background not loading properly

[Rho Delta]

half the time my site is loading with a plain white background rather than the sunset one I have set that has been working for weeks...

 

[Jake Bunce]

Can you post the URL?

Did you implement that random background image you posted about?

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/wallpaper-size.22055/

That might be it.

 

[Rho Delta]

no random image, seems to be working now. It is just an image I have uploaded at imgur

 

[Paul B]

If you are relying on an external server for the image, then that could be the reason.

Consider hosting the image on your own server.

 

[Rho Delta]

If you are relying on an external server for the image, then that could be the reason.

Consider hosting the image on your own server.

How much will that effect loading time for my site? Will it slow it down/eat up a ton of bandwidth?

 

[Jake Bunce]

How much will that effect loading time for my site? Will it slow it down/eat up a ton of bandwidth?

Not as much as you might think. The image is cached in the browser after the first load.

How big is the image?

 

[Paul B]

It's only 280KB: http://i.imgur.com/JbVZm.jpg

That really won't affect it much, depending on traffic of course.

 

[Rho Delta]

It's only 280KB: http://i.imgur.com/JbVZm.jpg

That really won't affect it much, depending on traffic of course.

changed, thanks for the info

 

[Rho Delta]

It is happening again and I am self hosting now.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Can you post the URL so I can see the problem?

 

[Rho Delta]

http://oldrow.net/

It is happening very sporadically

 

[Jake Bunce]

It's working fine for me.

Chrome has some nice dev tools which allow you to see each individual request on a page. If you can reproduce the problem in that browser then the tools may give you some useful information such as a http status code. Also check your server error logs.

 

[Rho Delta]

Now it is doing it almost every time for me.

 

[Rho Delta]

help please.

 

[Rho Delta]

My background loads then turns white for users pretty frequently on many different pages. First we thought it was because we were not hosting the image ourselves, but I started hosting it and it is still happening. I haven't gotten any real answers in the other forum sections so I think it may be a bug of some sort. Thanks. Running 1.1 RC1

www.oldrow.net

 

[Paul B]

I have moved the thread from bugs to troubleshooting as this is simply something related to your server or style.

You do already have a thread open on this though so I will merge them.

 

[Mike]

I haven't had any issues with the background image loading here - tried in Chrome, FF, IE9, and IE7.

I'd recommend hiding all modifications to the style but that background image and see if you can still reproduce the problem. It could be related to advertisements messing with the page.

 

[Rho Delta]

I turned off [bd] rotating ads and I haven't seen it happen again... could be an issue with this add on or adbrite.