[Seaside] slow picture loading

Tudor Girba tudor at tudorgirba.com
Tue Nov 27 21:06:35 UTC 2012


Hi Paul.

I am not so sure about it being a Javascript issue, given that lowering the KeepAliveTimeout improves the situation.

Nevertheless, I will look into enhancing the order because that is obviously a problem, too. Thanks.

Cheers,
Doru


On 27 Nov 2012, at 21:15, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com> wrote:

> It looks like the images aren't loaded until after the Javascript is
> loaded and compilied.  Can you move the javascript to the end of the
> document rather than having it in the HEAD?  I don't use pier so don't
> know if that's easy or not.  Also the bootstrap JS relies upon jQuery so
> you might benefit from having jQuery load first.  Not sure about the
> pier.js stuff.
> 
> 
> 
> I just use a component at the end of the page with a render method like
> 
> addJsToPage:html
> 	html script resourceUrl:'js/JQuery.minjs'.
> 	html script resourceUrl: 'js/site.js'
> 
> at the base of my main component to load JS at the end.
> 
> 
> also there is a 'yslow' addon for firefox/chrome that may help trouble
> shoot why the page is slow.  Its from Yahoo here:
> 
> http://yslow.org/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/27/2012 11:34 AM, Tudor Girba wrote:
>> Hi Bob and James,
>> 
>> Thanks again.
>> 
>> It seems to be that the 15s is too much of a coincidence :).
>> 
>> I put together two experiments that show that the loading problem depends on the amount of images:
>> 
>> - a page with 3 extra images on top of the template. This seems to exhibit the problem for exactly one slow loading image:
>> http://www.humane-assessment.com/test3ExtraImages
>> 
>> - a page with only 1 extra image on top of the template. This loads fine:
>> http://www.humane-assessment.com/testOneExtraImage
>> 
>> 
>> But, I still do not quite understand where to look next. Any further advice?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Doru
>> 
>> 
>> On 26 Nov 2012, at 20:41, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> I wrote a Squeak simulation of the browser loading 14 of the files on your page. I used a separate process for each httpGet: and typically were complete in under 1.5 seconds. When I hit reload on the browser, there are often 1 or 2 files taking a bit over 15 seconds. Suggests something different about how the browser requests data vs. my simple simulation.
>>> 
>>> Interesting that the response headers are:
>>> 
>>> HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
>>> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:19:23 GMT
>>> Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu)
>>> Connection: Keep-Alive
>>> Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
>>> ETag: "392802a-7974-4cf387f145600"
>>> 
>>> Is it just a coincidence that the keep-alive timeout is 15 seconds and that the slow files take 15.7 seconds? Attached is an HAR file with the browser timing details.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bob
>>> 
>>> On 11/26/12 4:27 AM, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>>> Hi Paul, hi James,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the answers.
>>>> 
>>>> I also thought it has to do with the Apache config, but I had no idea what to look for. Your suggestion certainly look interesting to look into, but I have close to no clue of how to do it. Do you happen to have a bit more hands-on pointers for         how to:
>>>> - increase the resources count
>>>> - add expire headers for the images
>>>> 
>>>> ?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Doru
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I suspect James has the answer but you might also consider doing the
>>>> following:
>>>> 
>>>> -Add expires headers for the images in Apache and people will only have
>>>> to download them once.
>>>> 
>>>> -Apache 2.2.8 was released Jan 19, 2008 so I'd definitely spend time
>>>> upgrading to the latest stable version just to get the security
>>>> vulnerability fixes.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 11/25/2012 08:11 PM, James Foster wrote:
>>>>> Hi Doru,
>>>>> 
>>>>> How many resources do you have loading from the same site? Once I had a problem in which Apache was configured (by default) to only provide ten (10) items per second to the same client. I believe this was an attempt to avoid a denial-of-service attack. When I changed Apache to allow 30 items per second then my site loaded much faster.
>>>>> 
>>>>> James
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 25, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks. But, somehow, I think size is not really the issue.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Somehow randomly, one or two of the pictures take significantly more (the delta is measured in seconds) to load than the others.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And yes, I am using the timeline debugging functionality from the browser.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It's strange.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Doru
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 24 Nov 2012, at 10:26, Gerhard Obermann <obi068 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Doru,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I would reduce the image size to the displayed size and reduce the bit depth of the png to 8.
>>>>>>> I tried it with home-icons-400-200-37.png.
>>>>>>> Before: 31.092 Bytes
>>>>>>> After: 7.678 Bytes
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>> Gerhard
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Tudor Girba <tudor at tudorgirba.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I am working on a pier page, and I have a couple of images in it that seem to be slow to load, although they are served through apache.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It is true that the images are slightly large (~230K), but still I think they appear too slow.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The example is here:
>>>>>>> http://www.humane-assessment.com/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Anyone has any idea of why this would happen?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Doru
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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