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I need some help from users here. Please check my site http://www.sharpgambler.com and report me if you feel it is not opening in a timely fashion, if it is too slow to open.
thanks.
Seems fine to me….
Nice Site. Loads fine for me.
Fine here too. Seemed pretty average to me… not lightening quick but definitely not too slow.
Maybe you could use a free tool like http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze to get an idea what if anything you can do to improve load times.
I’d agree with the diagnoses here:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
It would very problematic unless a person has a high speed connection.
Kudos on using XHTML!
To be honest, for a website that validates in xhtml, that page loads pretty slowly for me.
First thing you should do is get rid of tables in your HTML unless they are actually representing data.
You’re reducing your website’s ability to be search-engine friendly by using tables for layout purposes. You’re also increasing the load time with them.
Tables are not for layout :shooter:
Thanks for the help. It seems fast to me but my connection is very good. Looking at the website you give the link it seems very bad with load times of 500s for 56k. I don’t believe that’s true.
About the xhtml thing, yes I use it, not strict as I want it to be but transitional. I have to improve the code because of issues with that.
About the tables, yes I use tables for layout purposes. I’m not seeing a different way of organizing the layout without tables. maybe you Jocelyn can drop here some words about alternate ways.
There are a couple of options for that.
You could try learning ‘floats’, which a lot of people get discouraged by. I was in the middle of writing an article regarding floats, but ended up stopping half-way through. It’s hard to explain, but here are some articles that are written by others:
http://www.pmob.co.uk/temp/3colfixedtest_sourcenone.htm (example)
http://www.bigbaer.com/css_tutorials/css.float.html.tutorial.htmFloats are discouraging, but they can help you improve your code and search engines will respond to that.
The other way would be absolute positioning the sections of your website, but a lot of times, absolutely positioned websites will break on different screen resolutions and operating systems.
Thank you jocelyn for your help on “floats”. You are right when you say that the site loads slowly for a xhtml site.
The truth is, the script behind the site has conditions to validate in xhtml strict and to load without any table, but I didn’t have the time to add content and to validate all in xhtml strict and without tables. It is easier to go xhtml transitional and with tables.
I’m working to validate the site in strict xhtml and table less, but it’s a great headache. It’s easier to add a table than to work with css with div tags. By other side, you need to correct all the affiliate code provided by casinos. For example I can’t use “target=blank”, I have to substitute “&” by “&”, br tags must have a “/” at the end, etc….There is no space for cut and paste.
When I have the time to learn a little more I will try the “floats thing” since I agree that tables is not for layout.
Jocelyn I followed your advice. Now the site is tableless and xhtml strict.
Well, not 100% true because I’m still working on a few issues, but will be very soon.
Thank you for pointing me these issues.
