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Help me slim down my sluggish music blog (tumblr)?


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http://apatheticarousal.tumblr.com/

Im using the latest firefox on an updated macbook pro, and the site scrolls really sluggishly, compared to others.

I am embedding flash objects (soundcloud, bandcamp, youtube videos) and i use streampad to play all songs (bottom bar)

I dont want to remove these

The mouseover html on the main logo seems slow as well comparing with how http://www.transparentblog.com/ does it, which i think is with javascript (dont know how to do that >_<)

I attached the code. It is used with the default tumblr theme. Hopefully some of you will look at it and know what to cut out or change to make it a little more snappier

Thank you!

TumblrThemeNov29.txt

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I think it could just be that you're using a watermarked/unscrolling browser. Nearly all browsers apart from Opera tend to slow down when you're using them :/<img>

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I'm not experiencing any scroll lag on latest Firefox (on W7) here at all. Could just be that your browser is having a hard time with rending properly with all of that flash on it. If you've got any archive pages in Tumblr that don't have flash apps on it, scroll through and see if you still have the same lag or if it's non-existent.

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I'm not experiencing any scroll lag on latest Firefox (on W7) here at all. Could just be that your browser is having a hard time with rending properly with all of that flash on it. If you've got any archive pages in Tumblr that don't have flash apps on it, scroll through and see if you still have the same lag or if it's non-existent.

yes its still there. i even tried removing the embedded flash on the navigation. other websites with embedded flash dont scroll slow. i feel like there is something in my code that is causing it.

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I went crazy with scrolling on it to try to duplicate and/or make flash bug out.. Nothing :\ Scrolling was still smooth.

What CPU does your MBP have? Got latest version of flash?

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I think it could just be that you're using a watermarked/unscrolling browser. Nearly all browsers apart from Opera tend to slow down when you're using them :/<img>

Bugger, I meant background image, sorry :p

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Bugger, I meant background image, sorry :p

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1. Why do you have that <img> thing?

2. Why are you saying browsers besides opera scroll badly with backgrounds?

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1. Why do you have that <img> thing?

2. Why are you saying browsers besides opera scroll badly with backgrounds?

I was going to ask the same question re: <img>. He has that after all of his posts and it was driving me bat**** crazy! :p :laugh:

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Its the fixed background, some browsers don't like it.

This!! This is what I was trying to say! :p

About the <img> thing, that's just my beta version of Opera being retarded, not me. I certainly don't intenionally add it, it does ot for me after I submit my post :p (Also, I was saying Opera scrolls the best with watermarked/fixed backgrounds, every other browser tends to have worse performance with then)

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Some browsers behave like crap with fixed position backgrounds due to how they paint, Firefox for example re-paints everything on every scroll (changed in Firefox 4, so it's perfectly smooth now)

In this case I think it's just due to the mix of Flash and a fixed position background. On Windows I'd make them windowed, but that's not possible on OS X.

Edit: At least some of your Flash <objects> have a wmode set to transparent. That's pretty much the worst case for performance, so only use it if you need it (Otherwise use opaque or windowed)

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