Hello,
We have a a few html pages which link directly to urls of third party companies.The other day we had an issue with one of the third party company's website being down.This really slowed the display time of our html pages in our website.Is there a better way to deal with this from a design and a program perspective?
Please advise.
Thanks
Linking to third Party URLs.
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Re: Linking to third Party URLs.
There are a lot of things you can do. If you have anything you can easily host on your own website, I suggest doing so. May I have a link to your website to provide better tips?
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Re: Linking to third Party URLs.
Exactly, you really want to rely on 3rd party as little as possible since you have no control over the performance of their site.
If you must use information you are pulling directly from another party try doing so in an iframe as this will load separate from the rest of the page and will not slow down the rest of your site.
If you must use information you are pulling directly from another party try doing so in an iframe as this will load separate from the rest of the page and will not slow down the rest of your site.
Re: Linking to third Party URLs.
To add on, if you pull results or feeds from other websites and serve them to your visitors, you may want to use a caching system to pull those results and store them as a backup when their websites and servers are down.
Re: Linking to third Party URLs.
Thank you for your suggestions.
Regards
K
Regards
K
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Re: Linking to third Party URLs.
If you're doing this in PHP you can pretty easily write a check to see if the website in question is actually up, before doing anything with it.