u r more than welcome .. :)

Please, check the above posts. :)

BoYagoob, thank you for your contribution.

The title has been edited slightly as we felt it was slightly misleading. I have also added a note that this only works in IE.

Ok i just gave this a try on a board that has a lot of forums (500+) where the forumhome is loading kinda slow (5-10 seconds to fully load). In the top of the page there are 2 animated banner images.

I do understand that is only a visual trick and doesn't really speed things up.

How i tested?
- Applied the above change
- Did an initial pageload (i asume it doesn't make a difference on the first page load)
- Scrolled to the bottom of the page
- Did a page refresh

This was really a confusing ;) experience.
- To my feeling it took a bit longer until the cursor changed to the 'busy' icon.
- While still viewing the bottom of the page (where i ofcourse can not click anything, since the page is not really loaded yet), the 2 dynamic banner images where showing on top of the text in the bottom of the page.
- After the normal time it takes to load the page, the screen seems 'suddenly' to refresh, the 2 banner images that where blended over the bottom of the page disappeared, and normal control was returned.

Bottom line i think is that while it might give a better look on some forums, it might also be causing confusion on others. So use it with care.

If you have a relative fast loading page (from a human perspective, loading in less then 1-2 seconds), it might give the human eye the impression of faster loading. If the page takes longer, then it will probably be confusing.

Not bad... thanks!

Dark Blade
Coder
u r welcome. :)


Paul M
Coding Team Leader
No problem at all :), it's your thread and feel free to add/remove/edit any thing to make it useful for everyone. I appreciate your efforts :).


Marco van Herwaarden
Lead Admin vBulletin.org Coding Team Admin
I am very happy to read your reply in my thread :), and as you may know I am a beginner in decoding for vB. Unfortuantly, I can only test this modification only in my own forum and my test forum. So, as you stated it depends in the forums:

Also, for sure, this is the fact:

Kind regadrs. :)

Hm, curious. I can't quite put my finger on the overall effect, it's a little unusual. However my forum is quite fast loading and it does seem to make a bit of an illusional difference as Marco said so I'll see what people think. Or if they notice at all. :)

My forums are fast loading 'ish anyway, but since installing/adding this IE does appear to be quicker ;)
It appears to hold, then load the full page in 1 swoop...The hold is about 3 seconds
Please can you try to find a way for Firefox and other browsers?

I for 1 will keep this running thanks...

There seems to be a way to do this with other browsers, but that would require a JS-script. Look at the explanation link posted on the first page. On that page you will find a second link explaining how to do such a thing for other browser, but it is way more complicated.

Hay this has any effect on search engine listing or bots reading the forum?
I mean bots will mess up reading this code, rank low etc..?

mmmm I am not sure if I understand your question well, but see if the HEADER template is used in any pages, so the effect will be happened in these pages. :)