Unresponsive script – is it bad to cancel?
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When opening or saving a page on my blog on WP.com, I get this message on large pages (100 pictures – lots of text). This message can appear several times.
“A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.”
I have been selecting ‘Continue” instead of “Stop” and as I have said I have to do this seveeral times, sometimes 5 times. As you can see the process of saving a page can be complicated. It can take 5-10 minutes to save a page.
I have been choosing “Continue” because I thought it would be ‘safer’ to do so – no loss of any work etc.
But I am getting tired of doing this as it is taking too long and 90% of my pages are of a large size (at least 100 images on the page – I am treating each page as a “chapter” and that’s why the pages are so large.)
I have checked that I am not doing anything wrong like putting in script that I am not supposed to and have posted on the forum several times about this. As far as I can tell, I am not doing anything like this, all I do is copy and paste text (in plain mode) and adding images.
So now I am wondering if I can save time when I “Save” a page by choosing “Stop” (the loading of the script – I think this is WP’s own script) without losing any work or not saving something properly. I am worried about this because I chose “Stop” once and next time I opened the page, some things I had added on just before were not there. (Maybe it was only a cache problem? I don’t know, but it scared me and I have chosen ‘Continue” (loading the script) since.
But this is getting really tiresome as I like to save often as I have lost work in the past by accidental deletion, power cord getting pulled out of the computer (which happens a lot in my case as the connection to the laptop is touch and go).
However this means I have to wait and waste maybe an hour or more a day just waiting for the page to be saved and I am getting really tired of this.
So is “Stop” dangerous or not?
Thank you for replying.
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You’re right – it must be the large number of images I put on the page as this thing (script message popping up) doesn’t occur when I save small pages (<20 images).
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Doesn’t selecting “Stop” stop the script from finishing loading? If the script is WP script and that script puts up images then stopping the script will prevent the images from loading onto the blog, won’t it? Could that be why I didn’t see the images I had loaded earlier after I chose the “Stop” option once?
The script has to be WP’s as I don’t insert script of my own – I’ve checked that (besides I wouldn’t know how to do that anyway).
I am still worried I could lose my work permanently if I choose “Stop”.
I think the script is for the loading of images as I insert heaps of images onto the blog page (hundreds).
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Couldn’t you just post the images in smaller groups? It’s probably very irritating for visitors to your blog to have pages that take forever to load. If you’re tempted to give up, then they already have!
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I think rosclarke has made an important point and asked an important question. Our blogs are for our readers and what they experience should always be upper-most in our minds. In fact, most people on the internet are on dial-up service.
If pages are full of images or embeds, etc. and/or if there are too many posts on the front page then they simply click out because the page takes too long to load. I’m on a dedicated high speed service and I will not dally waiting for over-laden blog pages to load. If it doesn’t load quickly I click out and never return.
You can check your page loading time with this tool http://www.iwebtool.com/speed-test/
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The blog is for me and a couple of other people to read and not for the public. The purpose of the blog isn’t about making it reader-friendly, I need to post these pictures – don’t have any choice – this is what the blog’s about.
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The loading of the page is no problem, I’ve tested it and it’s OK. What IS the problem is putting in all these pictures takes too long, a lot of time wasted watching for the image script to load. Also saving takes a long time too. Other browser windows get slowed down too. I’ve broken up the page and made several pages from it and that makes things faster but I still will have to put the page together as one eventually as 1 page=1 chapter and then I will have the same problem again.
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Would it be quicker to load the images to flickr or photobucket or somewhere and just have clickable thumbnails on the actual blog? I think the problem really is that you’re trying to use the blog for a task that it’s not best designed for.
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