slow load times

[Otakunerd]

Firstly, I'd like make sure that other people load the pages (especally the forum) slowly. if noone else has this problem, then I will assume that the site just hates me (it does it to me on multiple connections, with multiple computers, including my high school's T1, college's T3 and 56K at home)<br><br>the reason that I bring this up at all is that the problem seems to lie in the code. when I connect to the main site, I get an error code "error creating cookie X" or however it goes. when I log onto the forum, I get not only the same error, but an error that states "object expected". on more recent versions of browsers, the browser will pause, but continue to lad a page even when there is a critical error, often times not even noifying the user of it's existance. I believe that is what is happening here. If earie is using a prebuilt page and modifying it, or if she is using a WYSIWYG, then this error is not only possible, but likely.<br><br>basically what I'm saying is that if anyone here has the experence and knoledge neccacary to debug the page, please do so. I'm sure all of us would be happier with faster load times.<br><Br>and again, if the site just hates me, I'm sorry that I wasted forum space to post this.

[ZOMBIE USER 1425]

First off, have you tried it with different browsers (you've tried everything else...)? Could be that the browser you're using is out of date. Aeire's HTML doesn't look bad; at least, I've seen much worse. <g> Certainly nothing that would necessarily cause slow loading times. However, there are a few bits that are added onto all *Space (and *Spot) comics that could be the source of the problems.<P> <P>This loads the newsbox, I think. gear.keenspace.com is the Keenspace construction yard. Take a look; they have some interesting stuff.<P>The Paypal box is a tad unusual but doesn't seem to have any weird code. I don't think that's it. <P><script language="JavaScript1.1"
src="http://mercury.beseen.com/quizlet/y/42175/quizlet.js">
</script><P>This is the poll code. I haven't a clue what it entails. But I don't know that it's <I>not</I> a problem, so it's getting listed.<P>Now, this is the one that I think is probably the problem.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" SRC="http://www.keenspot.org/premium-services/getcookie.cgi">
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT">
< !--
adfvalid = false;
replad = "";
adbanloc = "";
if (adcookie != "") {
document.write("<S"+"CRIPT LANGUAGE='JAVASCRIPT' SRC='http://www.keenspot.org/premium-service ... /S"+"CRIPT>");
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT">
< !--
if (!adfvalid) {
document.write("<S"+"CRIPT LANGUAGE='JAVASCRIPT' SRC='http://ad.keenspace.com/burstfn.js'></S"+"CRIPT>");
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>This does all sorts of stuff with Javascript, as well as apparently checking to see if you're on the Premium service by looking for a special cookie. Seems to me that this could easily be the source of our problems. It might be worth asking at Keenspace Central (or even Spot Central) about it. I know that the Space comics as a whole haven't exactly been speedy lately.<P>Can't think of anything else to say, really, except that I just realized that this stuff will be read as actual HTML by the UBB system. Dammitall. Select "view source" on the main Xenith page to get the stuff I tried to post. *sigh*<P>-Derakon, who has yet to get more complicated than tables in his website.<P>Edit: if you try to edit my post, you can see the source that I posted. That way you won't have to tread through all of the stuff on the front page.<P>------------------
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