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Dear All,

consider this web script: http://research.millisecond.com/persike/simcompare.web

The script loads 400 PNG files (each about 16kb) with a total file size of about 8MB. On all of our computers (office notebooks and private PCs) the script takes several minutes to load, for some users even up to 10 minutes. Starting the script with desktop Inquisit takes one or two seconds at most. Out university network is connected to the Internet over a 10 Gbit connection. Downloading the experiment from the web script backend takes about 20 seconds, including 19 seconds of server-side ZIPping.

Our question would thus be: How can we speed up the web starting process?

Moreover, since many of our subjects assume that something went wrong and force quit the web player, we would emphatically request a progress bar during startup to make the startup process more transparent to the user.

Bye, Malte