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Title: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: Hoagie_one on January 26, 2005, 11:16:07 am

many of you guys have the animated avatars, which are making my board browsing very choppy.

any idea why?

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: RayB on January 26, 2005, 11:21:28 am

They are way too big in terms of filesize. To people with high-speed broadband it doesn't affect us much, but if you're on dial-up, it causes problems, especially if the thread has alot of photos in it.

Oh and the other problem is if you use IE, IE waits until a Table's contents are completely loaded before displaying it. Netscape displays table contents as it loads.

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: Sephroth57 on January 26, 2005, 11:22:37 am

i dont notice any problems, you on dialup?

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: Hoagie_one on January 26, 2005, 12:51:22 pm

no dialup.  Its ggkouls avatoar that is boggin me down.

see thread

http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: missioncontrol on January 26, 2005, 12:59:06 pm

I'm on dial-up and most everything else loads up before the avitars so no problems here...

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: DrewKaree on January 26, 2005, 01:09:00 pm

I'm on dial-up and even with all the av's, it runs just fine.  I use Firefox, and I have a rather large web cache, so perhaps that has a few things to do with it.  Tell GG to use the new one he got from me  :o

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: Hoagie_one on January 26, 2005, 01:10:13 pm

its not horrible enough for poeple to start changing avatars, just choppy.

Could be IE, dunno

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: RayB on January 26, 2005, 01:26:15 pm

Could be your settings aren't caching them...

Drew's Penguin avatar for example is excessive. 350kb for one avatar. GGkoul's avatar is 130kb.

Just for comparison, the average animated banner ad (468x60) is anywhere between 15kb and 40kb.

And for further comparison, my Speedy animation is 5kb while the skeleton warrior is 8kb.  ;D

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: Crazy Cooter on January 26, 2005, 07:46:50 pm

You could try Proxomitron and just freeze animated gifs all together. ;)

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: SOAPboy on January 26, 2005, 08:43:42 pm

Quote from: RayB on January 26, 2005, 01:26:15 pm

Could be your settings aren't caching them...

Drew's Penguin avatar for example is excessive. 350kb for one avatar. GGkoul's avatar is 130kb.

Just for comparison, the average animated banner ad (468x60) is anywhere between 15kb and 40kb.

And for further comparison, my Speedy animation is 5kb while the skeleton warrior is 8kb.

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: danny_galaga on January 27, 2005, 10:01:09 am

i noticed it especially with the 'peales avatar' thread where all the crazy avatar action was happening. and im on dsl...

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: SirPeale on January 27, 2005, 10:05:59 am

Lately that might have been because the stripper girl was 5.1M.  I've decided to go back to stock Superman for now.

Title: Re: maybe its just me but these animated avatars are killing my performance
Post by: Stingray on January 27, 2005, 01:27:19 pm

They don't slow me doen at all at work, where I do most of my web browsing. However at home out in the boonies there's no internet but dialup. Some of the threads here just choke my connection if I try to view them from home.

-S