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Page rendering delayes

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8:28 am
January 28, 2010


verduijn

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Greetings!

The message below was posted in July last year, but never received a reply. Sadly I have the same issue, and I'd really like to know if anybody already found the cause and the remedy. You might want to look at the source code at http://www.yourshopshop.com. The remarkable thing is that the phenomenon happens in Firefox, but not in IE and Chrome.

I fear I'll never find out what's the matter… if in 6 months nobody came up with the answer, there likely is no answer…

Be well!

Jaap Verduijn.

Hi – I've seen some posts about CSS apparently not linking, so page shows up without formatting, but not sure if this is related – I'm using Flexibility on two blogs and notice with both of them that there's a noticeable delay before the CSS "kicks in", ie the page first appears unformatted and then after a few seconds, the correctly formatted page appears.

It's only two to three seconds, but I haven't had this issue with other themes and would obviously prefer it if my sites loaded immediately. I notice it also happens when I load the Reviewazon site that's using the Flexibility theme, so I assume it's something to do with the theme and/or possibly my connection speed.

Any advice on how to eliminate this would be appreciated – maybe reducing the number of background images or some other tweaking?

I can provide a link to my blogs if that will help.

Many thanks,

Scotch

4:04 am
February 4, 2010


verduijn

Member

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Someway, somehow, the phenomenon disappeared – but it certainly wasn't due to the overwhelming help and advice on the support forum. I don't know what caused it, I don't know why it disappeared, I don't know if it will come back, and most important: I don't know if it will also be an issue in FlexSqueeze, so I decided not to upgrade. Pity: I sure like the extended options in FlexSqueeze! But if it behaves like Flexibility2 does, it isn't worth buying.

Be well!

Jaap Verduijn.

6:54 am
February 5, 2010


Ryan

Admin

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It's possible the delay is due to the fact that Flexibility 2 uses a dynamic style sheet, so each time a page is loaded, the style sheet is rendered from the database. This could possibly delay rendering slightly. FlexSqueeze uses a static style sheet instead of a dynamic one to improve page load time. The dynamic style sheet is there, but it gets written to a static CSS file each time settings are saved.

Jaap – I appologize for the lack of support on the Flexibility 2 forums. FlexSqueeze forums are my priority since those are paying users. I try to keep up as much as possible, but I have to pay the bills somehow.

8:41 am
February 5, 2010


verduijn

Member

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Ryan said:

(…) Jaap – I appologize for the lack of support on the Flexibility 2 forums. FlexSqueeze forums are my priority since those are paying users. I try to keep up as much as possible, but I have to pay the bills somehow.


Hi Ryan!

I sure understand, having to fight the "Battle of the Bills" every month myself. However, due to the wonky support (leaving the original message unanswered for 6 months really is a bit much) I still have $129,99 in my pocket that otherwise would have been in yours by now.

Ain't life a p*sser?

Jaap.