Hi
Is there any better way to add live radio streaming to the Joomla/PHP website without disturbing the load time for the site. I am experiencing the problem of increased load time for the website after adding the live radio streaming.
Regards
Well it matters if the load time is caused by files that are on the same server as the site or the load time is happened on the viewers end because both the site and the audio files are trying to load at the same time.
If it’s the first problem, you need to serve the live stream audio elsewhere. A good choice is AmazonS3. Quite inexpensive and very fast. If it is the second problem, you need to search for live streaming that has some built in compression. I don’t have any personal experience in that but it must be available.
If you have the live stream on autoload and it’s tying up you visitors browser, look for a live stream player that will allow you a 5 - 10 second wait before started so that the site can get mostly loaded before the stream kicks in.
You will probably get the best bang for your buck getting the streaming server off of your website server, delaying the start on load and trying compression on the live stream.
You could always have it load once the page has loaded.
Then it wont interfere with the actual look and feel of the site.