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- darinb
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Slow site--need help

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- My site is slow to load--it will not respond at all, sometimes for 40 seconds or more, and then load all at once. Other times it loads o.k.
  
  Any clues?
  
  It would be great it a few folks could try to load it on their end and see what happens: www.montarafog.com
  
  I talked to my server people and they had me run a traceroute--that was fine. I ran it again just now when the site wasn't loading and it ran fine--but still the site.
  
  Once it starts to load it loads very quickly. I'm not a techie on this stuff and am not sure what the next move should be to diagnose/fix the problem--all ideas are welcome.
  
  --Darin
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- prim
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Re: Slow site--need help

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- This probably has to do with peering so there's not much you can do to speed things up.
- Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
  
  A template is only as good as the content that goes into it - DanG
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- John Hodgkinson
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- Retired, but build and run websites for organisations of school leaders and others - e.g. http://www.icponline.org, http://www.aspa.asn.au, http://www.appa.asn.au
Re: Slow site--need help

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- 5 seconds to start loading and then about 15 seconds more to finish the home page. ???
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Re: Slow site--need help

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- I been analyzing your site and i discover a possible reason about why its getting slow...
  With the Yslow Help ( a nice Firefox tool) i saw that you had a big big image as the showcase background (Rotator) it image was taking almost 5 seconds to load , wow it was big (303 KB) so i download it and compress it for you, so now the image have a the same image quality but is just 19.5 KB, the secret was change it from PNG to JPG, below you will find both images, so that you need to do know is change the reference from PNG to JPG at the code below.
  
  See at css/blue.css
  .bc-blue #showcase { background: #0D4E76 url(../images/blue/showcase-bg.png) 0 0 no-repeat; }
  
  Change to
  .bc-blue #showcase { background: #0D4E76 url(../images/blue/showcase-bg.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat; }
  It change for sure will help you with performance site, if you need more help let me know and i will glad to help you.
  Regards
  Mariela
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- Firefrog
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Re: Slow site--need help

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- could be unrelated but un-publish any RSS feeds you're not using. I had a site going slow and this simple tip from someone got my site flying.
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- darinb
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Re: Slow site--need help

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- Hello all,
  
  I've been taking your advice and tweaking my site--hard to tell if anything is working yet--the site is slow sometimes and fast sometimes--its faster now--we'll see if it lasts...
  
  prim: I looked up "peering" and I generally get it--but other sites on the same host (Dreamhost) are fast and my site was fast until I switched to TerraTribune and started adjusting it--at some point it encountered this slowness problem.
  
  John, that interesting--what I see is nothing and then all at once it loads. Is there ay way to tell what it was doing when it stalled?
  
  Mariela, great find. I'm not sure f that was the root problem but that was a huge image loading every time. I took your advice and replaced it and also installed yslow.
  
  I noticed that my site gets an "F" for performance. Looking at the results it seems everything it complains about is stuff straight from the template. Do other people using TerraTribune get higher grades?
  
  Firefrog, I didn't see any unused RSS feeds but I did discover that I had RSS factory installed and was not using it. I deleted it.
  
  Thanks to all--additional thoughts welcome...
  
  --Darin
- Last Edit: 16 years 7 months ago by darinb.
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- prim
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Re: Slow site--need help

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- I think your site loads fast. The only perfomance issue with the TT template (in general) may be the Vimeo plugin IMHO
- Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
  
  A template is only as good as the content that goes into it - DanG
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Re: Slow site--need help

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- You should open it with Firefox and get the Yslow tool, so you will be able to check the site for yourself.
  About the image, im sure that it was a major issue, 300 KB for a simple image at the front page...for sure will make it slowly
  Regards
  Mariela
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- prim
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Re: Slow site--need help

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- I didn't notice the image size at all since i'm on a 100 Mbit connection it will not make any difference
- Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
  
  A template is only as good as the content that goes into it - DanG
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- darinb
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Re: Slow site--need help

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- O.K., I'm still working on this--still encountering 30 second delays before it loads all t once. Thanks to yslow (and Mariela!) I've found a few more images that were causing delays but there is still a major problem elsewhere.
  
  So the big question: How can I determine if it is the server or something wrong with my Joomla install? I suppose I could get server space with another host and try it there....any easier way?
  
  --Darin
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