Help to improve page loading time

wonder_lander · 6 Dec 2009 at 18:58

I am using a service called "Easy Content Units" - http://www.easycontentunits.com/ which allows me to pull products from various merchant network feeds.

The problem I am having is the time it can take for the service to return the information is causing visitors to leave the site. Here is an example of a unit loading http://www.fishkettle.co.uk/shop-for-a-fish-kettle

This page has 20 products on it (4 rows of 5 items) so isn't particularly large.

A fellow user proposed the following solution http://www.pauldixonwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2009/09/05/ecu-loading-idea/

Does this look like the only solution? Does anyone have an alternative service I should look into?

One of the main issues is the page just stops loading until the ECU has fully loaded

wonder_lander · 6 Dec 2009 at 22:25

Cheers guys will have a play with the other solution (http://www.pauldixonwebdesign.co.uk/...-loading-idea/ ) as 10 seconds is way too long!

wonder_lander · 7 Dec 2009 at 20:26

OK have had a go at implementing this. http://www.fishkettle.co.uk/test

Can anyone say:

a) Is that better?
b) I can't work out why the ECU and Finding products don't align like they do on the other guys explanation page
c) How do I remove that border that's around the ECU (I guess it's in the stylesheet somewhere!)

Thanks for the feedback

wonder_lander · 8 Dec 2009 at 09:29

Spunkey said:
The page took a good 20 seconds before I even saw any content, and another 10 on top of that before all the images loaded in.

I'm on a BT leased line 2Mb up/down.

Was that the original page or the new test one?

wonder_lander · 8 Dec 2009 at 10:26

Hmm seems OK for me but would like to hear others feedback