The video for the About section of the Salient Demo loads instantly and is a massive file. Why would a small file on my end make the page load so slowly?
How did you get that file to load so quickly?
the video backgrounds are not waiting for the entire file to finish downloading before playing - they will load and start playing as soon as any bit of it has loaded and the rest will load as the video is playing. I don't see any video background on the URL you've provided but if there's another section you can lead me to i'd be glad to look :)
Sorry, I had removed it due to speed. On our about page you can see it now. www.nivedya.net/about-nivedya/ It just doesn't load nearly as fast as yours. Is this related to the bit rate you think? I'm somewhere around 800kbps
No, that's actually lower than what I used for the demo and your files are much smaller as a result. I encoded at 4000kbps and ended up with files 20mb+ - the difference could simply be your servers performance - I would get in touch with them and ask them if there's anyway to deliver the videos faster. You could also look at a CDN like cloudflare :)
Hey Judson,
the video backgrounds are not waiting for the entire file to finish downloading before playing - they will load and start playing as soon as any bit of it has loaded and the rest will load as the video is playing. I don't see any video background on the URL you've provided but if there's another section you can lead me to i'd be glad to look :)
Sorry, I had removed it due to speed. On our about page you can see it now. www.nivedya.net/about-nivedya/ It just doesn't load nearly as fast as yours. Is this related to the bit rate you think? I'm somewhere around 800kbps
Hey again Judson!
No, that's actually lower than what I used for the demo and your files are much smaller as a result. I encoded at 4000kbps and ended up with files 20mb+ - the difference could simply be your servers performance - I would get in touch with them and ask them if there's anyway to deliver the videos faster. You could also look at a CDN like cloudflare :)
Cheers
Wow! 4000kbps! Thanks for the advice. I use Cloudflare. What host are you on? Dreamhost VPS is killing me it is so slow
You're welcome :)
I'm not hosting with Rackspace, but even on my more affordable VPS (togglebox) I didn't have any issues with the speed of loading in videos.
Cheers!