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Speed up Safari page load times by disabling JavaScript
Authored by: schaps on Oct 13, '03 12:28:35PM

I have been dealing with this for months-- one of my local newspapers, StarTribune.com, does not work well with Safari, and I have traced it to something with Javascript - if I switch off Javascript, the pages may look different but load fine.

Others who have tested it briefly said it loads fine, but I think the problem comes when you become a (free) registered user, which sets a cookie, because if I delete all the "startribune.com" and "www.startribune.com" cookies, the site runs OK again until I login (which is required to read any of their articles). It then progressively slows to a crawl, with page loads taking 30 seconds or more of spinning beach ball. Again, though, turning off Javascript results in instant quick surfing.

I have bug-reported this many times, but unless a tester spends a bit of time surfing around and does the free registration, they will not notice it.

And of course, since it only seems to affect Safari, Startribune.com doesn't give a rip.

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Speed up Safari page load times by disabling JavaScript
Authored by: nickfitz on Oct 14, '03 10:53:57AM

FWIW, one of the problems is probably

http://www.startribune.com/style/scripts/s_code.js
which does an inordinate amount of string manipulation for the apparent purpose of link tracking. On story pages,
http://www.startribune.com/style/style_exceptions.js
is used to write out a CSS stylesheet in a way that accounts for different browsers, which is probably a bit of a performance killer.

IMHO, those pages are using lots of JavaScript to do stuff that could be done more efficiently on the server.



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