Performance Issue with Large Menus

[wwwGuru]

I have a menu that has over 400 listed items.

When I load a page with this menu, each listed item is load like an image (in MSIE the status bar counts down from 409 to 0 items remaining).

Is there a trick to improving rendering performance?

I'm running on an MS Windows Advanced Server 2003, Oracle Application Server 10g R2 (Apache), intel box with 8 duo core 64-bit processors and 16 Gigs of RAM so I'm pretty sure the server isn't the issue.

All other other web pages load fine.

When I remove the UDM menu, the page loads fine. No arrow images are used in the menus.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks.

[bcarl314]

Can you post an URL to your site? Or to a development server?

Thanks

[wwwGuru]

It's a global corporate intranet site without public access. You would have to be a part of the network or part of the virtual private network to access the site.

Basically, you can test yourself by create a menu of 400 listed items and see for yourself.

[bcarl314]

I'll make a test menu with 500+ items and check it out. This is only on IE right? Any particular version? IE6 only or both IE6 and 7?

[wwwGuru]

Hi bcarl314,

Any news about the performance issue with high number of li?
In MSIE, I see the item count "(409 items remaining)...."
In Firefox, I see a corresponding "Transferring data..."

Thanks.