Site Incredibly Slow on Internet Explorer 6, Fine on IE7 and Firefox..
My site is accessed by users globally and unfortunatley a lot of them happen to use Internet Explorer 6. I acquired a copy of Windows XP so I can run the same environment they are running and my site is incredibly slow in Internet Explorer 6. It works fine in IE 7 and Firefox when I use the same internet connection and same exact machine (I just swap out the hard drive for XP to Ubuntu or Win. Vista), I would be happy to hear from anyone else to deals with a lot of IE 6 traffic. I don't know anything about this piece of s%ht other than its years out of date, does anyone else have problems with it making your site slow loading, I can literally see that its having a problem with some php script because it takes a few seconds before it starts saying "loading whatever" at the bottom of the screen but I don't know where to begin.
Is there a URL we can
Is there a URL we can check... or is it a secret? ;)
I've posted it in a bunch of
I've posted it in a bunch of other threads, lol didn't want to make it seem like I'm posting my url everywhere I can, the url is: http://telecommutereview.com - I just checked the site in IE6 when I woke up and it seemed to be going faster, I checked my analytics software and the amount of traffic I'm getting now is about the same as last night when I checked it so I don't think its that the server was overloaded last night, I use adwords to drive a lot of cheap traffic to the site. So I don't know whats going on I will keep checking it
Unfortunately my site is overwhelmingly viewed by IE 6, like almost 75% of users, I am going to try to convert them to Firefox, maybe I will look into that kill IE module, however I think many people may be accessing the site from Internet Cafes so it wouldn't do much good then.
Re: slow in internet explorer 6
<?php
$ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
if (strpos($ua,'MSIE') != false && strpos($ua,'Opera') === false)
{
if (strpos($ua,'Windows NT 5.2') != false)
{
if(strpos($ua,'.NET CLR') === false) return;
}
if (substr($ua,strpos($ua,'MSIE')+5,1) < 7)
{
header('Location: enter website address here including http/ie6.html');
}
}
?>
Works for me to redirect visitors to a custom Internet Explorer 6 page requesting them kindly to upgrade their browser to IE7 or another browser of their choosing.
But if 75% of your visitors is IE6 traffic would you really want to do that? On my site the number IE6 visitors isn't that high of a number.
Are you using an alternate sylesheet for IE6? Check to see if your css code is valid (oh the irony and humor) . In my experience some CMS's can slow down if the css code doesn't validate. Don't ask me why.
I looked, couldn't tell any
I looked, couldn't tell any difference at all between FF2, IE6 or IE7. Fact of life, a lot of people use IE6, if you're serious about being in this business you better get used to it, we've been dealing with the "outdated browser hanging around forever" issue, forever... anyone remember Netscape 4, ohh or what about IE5 for Mac, what a beauty that was...
Personally I'm pinning my hopes on the end of this year as turning point of the final decline of IE6...
Fact of life a multi-billion
Offtopic
Fact of life a multi-billion dollar company can't or won't update IE6 to IE7 standards.
If a customer would want me to design for IE6 (or any other browser for that matter) I would do so.
Anyway back ontopic. ;-)
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edited for clarification:
From my most recent experience XP SP3 may force the IE7 upgrade, as I couldn't find any options nor was I presented any options to turn off the upgrade to IE7.
Here's hoping IT departments at multibillion dollar companies don't sit back on their hands and ignore the SP3 update.
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