Internet Explorer takes considerably more time to load than FireFox-- to the point where it actually freezes. How can I prevent this?

Question

Hi,

One of our main pages takes an immense amount of time to load in IE8 (have not tried IE7 or 6). It's so bad that IE actually freezes up for a few seconds while trying to load the page.

Firefox is perfectly fine...

I've tried a bunch of different things but I cannot figure out what it is.

It's not very js intensive, although we are using modules (platform is DNN) that may be using a lot of js.

here's the link: One World United
username: matt
password: globalbuying

Could you please take a look at the page and try to analyze what it is and what we can do to fix it.

Thanks, Matt

Answer 1

well on my comp it took less than 5 seconds to load, did you test it on multiple computers or just one? if just one it could be an addin issue.

Answer 2

Have you tested the site with IE8 compatibility mode on, and then compatibility mode off? If either of those works significantly better, you could try something like forcing IE7 standards mode:

http://www.thechoppr.com/blog/2009/04/07/force-ie7-standards-on-ie8/

Answer 3

Are you trying to manipulate any divs with js before they are fully parsed? That will screw up IE but FireFox will process that just fine.

Answer 4

Didnt take much time to load for me either. This has happened to me occasionally when I had an unclosed div that was somehow conflicting with some JavaScript that I had at the end of the HTML.