Often times as web developers, we build websites that are fairly media intensive. Lots of graphics, slideshows, large Javascript files, large CSS files, etc, etc. It’s not uncommon for page load times to suffer on some really visually appealing and well designed pages.
There has to be a better way to display these pages, rather than watch the awesome background image that we created load literally line by line.
This topic got me thinking. Certainly, the first area we should look at is optimizing our images, minifying our stylesheets and scripts, and doing anything we can to reduce the weight and bandwidth strain the end user feels. In some cases however, design and functionality outweight a slight delay in page load time. Clients like seeing really stunning and visually appealing pages, jQuery functions “wow” them – and that’s great – but page load times can suffer.
In cases where we do not want to sacrifice style and design for page load time, perhaps we should consider another alternative? What about displaying a page loading image while the page loads gracefully in the background, out of site? How can we accomplish this?
There has to be a better way to display these pages, rather than watch the awesome background image that we created load literally line by line.
This topic got me thinking. Certainly, the first area we should look at is optimizing our images, minifying our stylesheets and scripts, and doing anything we can to reduce the weight and bandwidth strain the end user feels. In some cases however, design and functionality outweight a slight delay in page load time. Clients like seeing really stunning and visually appealing pages, jQuery functions “wow” them – and that’s great – but page load times can suffer.
In cases where we do not want to sacrifice style and design for page load time, perhaps we should consider another alternative? What about displaying a page loading image while the page loads gracefully in the background, out of site? How can we accomplish this?
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