?
Test on R/3 system: First try to extract a considerable amount of records via transaction RSA3 in R/3 (10.000 or 100.000). Keep the time that it takes.
Extract the same into BW but only into PSA. Again measure the time.
Load data from PSA into datatarget and see how long this takes. You should now have a picture on where the performance problems are located.
Is the performance also bad for small loads or is there a boundary before which performance is ok. (in other words, is loading 200.000 records ten times longer then loading 20.000 records?)
Suspect the following in R/3:
- datasource enhancements in R/3. A redesign may improve your extraction in a big way.
- missing indexes. If you are extracting data from tables without proper indexes the extraction performance can be dramatic.
Suspect the following if loading to PSA is bad:
- Datapackage reads data in small chunks (much smaller than 50000 records). Overhead causes more time than the actual data transport.
- Network problems. Maybe the network is congested by other servers?
If loading from PSA to datatarget is slow:
- Check start routines for performance.
- Are enough batch partitions available? Sometimes activation of ODS can be improved by more parallel processes.
- Are you using a lot masterdata-lookups when filling the datatargets?
When you report you findings in this forum we may be able to help you further.

Data Load Times, etc.

Hello Forums:
I saw this website:
http://www.s-w-h.com/index.php?language=en
And found that a website like this loaded very quickly, and
seemed to fit almost all resolution.
I was wondering how did they make it fit dynamically? And how
did they manage to reduce load times so significantly?
I kinda wondered if it's possible to develop a massive forum
or online community thing using purely Flash. Would that be
possible? What if there were lots of user interaction, can the load
times be significantly cut down?

Does it load all the data while connected with 5GHz frequency… What is the IP address that you are getting from the Router? You can check the IP address in the following manner:
If you wish to find out your own IP address, you should run the same ms-dos prompt by clicking Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt. A black pop up box should come up, type: "ipconfig /all" … There check the IP address and Default Gateway under LAN….
# Open up the browser and on the address bar type “IP address of Default Gateway” that will open up the Router setup page…
# In that page itself make the MTU size to 1400 from Auto….
# Make the following Channel Settings of 2.4 GHz you can make Channel Width to 20 MHz only and Channel to 6, 9, 11.. Click Save Settings...
Then check the connectivity…

What can be done to reduce page loading time?

Hi,
I've built a site to showcase my photographs and pages load slowly. It has about 70 pages and each page uses the same custom template that contains graphics and type. Hyperlinks navigate from page to page or from section to section. Each page has a unique photograph. The site can be seen at...
http://web.mac.com/peter_tangen/iWeb/pt/enter.html
I'd like to reduce the time it takes to load a page.
In other web design applications it's possible to have all pages access a single graphic file, this speeds up page loading as the cache "remembers" the contents of the file and eliminates the need to reload it. Other posts in this forum indicate that this capability is not currently available in iWeb, however hoped for in Ver 2.0.
I'd appreciate any suggestions!
FYI: A typical page contains the following files (from the page)...
http://web.mac.com/peter_tangen/iWeb/pt/portrait01.html
backgroundimage_1.png
photo-filtered.jpg
portrait01.css
portrait01.js
shapeimage_1.png
shapeimage_2.png
shapeimage_3.png
shapeimage_4.png
shapeimage_5.png
shapeimage_6.png
shapeimage_7.png
shapeimage_8.png
shapeimage_9.png
shapeimage_10.png
shapeimage_11.png
transparent.gif
Thanks for your time!
g4 laptop Mac OS X (10.4.4)

pvt:
If you load the page you linked to and then open Safari's Activity window you'll see that those png files are all about from 0.1 to 2.6 kb in size. thats not very large at all. The largest file there is 66kb, the jpg background, and again not big. The Elijah jpg is 53 kb.
Those small png files are your links below the photo and probably the borders around it.
Here are some tips I've learned from these sites:
1 - do not use and frames or borders, etc. around photos.
2 - don't use any reflections.
3 - create your own navigation bar with linked text* and turn of the iWeb Navigation bar. The nav bar is all png based.
4 - use only the web safe fonts from the Font pane.
5 - do not use drop shadow on fonts.
6 - turn off smart quotes.
The above will reduce the number and size of files associated with a web page quite a bit. Photos with fancy frames and reflections can generate a thumbnail png of around 110KB whereas the plain version will be a jpg of only 28KB. Although it doesn't sound like a lot, it will speed up loading of the page and be more darkside (i.e. PC) friendly.
Run a test with a test site and publish to a folder. Then follow the hints above and publish to another folder and compare folders.
*Put your linked text directly under the Navigation bar. Then turn off the nav bar in the Inspector window. The nav bar will disappear and the linked text will move up to the top of the page. (This wouldn't apply to your site)
None of the pages I visited had any large png or unusually large files. One on the portrait 2 page was 448 kb and was the largest jpg I found.
On your portrait 6 page the drop shadows on the photos produced png files of 2.1 and 0.9 kb. The background is 66 kb.
As I said all the small png files are the borders and text links. I don't know if knocking out those drop shadows and eliminating those two files would make that big a difference for that page. One of the gurus here mentioned only adding a color background for the page and not the browser. I don't know how that would look or affect your site.
I like it by the way. Nice customization.
Tutorials

How can i reduce applet loading time?

I have recently begun converting a gui application to an applet. The problem i have is the loading time of the applet which can be several minutes.
The gui has a progress bar which tracks the loading of the classes, images and sounds etc, once this is up and running the loading time is fairly short, however it takes forever for the gui to actually begin to display.
The code for the classes is only about 150K altogether, there seems to a period of long modem inactivity once the applet is initialized before the gui is displayed.
How can i reduce the time it takes for the applet to initialize before the gui is displayed, otherwise users will thing nothing is happening and not bother loading it.
the applet is currently at http://www.winnieinternet.com/games/startrade2095/applet/startrade2095.htm
if you need a demo of the problem, although the applet is still work in progress.
Many thanks in advance for any help
W.Coleman
www.winnieinternet.com

Some suggestions could be:
1. Bundle all classes and resource files in a jar file.
2. Try to preload the heavier files (e.g. sound files) in a background thread, instead of init() method. See an example for this in Sun's Java tutorial, under the trail 'Sound'.

Reduce Flex application initial loading time

Comparing to HTML, Flex's initial load time is very long. How
to reduce the initial loading time to the level that is
comparable to HTML's loading time for the page content? Any
best practice or rules to follow?

Ok, OK! What's the specs?
How long is the load time? Please don't say "very long".
Let's see the spec. Oh, and can you give me a load time for the
mythologocal HTML page in question, just so I can compare?
I gotta tell ya, I sometimes take a nap when I'm loading half
the ASP pages I stumble across nowadays.
Here's a page from the Los Angeles times--html--- coming in @
6-7 seconds.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/02/los-angeles-pay.html
Another example: from CNN.com, coming in at about 10-11
seconds. Unbelievable.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2009/02/03/wynter.simpson.scientology.cnn
I've got a 350Kb Flex app using RSLs which loads in about 5
seconds. I'm kicking @ss compared to a lot of professional web
sites out there. Think that's too slow? Compared to what???

How to reduce project load time?

I am currently working on a large project (25+ Mb, thousands of vis) with something on the order of 100 classes. Opening the project is painfully slow. It usually takes 7-8 minutes. I'd like to figure out a way to reduce the load time.
What is LV's behavior regarding loading project file vis and libraries (lvlib, lvclass, etc.)?
Are all items in the project automatically loaded when the project is opened?
Are items not in the project but used as sub-vis automatically loaded?
Are dynamically linked items not included in the project automatically opened? (I imagine not.)
Are dynamically linked items that are included in the project automatically opened?
Thanks,
Dave

Hello,
I have talked to multiple people about your issue and we honestly believe that you you are experiencing is expected behavior based on the size of the project and number of VIs used. Creating a new project will sometimes help when a project file has a corruption within it. Since you are experiencing the same behavior on multiple computers, any difference in load time will be a function of the speed, RAM, etc. of that particular computer as compared to your machine. In saying that the files are technically loaded, I am saying that their locations are known so that when they are called, they can be loaded into memory as needed. It does not have to load any portion of the VI other than the location on disk. I would not expect either of those methods to reduce your project load time. Switching to dynamic linking only changes the order in which LabVIEW searches for the files. As I stated before, files added to the project are defined by the name and location on the disk. You can think of the project file as an XML file with different pieces of information about the files. If the file cannot be found, it will try to dynamically link the files by searching for them on the disk. When this happens, it goes through a seris of locations where the files might be located. When the project is loaded, it looks for the files that are listed in the project file first. I hope this helps.
-Zach
Certified LabVIEW Developer

Web Server NetworkTopology - Reduce Web Page Loading Times

Hello,
Not sure which forum is best to approach because I think my setup and requirements may fall into several areas of consideration, but here goes. With reference to the diagram below:
Basically I host my own website using IIS on a W7 box that sits behind my Windows Server 2012R2 box that I use as a DNS server with the following roles:
Routing and Remote Access, DNS Server, AD, NAT
What I'm wanting to do is to change my network configuration to the bottom diagram i.e put my webserver in front of the the windows server so that it is internet facing without having to route HTTP requests through my server machine, the objective is to
limit the hardware that HTTP requests need to travel through in order to speed up the web page loading times. I have tried the new preferred configuration but I am actually finding that the web page takes another 10 seconds longer to load with the new configuration.
My DNS server is authoritative for my website domain name, my idea or understanding for the new configuration is the following: (this may be wrong, not sure!)
Someone browses my site i.e makes an initial DNS request for my website, the DNS inquiry is passed through my hardware firewall to my DNS server, the DNS server then points the DNS request to the webserver box, then when an HTTP request for website is received
by my hardware firewall, the firewall redirects the HTTP request directly to the webserver.
I thought that the above new configuration would actually speed up the web page loading response time as the HTTP traffic would no longer have to travel through my DNS server before reaching the webserver and then make its way back to the remote host across
the WAN
Can someone please tell me where I am going wrong with my configuration? thanks in advance

Hi,
Is your website loaded very slow?
If yes, please try to perform a network capture on the client. We can find which part is slow by analysing the capture data.
If the DNS process is slow, please try to use nslookup to verify if it is a DNS issue.
If the HTTP process is slow, please check if there is any tcp retransmission in the capture data.
Best Regards.
Steven Lee
TechNet Community Support

Slow load times

Hi there -
Is there a good way to improve load times for my pages that have Edge animation? I have a very simple slide show set up, and even with the Preloader script, it's taking many seconds to load the page. Any thoughts?
Thanks!

Hi Amy,
Did you try the suggestions in this article?
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animation - Improving Performance in Edge Animate - Graphic Design Stack Exchange
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Iceland site - load times ok?

Here is a site from our trip to Iceland. Are the image and movie load times ok?
http://web.mac.com/volination/iWeb/
Of course, any design suggestions welcome. Thanks.
PB G4 1.67 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Thanks.
TomBud, I know the corners look bad on a few shots. Believe me, I was kicking myself when I looked at the video for not being more careful. I tried putting in a matte in the corners, like little triangle pieces, but I think it detracted from the video more than the blemishes.

Improving load times in Linux LabVIEW executable

I'm looking for (simple) ways to improve the loading times in a Linux LabVIEW executable. We're using a low performance, low cost CPU board, and loading times are terrible. The CPU is capable of doing everything after the application is loaded, but takes forever to get there.
One of the problems is the size of the executable, that grows everytime you just look at it. Are there ways to create smaller executables? It runs from a Compact Flash card, which is ofcourse much slower than hard disk.
Another problem is a dynamic vi, that is started for every TCP connection that connects to the application. It takes a long time to load, and connecting too fast can even effectively hang up the system. Starting a handler task takes about half a second, up to a few seconds for the first task.
We're using the LabVIEW 7.1 runtime, system is a 300 MHz cyrix SBC, running from a Compact Flash.

Dennisvr wrote:
I'm looking for
(simple) ways to improve the loading times in a Linux LabVIEW
executable. We're using a low performance, low cost CPU board, and
loading times are terrible. The CPU is capable of doing everything
after the application is loaded, but takes forever to get there. One
of the problems is the size of the executable, that grows everytime you
just look at it. Are there ways to create smaller executables? It runs
from a Compact Flash card, which is ofcourse much slower than hard disk. Another
problem is a dynamic vi, that is started for every TCP connection that
connects to the application. It takes a long time to load, and
connecting too fast can even effectively hang up the system. Starting a
handler task takes about half a second, up to a few seconds for the
first task. We're using the LabVIEW 7.1 runtime, system is a 300 MHz cyrix SBC, running from a Compact Flash.
I'm
not sure about the first part of your question. LabVIEW is highly
binary and does a lot of memory allocations before even one VI is ready
to be started. So maybe the memory manager is a problem. Another issue
is that the Macintosh like resource file format that is used by LabVIEW to store its VIs etc. results in
lots and lots of individual disk accesses with a rther random like
character inside a single file. So if you can configure the read
caching of your disk to use more memory this may significantly increase
the speed of loading LabVIEW VIs or applications.
And finally spawning VIs through VI server is a rather costly operation
especially on low resoruce systems. A VI is more like an executable in
many ways as far as resource consumption is concerned rather than a
thread. A much better way would be to avoid spawning subVIs altogether
and implement a queued TCP/IP server similar to the Date Time Server
example. It is a little extra work to work with this shift register
architecture but it will not have the issues of long load times for
every new TCP/IP connection coming in.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Message Edited by rolfk on 03-07-2006 06:33 PM
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

Long load times

I am trying to edit a page and I only have a css page which is local linked to the page. It only affects me when trying to work in split or design view. I hav tried disabling the linked files thing and I have tried this http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/887/cpsid_88742.html also, but I am still getting this long time. It seems to only affect the load time when I have the following in my head tag;
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css"/>
It also slows the performance drastically, If I type the letter "D" then deleete that letter it will freeze up for a for a short period of time. I can not have this when trying to create websites for clients. Any help would be appreciated.
Dreamweaver CS5
Windows 7 - 32bit
3gb RAM
Intel Pentium Dual

http://pokeplanet.co.uk/html.txt thats the html file
http://pokeplanet.co.uk/css.txt thats the css file
also commenting out the css link in the head seems to fix it =/

Comparing load times w/ and w/o BIA

We are looking at the pros/cons of BIA for implementation. Does anyone have data to show a comparison between loads, loads with compression, vs BIA Index time?

Haven't seen numbers comparing load times. Loads to your cubes and compression continue whether you have BIA or not. Rollup time would be eliminated as you would no longer have the need to have aggregates. No aggregates should also reduce Change Run time, perhaps a lot, or only a little, depending on whether you have large aggregates with Nav Attrs in them. All of that is offset to some degree by the time to update the BIA.
Make sure you understand all the licensing costs, not just SAP's, but the hardware vendors per blade licensing costs. Talked to someone just the other day that was not expecting a per blade licensing, list price of the license per blade was $75,000

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