I am working on a new website, which uses X and has a slider just like your own intro site. That works great, except one thing. When the page (re)loads, it loads parts of my main site page first before the slider takes control. This looks foolish and I want to get rid of it. I have played with different settings without luck.

I can provide a link to the running site privately.

Could you please advise me on what I can do to make it load faster or prevent the rest of the site to load ?

Thank you !

/Bo

Please read through this thread http://theme.co/x/member/forums/topic/slider-loading-last/

Hope that helps. 🙂

I am trying to find a solution, because loading parts of the page before the slider is not going to make it useful. So here’s my newbie ideas :

a) Is it possible someway to hack it to display only white while it loads ?

b) Can I anyway ease it by using the wordpress plugin which allows you to put javascripts in a global load ?

/Bo

Thank you for using the theme as always!

I checked the website again and maybe optimizing the page loading speed will improve how the slider and header behaves.

There are lot of things that you can do to optimize the website speed and page load. You can do the following:

1. Optimize all images with AI/Photoshop before uploading to server ‘save as web safe’ jpg
2. Once all images are on the website optimize with ewww optimizer plugin twice 1hr 10mins apart.
3. Install wp-smushit run once to remove jpeg extra data, then uninstall.
4. Use BWP minify plugin.
5. Install WP-Super cache, select all recommended settings, use memcache option, update .htaccess rules, increase cache to 840000, Save then delete cache.
6. Logout your website, visit every page at least once to create super cache files.
7. Join Cloudflare setup your website on their CDN, Choose options: Full CDN Optimisation save then activate purge files. once done log out.
8. Have a cup of coffee.
9. Visit your site after 20 minutes or so.
10. Dont forget to smile.

You can also utilize page preload like this: http://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-site-preloader/6421981

Anyway, you can observe the same thing is happening for Slider Revolution demos. The way they calculate the height for these elements is with JS, so it has to wait until the document is loaded to process the height of these things, which can cause the brief appearance of the header and then the video. Improving the page speed should minimize the appearance duration of the header close to zero.

Cheers!

I did some optimizing on the site and cut down a second last night, I would say I need at least one sec more and all profiling says it’s the javascripts that’s the problem.

3. Install wp-smushit run once to remove jpeg extra data, then uninstall.

I already did.

4. Use BWP minify plugin.

This I already tried, I especially want to use defer javascripts, but every plugin who offers this makes the site fail (including minify). The site doesn’t load the slider and the page is all messed up.

5. Install WP-Super cache, select all recommended settings, use memcache option, update .htaccess rules, increase cache to 840000, Save then delete cache.

I have that installed, but my hosting requires an upgrade to use memcahce, I am thinking about purchasing it.

7. Join Cloudflare setup your website on their CDN, Choose options: Full CDN Optimisation save then activate purge files. once done log out.

I am using this.

8. Have a cup of coffee.

Took a pepsi max.

So all in all , I agree loading of the site is where I need to work a bit.

Do you have suggestions to make defer javascripts work with X ?

Can anyone tell me how to make defer loading work ?

/Bo

You can try the methods discussed in this thread http://theme.co/x/member/forums/topic/optimisation-guide-for-x-themers-definitive-guide/

Please make sure you backup your site first so that you can revert to the previous version if the new setup doesn’t work.

hth

You can try the methods discussed in this thread http://theme.co/x/member/forums/topic/optimisation-guide-for-x-themers-definitive-guide/

Please make sure you backup your site first so that you can revert to the previous version if the new setup doesn’t work.

Hope that helps. 🙂

I might be wrong, but I seriously doubt it’s possible to make it work with the current plugin.

Sorry for the hick up, but I am at a dead end on this one.