miles1234

Thanks very much!

OK, I see the problem: Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha is quite slow on my server, at least.

If I switch back to Twenty Eleven 1.3, Chrome still flashes, but it is MUCH faster.

Must be all those widgets and things in Suffusion. Of course when I switch to twenty eleven, I also lose the ads since those were mods I made….

But the flashing is within an acceptable speed limit without Suffusion. Too bad.

So can I do anything to get a little less “respect” from Chrome and get it to cache more?

I don’t want you to explain personally, but is there a location that talks about optimizing WP for faster downloads?

For example, I have 6 posts displaying. Would I be better off with just 3? >>> https://artofepilepsy.com

Would I be better off putting google analytics in the footer instead of the header?

OK, I was wrong about boingboing. Thanks.

I appreciate your answer, but it does not explain the difference between Chrome (bad) and FF (good) and IE (great).

FF and IE have ZERO white flash between pages….

Not a WordPress problem? OK, I guess that’s true.

Yes, I understand that this is a browser difference. And Chrome may just be a bad browser (unusual because until recently it has been faster than its competitors).

But I’m asking if there is any known reason why WordPress should behave worse on Chrome than on the others when, for example, this difference is not seen on another site that probably does not use wordpress, like boingboing.

I’d just add that I could live with the Chrome behavior (reluctantly) if I could just get the “flash” color between pages to be something other than white… like, for example the background color.

That’s the behavior I observe here: https://boingboing.net/ (don’t know what CMS they use.) Boingboing flashes equally between pages in Chrome, IE and FF… but at least when the content disappears, and the blank screen appears between pages, the blank screen holds the background color, so it’s not as bright and annoying.