I have a program that works fine on my development machine and on QA but it does not work properly on Stage.
The issue seems to be that Stage is a much slower box and it takes a long time for the web page to come up. When it does come up most of the various sections of the page look fine, but there is one section of code that comes up "raw"...but this I mean that the stylesheet has not been applied to it.
Is there a way to "force" this stylesheet to be applied to the page first?
Thanks
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Here's how it looks via customize.php
Link
I was not doing any major changes. Cleared cache and changed stuff in customize.php but thats it.
I've been working for 2 straight days to get a decent gtmetrix score and overall design. Help would be greatly appreciated.
Just a quick note: GTmetrix score/ Pingdom or google page speed test
are just recommended approach and the speed they show does not
necessarily mean real world differences. Those scores do not cover the
complexity of code of the server side (which also delays the page load
time). So there are scenarios where you have to ignore few of the
recommendations to make sure everything works fine.
Although in your case i can see that there are no css on you page applied externally nor internally. Kindly tweak the css rendering settings to see if it works. The theme is working fine on customize.php because the changes do not affect the back end of the website it's only the front end which gets affected. So CSS are rendering on back end but not of the frontend. It maybe of theme issue if css are not enqueued properly. there can be serveral reasons. Switch to one of the default themes and see if the plugin is working properly. This will help you find out where exactly the problem exists.
Currently, I'm investigating several tips/recommendations for improving the performance of web sites. So, I've started with Steve Souders' excellent books (High performance web sites and even faster web sites), but I've got a couple of questions regarding some of the rules that are presented. FOr instance, chapter 5 of High performance web sites say that CSS stylesheets should be put at the top of the page because putting them at the bottom stops the progressive rendering that is performed by the browsers. According to Steve, some browsers (most notably IE) do get stuck with it and show a blank page instead of showing the items progressively. Here's the url for that test page:
http://stevesouders.com/hpws/css-bottom.php
Now, I do understand that we're talking about a book with a couple of years and that browsers (including IE) have been updated and improved. The reason I'm asking this is because I can't reproduce the behavior he mentions with any current version of FF, Chrome or IE.
Well, the thing is that Yahoo (http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#css_top) and google (https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rendering#PutCSSInHead) still say that.
So, what I'd like to know is if browsers have evolved in this area and this is only problematic for, say IE 8? If that is the case, why haven't yahoo and google updated their recommendations? (btw, I've tried simulating IE7 from within IE11 and still don't see the expected result that is described in the book...)
*UDPATE*One more final note: I've decided to reproduce Steve's cgi script in asp.net and I've created a simple generic handler that does the same thing as the sleep.cgi script. what I'm seeing here is that putting a stylesheet reference (which takes some time to load - I've went with 10 seconds) inside the head ends up producing the blank page problem that is reported in the book. If you put at the end, the browser ends up rendering everything and making a second pass for applying the styles after they have been loaded. In my opinion, this makes sense because when you put the style in the header element, the browser is holding up until it gets the styles before rendering (notice that the other referenced components are still being downloaded on the background, but they're not being shown in the screen). On the other hand, when they're at the bottom, the browser will simply apply the current styles until it gets stuck in the stylesheet. WHen that happens, it will only show the html it has loaded until the stylesheet (if there are any images below it, the browser will still download them but it will only render them after the styles have been loaded).
So, after these tests, I'm starting to think that 1.) I'm missing something here or 2.) yahoo and google recommendations are no longer valid today.
Thoughts?
Thanks guys!
Simply inserting a <link> tag in the footer is not the way to defer stylesheets. The currently accepted method is to attach it using javascript:
<script>
function loadStyleSheet(e){if(document.createStyleSheet)try{document.createStyleSheet(e)}catch(t){}else{var l;l=document.createElement("link"),l.rel="stylesheet",l.type="text/css",l.media="all",l.href=e,document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(l)}}loadStyleSheet("/your/stylesheet.css");
</script>
Optimizing your page for speed involves determining what CSS is above the fold, inlining that part in the header, and loading the main stylesheet later using the above method.
I recommend doing some searches for "above the fold css" and check out Google Pagespeed Insights.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Please see this link. Notice that the search bar first renders near the top of screen. Then aligns itself to be opposite to the logo. I think some css rules are causing this but I am unable to figure out. Can you please help me in pinpointing the reason. What one should avoid in the code to avoid/minimize this behaviour.
This almost aways happens when you have a css rule for blocking that is overwriting the previous. The best thing to do is to have the first thing in the css file to be blocking and normalizing. Every time you need something to be in a place or have a specific size, you should go to the blocking section of your code.
But the most preocupying part of the site you shown is the time it takes to load a fancybox css file.
This issue could just be how each browser loads and renders the content, and also on how fast your network can download content. Since there is many multiple Javascript and CSS files it can just be parsing them slowly and configuring the site as it goes while your network and browser is still downloading and loading everything.
I viewed it in Chrome and Firefox and it seemed to load fine for me.
Have a look at the following site http://www.soe.gr.
The whole page has been built with CSS Page Builder Magic 2 (projectseven.com).
Every button is a link to a different .html page.
However, I do not know why every button press creates a flash effect in the page, the background changes instantly color and generally it gives an impression of abnormal operation. I have not met any site with such behavior except some pages inside projectseven site.
Do you have any idea why that happens? Is it something wrong with Page Builder Magic approach?
I am new to Web Development world and I want to know if there is any problem with these guys.
Thank you very much
I checked it out, it doesn't behave abnormally at all for all those effects you have there, I checked out the size of one of the images it is about 250kb, then imagine the other images which I assume are of the same size, and they are all going to be loaded when the page loads, you definitely should expect some effect
I am working on this website. I used firebug along with DreamWeaver to create it. The website does not load fine when the page is opened(the layout is not as I wanted and I created it.) but when I refresh the page, it becomes exactly as I wanted it to be. Now I am stuck with it. I have never been into such a situation before. Please help me out how can I make the website load properly at the first instant. Thanks
It could be that the connection was slow the first time you loaded it. So the layout took longer. Next time you loaded it, everything was in the cache and the layout was quick!
So your low bandwidth (HTML) version of the site loads a 7.46 MB animated gif? Wow... I would get rid of that animated gif! Makes your site look choppy and unprofessional! That is surely a big part of your problem.
It looks exactly the same to me both before and after refresh. Hard-reset your cache, make sure you're not on a destructive proxy, and try using your browser in private mode.