By Ned Land on

I'm in the final stages of creating a drupal environment.

I selected and installed the greenthing theme, but when I navigate the site, the response object I often get is immediately an unformated plain vanilla HTML page and then, about a second later, the fully rendered greenthing theme. After a page is cached it stops. Does anyone know what causes this?

You can observe it at www.grahn400.com/drupal

Thanks,

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ezheidtmann’s picture

ezheidtmann commented

The behavior you describe is probably a result of loading the CSS or supporting images after the initial HTML is loaded. Your browser does its best to display the page as it is being loaded, but it won't look exactly as you designed it until it's completely loaded.

You can reduce the effects of this by reducing the size of your HTML, images, and CSS, and using on-the-fly gzip compression.

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

Google for FOUC
The bluerobot explanation will explain it better.

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