Could Includes Slow Down My Page Load?

PHP
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LINK-
http://www.msbclc.com/test/index.php

The link above is a site that I am still building and I have used three PHP includes - header, sidebar and a footer. But for whatever reason, the page appears to be hanging up on the sidebar.php include that loads the div #subnav. And it also looks as if the image at the top of that div “gfx_verse.jpg” does not want to load properly.

I am using Safari 4.0.5 and Firefox 3.6 on a Mac running 10.5.8.

I have never really had this problem with any of the static html sites that I normally build and so I was wondering if it could have something to do with the PHP includes since that is the latest elements added. If the PHP is not the problem and if I am in the wrong forum, I apologize.

Thanks in advance!
Todd

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Works just fine for me (FF 3.6 on windows XP).

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I just tried it on two alternate machines and it appears to load nicely, too. They are both running earlier versions of Safari. One is Safari 4.0.4. Could it be a browser issue? Not sure. Again, sorry if I am in the wrong forum.

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If it works on one machine, and not on the other, then I’d say it’s not a server side problem. That means no PHP problem.

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Thanks guido. Checking with the host now…

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Includes shouldn’t affect the host, they process the actions before the page loads and any impact on the resources should be minimal. I would say if you are getting issues it may be something to-do with the way your host handles page requests - may be an issue with the quality of background process management. :slight_smile: