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Site Loading Time?
Hi All,
Just wondering if anyone was experiencing any lag with loading times? I'd really appreciate comments on this as it's been brought to my attention that the site is taking upto 10 seconds to load in some instances, which if widespread will have to be actioned on. Thanks.
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Well i run cable and it only takes me a couple of seconds. But on dial up ive seen it take up to 7 seconds, even ballooning to 9 at times. I dont know if you'll want to change it though.
Heres a helpful fact
For modem users, any webpage that takes 20 seconds or long to load loses %50 of visitors
For modem users, any webpage that takes 10 seconds or longer to load loses %20 of visitors.
Those figures should be accurate. Its been a while since i last checked.
Thanks Snails :-D
I'm away all weekend, but next week I'll do some web log analysis to see exactly how much data is being downloaded with each hit. That should give me a good base for tracking whether it's going to be lag, throughput, or a combination of both causing the problem.
Well, the site loads in under 30 seconds from my parents 33.6kbps dial-up connection in the country, which is a bit higher than I'd hope for. I'll have to wait and see what the log analysis can tell me next week.
According to the little time measurer in Opera, this reply page took about 14 seconds to load on my 50.6k connection. So it's not super-duper quick, but it's definitely not what I would regard as slow.
Thanks for the feedback Red :-)
Even on DSL there seems to be a slight pause between entering the URL, and anything even starting to happen. Not sure where the problem sits yet. All I know is that a fresh install without content of the Xoops CMS I use does not seem to suffer the same delays.
Brash -
Just thought I'd follow up with you on this issue. With Opera 7.2 it took exactly 15 sedonds to load the homepage - it takes significantly longer in NS & IE. When I access my test site, it takes 3 seconds.
I have noticed that on my test site, things did slow down just a hair when I added all my content (all 15 megs of it) but one doesn't even notice.
Nice job on the site & really nice job on the theme.
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help
Hi Jeff,
With load times the way they are I'm going to have to do something sooner rather than later, as this site isn't going to experience any significant growth until I do. I don't have a huge amount of Internet bandwidth as it is (512k/512k SDSL), but even so as the main page has 60k worth of content means load times of 15 seconds or more are only achieving a transfer rate of 4 KB/S or less. This is only around 8% of my links capability, so I'm reasonably confident that a server upgrade will do a lot for reducing load times.
Other than that I'll have to look at utilizing my bandwidth more efficiently, such as using Port80's HTTPZip which you were looking at for me, and reducing the amount of images on my site. At present, of the total of 60k of content of my main page, just shy of 38k of that is in images (GIF & JPEG) with almost half of that coming from my "Site Powered By" block. I've had a look at this block, and I should be able to save bandwidth by loading most of the images from their respective sites instead of my own. This will reduce image content loaded from my site by about 12.5k, bringing total image content back to about 25.5k.
If after all this site load times are still a problem, then I'll seriously have to consider professional hosting. But I'm seriously hoping it does not come to that, as it is straying from what I was hoping to achieve with this site, that being hosting it all myself.
Hi Brash,
First of all congratulations on your site. It looks very nice, especially the backgrounds of the blocktitles and the logo.
It is very strange that your site load time is very slow, even after the main page is loaded the first time. Any other page in that theme that loaded afterwards should be loading faster than the first time. This seems not te be the case.
I traced the address and your server response time is pretty normal: 234 ms from Dulles, US.
Try inactivating a few blocks (especially the site powered by block) and check how much improvement you have. Do the same for the javascripts in your theme (clock and stats).
Most likely your theme is not the big time consumer and this way you can find out. If it is not the theme either it must be your web server.
Good luck!
Martijn
Okay, from the load time of the response page I concluded that it must be your webserver causing the delays, since the response page contains only a small amount of text.
Regards,
Martijn
I did some more testing on delays and it must be a combination of both your connectivity and the site contents. My suggestion would be to do some testing with removing (temporarily of course) a few items from your theme and see if it improves the speed.
Kind regards,
Martijn
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