I'm looking for a tech explanation or suggestions for improvement. I'm very confused.
I'm dabbling with a new toplist:
http://www.spankingyou.com/autorank.html
It's set to display 50 banners; right now it's got about 35 showing.
I know that's a slow load for many users. I don't really care. Banner sizes are defined, so the whole page loads instantly; I wouldn't mind if it took a week to fill in the banners.
But that's not what happens. Instead, on my cable-modem-connected computer, banners load for 2-6 seconds, and any not loaded at the end of that time display as a red x. I can reload the page and the same thing happens, with different banners. Typically about ten banners fail to load, though it varies.
Back in the day, a browser would cheerfully spend two hours trying to load the graphical elements for a page over dialup. Why in hell is my page not loading completely, whether it takes ten seconds on my cable modem or two minutes for a dialup user?
All suggestions and speculations and advice gratefully considered.