Re: Request Site Review Please...
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- Robert Pack
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I'd really appreciate a review of my site I'm readying for completion. Iut's not finished but I feel that it needs to load in at least half the time it takes. Switching to the PixelPerfect theme gives me about 25% but at a big aesthetic expense. Perhaps BentoBox would be a happy medium.
Using Octagate site timer (a great tool BTW!) shows that I'm limited mainly by my pictures, javascript, and css.
So here are some questions;
* Is it in fact too slow in your practical experience? (Merav at iJoomla clocked it at around 5-6 seconds however certainly she has a very high speed connection.)
* Is it worthwhile to enable server-side compression with mod_gzip?
* Are there any glaring problems either technically or from the standpoint of design or usability?
Thank you all in advance!
Bob
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Here it is!
www.millionaire-mind-forum.com
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- Mack
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- Dave Goodwin
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I'm in Washington D.C. I clicked on the URL and two minutes later I was still waiting. Some issues there. Check those links that Mack sent. Those might give you a clue where to look. Server-side compression may be your problem, though. People have had sluggish issues with that.
dave - "I'm an individual, just like everyone else."
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- SureLurksalot
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O.K you asked for it....
From a design and usability perspective:
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Usability Issue for me was the drop-in ad box appearing multiple times, kind of a turn-off for me. I don't mind it once but it seemed to appear frequently, as I browsed the many links within the site.
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There appears to maybe a problem with the "Inspiration" Module on the right column displaying all the input quotes at once. (see attached screenshot1)
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Home Page seems somewhat "cluttered" to me, specifically two different bookmark modules, (bookmark us and best hits (maybe rename one of them?) The tag cloud module on left column seems a bit large, and may detract from a users perspective of the site. (not sure about from an SEO standpoint)
(maybe try using a few less modules? experiment a bit.)
4. Site Load Time did seem to have a bit of a lag navigating from the forum to other areas of the site.
All in all to sum it up it appears that you have quite a good start on the site, and actually have some content that may interest your prospects.
Regarding your first question:So here are some questions;
* Is it in fact too slow in your practical experience? (Merav at iJoomla clocked it at around 5-6 seconds however certainly she has a very high speed connection.)
It did not appear to be too slow for me, however others on slower connections may have difficulties.
How much of a factor this will be I guess will be dependent upon your target demographic/audience.
(I am on a pretty decent connection though)
In regards to your question about gzip compression I am not able to help there. Maybe another RT member has some experience in this area?
I hope you find this reply as constructive, and I like I said above it looks like you have a pretty good start on the site.
Cheers! - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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- Robert Pack
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WOW! Thank you all So Much!
I can't tell you how much I appreciate your thoughtful comments. These were great, and I'm going to implement all of the changes you've each recommended!
SureLurksAlot: The Popup ( I recognize it is annoying ) was meant to let people know that I'm not up and running yet. It will go away. I hate those things too! *;o)
I will put you all in an Acknowledgments section!
Bob - Last Edit: 18 years 1 month ago by Robert Pack.
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- Dave Goodwin
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This time the site took 30 seconds to load. I'm using a cable modem that's speedy on other sites.
I'm in the Wash DC area. If you are using a server in a different country, there may be just the lag in getting to me. Others may have no problem. It's an interesting site, though. Reminds me of 'The Secret'. I love the inspiration quotes!
dave - "I'm an individual, just like everyone else."
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- Peter Mee
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Took about 40 seconds to load, I'm in Europe. Spent most of that time looking at a blank screen.
The pop-up caues a vertical scroll bar to appear (and remain) on the page (Firefox 2.0, OSX 10.4.
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Peter
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- Robert Pack
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Thank you Peter and Dave,
I've been trying to find out why it took so long for you both. I believe that I know why. I probably have a couple of bad internal links due to moving the code over from my separate development server (my laptop ) which result in the Account being suspended for a short while. That seems to be the only rationale for order-or-30sec times unless you were on a dial-up modem. You were each waiting for the suspended state to change. (Bluehost.com suspends you if you use too many resources. )
I've gotten some CPU Exceeded messages and Account Suspended messages. I'll sort this out tomorrow.
However I was able to get a significant speed improvement ( around 38% ) by simply removing a couple of modules and mambots and the disabling the loading of the mootools functions ( they were still loading despite having disabled these features.)
Bob
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- Dave Goodwin
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Robert Pack wrote:
Thank you Peter and Dave,
I've been trying to find out why it took so long for you both. I believe that I know why. I probably have a couple of bad internal links due to moving the code over from my separate development server (my laptop ) which result in the Account being suspended for a short while. That seems to be the only rationale for order-or-30sec times unless you were on a dial-up modem. You were each waiting for the suspended state to change. (Bluehost.com suspends you if you use too many resources. )
I've gotten some CPU Exceeded messages and Account Suspended messages. I'll sort this out tomorrow.
However I was able to get a significant speed improvement ( around 38% ) by simply removing a couple of modules and mambots and the disabling the loading of the mootools functions ( they were still loading despite having disabled these features.)
Bob
Robert,
Ah yes! That explains a lot. If you are constantly running at the edge of your alloted memory usage, the host will limit you. It might be that you need to use a different hosting package or even a dedicated server - but that can be a bit price! However, you've got 'millions', so that should be a problem, right
Hope you get that fix. Let us know what you end up doing.
dave - "I'm an individual, just like everyone else."
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