Header Image Loading After Page Loads

Question

I have made some modifications to a website I am working on and now, when I load the homepage, the header image seems to load after the rest of the page leaving a white space and then the image loads it pushes the rest of the page down to where it should be. This site is created from scratch with HTML, CSS and JS. The website is https://www.visionwebdesign.ca so you can have a look. Once the webpage is in the browser cache, it loads fine.

The header is actually a part of a carousel of images. Here is the code I am working with:

Vision Web Design ...

I have tried reducing my images to a smaller size but no luck there. Looking for any help available.

J.P.

Answer 1

This is probably not the answer you are looking for, but looking at the HTML page code it appears you are just loading in the images quite normally using IMG tags, no script code in use there, so any delay may simply be the time it takes for the images to download from the server to the browser. I saw just a bit of a delay in loading the header image (tried in both Firefox and in Chrome) but I'm on a 300Mbps down internet connection so everything is fairly quick.

Image size may be one thing to look at. Alternately setting the content DIV to display:none until after the first image has loaded then switching it using Javascript. I found this example here at Stack Overflow:

Answer 2

A method of solving this problem would involve hiding the full body for the 2 seconds or however long it takes to load the body. We can do this using Javascript:

var timeouttimer = setTimeout(showbody, 2000);
var everything = document.getElementById("allcontent");
function showbody {
everything.style.display = "block";
}

And then in the HTML add the following div surrounding all the content of your webpage:

<div id="allcontent" style="display: none;">