[Solved] Performance Issues in IE (mainly 8)

[Austra02]

Hi everyone...

 

I'm having strange issues running Prestashop (v. 1.5.3.1) in IE (all versions - but mainly IE8)... And yes, I know having issues running anything in IE is a tautology, but please stick with me ;-)

 

So, in ALL other browsers, my site is running excellently (fast page-load times etc); however, in IE, the page load times are off the Richter Scale slow. And the page simply freezes while it is waiting to load. In the notification bar at the bottom of IE, it is stating it is waiting to download a random, obscure - and VERY small image (like a 'social button' icon, or similar). As I mentioned, it is random the image it states it is waiting to download.

 

This effectively renders the entire site useless if a user is on IE (why anyone would choose to use IE is beyond me, but unfortunately, we have to live with this I guess).

 

I am at a loss as to what is happening - and why it ONLY impacts IE. As I said, ALL other browsers load the pages fine.

 

If anyone could please take a look and let me know what I've either done wrong, or what is going on, that would be awesome! This is a serious issue now as the owner of the company does not want to launch the site until it is sorted - and unfortunately, she uses... you guessed it: IE8.

 

http://www.silkfibrelash.com

 

Click on any 'product' in the featured products on the main page and this is where the issues occur (home page is fine).

 

Thanks and I (desperately) hope someone can tell me what is going on, or what I have done wrong.

 

Cheers,

Scott.

Edited April 15, 2013 by Austra02 (see edit history)

[Dh42]

Have you tried debugging the traffic in fiddler2? You might try to sprite your images also to reduce http requests.

[cocothecat]

IE8 load times would be down to site optimisation it does not do well with loads of page requests like css and jquery, compile as much as you can and even combine some of the css that should help a great deal.

 

Id start to look at page load or speed tests then see what it comes back with and use that as your starting point. IE8 is a pain in the ass

[Austra02]

Thanks for the input - I appreciate it. It appears to be rare these days in this forum :-( so thanks again.

 

It turned out to actually be an issue with the last version of PS (1.5.3.1). There was a bug fix in the new release (1.5.4.0) that addressed this exact issue and once I applied the upgrade, all sorted.

 

Thanks again.