Progressbar for Slow Loading Webpages

[Sudheendra Panganamala]

Hi,

I would like to show a progress bar in the browser until my pages load.

As my web pages take more that 10 seconds to load, I have decided to
show the progres bar.

Please help me with your ideas
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[Frederick Cheung]

On Sep 2, 11:05 am, Sudheendra Panganamala <li...@ruby-forum.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to show a progress bar in the browser until my pages load.
>
> As my web pages take more that 10 seconds to load, I have decided to
> show the progres bar.

Don't think you can do that on a normal page - rails sends the entire
response in one go. If you were loading some piece of content via ajax
then you could of course do this.

Fred

[Peter Hickman]

You already have one, most browsers have a progress bar to show that
the page is loading.

How about putting some effort into getting the pages to load quicker?

[Aleksey Gureiev]

> How about putting some effort into getting the pages to load quicker?

Exactly my thought. If you want to load something huge (what that could be?), load a really small screen first with some "welcome. please wait" and then make a background call for everything else. But it would definitely be better to lower the request processing time (if it's the case) or the size of page accessories (if it is).

- A

[Adrian Wadey]

On Sep 2, 11:05 am, Sudheendra Panganamala <li...@ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to show a progress bar in the browser until my pages load.
>
> As my web pages take more that 10 seconds to load, I have decided to
> show the progres bar.
>

> Please help me with your ideas

JavaScript will execute as soon as it is loaded. You might be able to use,
or use the ideas at:

http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/tips/progress.htm

[Ar Chron]

Sudheendra Panganamala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to show a progress bar in the browser until my pages load.
>
> As my web pages take more that 10 seconds to load, I have decided to
> show the progres bar.
>
> Please help me with your ideas

Page and/or fragment caching works wonders... rarely is absolutely
everything dynamic on a page. I've even seen benefits from caching rows
in an index view when assembling the data for each row requires complex
backend work.