E-Junkie Forum http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/ E-Junkie Forum RSS en-us Copyright 2013, 19.5 Degrees. All rights reserved. webmaster@e-junkie.com webmaster@e-junkie.com Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:07:27 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 22:31:43 GMT 681 E-JUNKIE 5 E-Junkie Forum http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/ http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/logo.gif 290 104 Post #8 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:07:27 GMT
I think I'd like to give it a shot. Can someone please send me all the javascript code that I'd need to run the site from my end?


Cheers,

Tom]]>
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Post #7 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:27:01 GMT E-junkie Discussions; E-junkieGuru Post #6 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:01:05 GMT
Would it then be possible to get the box.js script to put on my own server to stop this problem. I know everything works fine in the US, but most of my customers are in the UK and Europe, where our server is.


Cheers,

Tom]]>
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Post #5 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:47:38 GMT
As I was alluding to above, page load performance will depend on each user's general geographic location and the robustness of their ISP connection.

When your browser loads the page, it loads the page source itself and any of its images and other files (JS/CSS/etc.) from the same server where you host your Web site, but it loads the parts relating to our cart (our button images and the box.js cart script) from our Tucson datacenter.

Greater distance from Tucson will tend to correspond with decreasing responsiveness, and a really robust connection (say, using an ISP with a lot of high-capacity backbone redundancy and surplus capacity) will tend to perform better than a marginal one (ISP using only one fat backbone uplink or a few smallish ones, or running close to full capacity).]]>
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Post #4 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:59:59 GMT E-junkie Discussions; ashleykaryl Post #3 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:26:34 GMT
For the sake of comparison I visited Tom's site and it seemed to load far quicker than mine.]]>
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Post #2 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:16:42 GMT
If you want to test, find this line in your page:

<script src='http://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/box.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

...and disable it by "commenting it out" in HTML, like so:

<!-- script src='http://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/box.js' type='text/javascript'></script -->

Then clear your browser cache and reload the page (use Ctrl-Refresh or Ctrl-F5) to see if that improves your page loads. If so, then that is indeed the drag, at least for buyers near your location (I didn't experience the problem because I'm loading box.js from our datacenter just across town, not across an entire ocean and continent :^). Other UK buyers in a region with more robust Internet connectivity (say, around London) may not even notice much of a drag at all.

In that case, you may want to consider giving up the overlay-style cart (which requires loading that box.js file from our server) and just use the non-JavaScript version of our button codes, which opens the cart in a new window/tab. You don't really even need to replace your button codes, as simply removing box.js will make your existing JS buttons work in "fallback mode" using the new window/tab anyway.

We do not recommend saving a local copy of box.js to load from your own server, as that would miss any bugfixes or other enhancements to the cart we roll out from time to time, and we haven't really designed box.js to work as a local copy nor tested it that way, so we can't be certain it would work properly.]]>
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Post #1 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3960/pg/0#post12786 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:03:24 GMT
I've been happily using e-junkie for a while now, but with one nagging problem. When my page loads, it takes it's time and looks really bad with things shifting around before settling. I paid a couple of web designers to look through it and see what the problem is, and they both (independently) said that it was the e-junkie code that was doing this.

Here's my site: http://tinyurl.com/ddmb47, and I was wondering what can be done about this? Why does the code slow everything down?


Cheers,

Tom]]>
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