[En-Nut-Discussion] Pictures load very slow

Rick Collins ethernut at arius.com
Sat Jan 7 16:07:03 CET 2006


At 05:08 AM 1/7/2006, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I built an application which draws some thermometer displays on a webpage.
>It does this using a few small an constant GIFs.
>
>As the application grow, it becomes slower and slower. The page needs up to
>5 sec to load, sometimes there are even some of the gifs missing.
>Is there any idea what causes this slowdown and how to fix it?
>
>Since the gifs are constant, it is not necessary for the browser to load
>them everytime. How can I say to the browser that it should cache the
>pictures but not the page itself?
>
>Is it possible to first load the pictures and then draw the page, to skip
>that flickering during page load?
>
>If you want to see what I mean you can access the Ethernut on
>trektechX.Xdyn.eeX:X5103
>
>Skip the X, they are for fooling robots and spammers only.


I see the same thing, it takes about 5 seconds to fully load all graphics 
every time it updates.

I have no suggestions on how to fix it.






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