My website includes a PowerPoint program. Why is it so slow?

[Pat at IU]

The PowerPoint presentation looks fine, but it takes a really long time to
load it; meanwhile the viewer gets a blank screen, and often assumes it is a
bad link. Is there any way to speed this up? The presentation has 105
slides, and it is essential to the site.

 

[p c]

What is the size of the file?
...PC

 

[Pat at IU]

The file is a monster-21 MB

What is the size of the file?
...PC

 

[Steve Easton]

Too big. Waaaaaaay to big, by a factor of 1000

Why can't each slide be an individual page with a "Next" button??

How many people are going to actually view all 125 "slides??"

You're really wasting bandwidth with that approach.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

That's a cup of coffee, a donut and two ciggies while ya wait.


| Too big. Waaaaaaay to big, by a factor of 1000
|
| Why can't each slide be an individual page with a "Next" button??
|
| How many people are going to actually view all 125 "slides??"
|
| You're really wasting bandwidth with that approach.
|
| --
| Steve Easton
| Microsoft MVP FrontPage
| 95isalive
| This site is best viewed............
| .......................with a computer
|
| | > The file is a monster-21 MB
| >
| > "p c" wrote:
| >
| > > What is the size of the file?
| > > ...PC
| > >
| > > Pat at IU wrote:
| > >
| > > > The PowerPoint presentation looks fine, but it takes a really long
time to
| > > > load it; meanwhile the viewer gets a blank screen, and often assumes
it is a
| > > > bad link. Is there any way to speed this up? The presentation has
105
| > > > slides, and it is essential to the site.
| > >
|
|

 

[Uncle Joe]

Steve's advice is excellent. There's no way I'd sit
still while a 21 MB PowerPoint presentation loads.
And I have high-speed Internet bandwith. Your
presentation would be a hopeless affair for those
with a dial-up connection.

I'd quickly tire of having to sit through 125 slides.
Perhaps analyzing the various slides to better
focus on the core message of the presentation
is in order. Cull the non-essential slides and
focus on the real message. You might be able
to reduce your presentation down to a manageable
15-20 slides.