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My website is very heavy & slow, how can I make it faster ?

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    My website is very heavy & slow, how can I make it faster ?

    Posted 13 years 11 months ago
    • HI,

      I installed all content, features, extensions and plugins to my MODULUS template. But I recently updated and I had uninstalled all the modules that I don't need and my website is still slow and heavy. My images are very lights. How can I improve the speed?

      www.jovenescondanilo.do

      Thank you.
    • Last Edit: 13 years 11 months ago by eliu809.
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  • Re: My website is very heavy & slow, how can I make it faster ?

    Posted 13 years 8 months ago
    • 1. Combine CSS into one file (Use compressor like RT's)
      2. Combine JS into one file (Use compressor like RT's)
      3. Use Amazon Cloud for affordable CDN hosting of images (static files)
      4. Add a long header expiry date for the files. (Look on JED)
      5. Turn on Gzip
      6. Have less components that has external calls.. Not more than 4-5
      7. Put JS and CSS on a cookie free subdomain or other domain.

      You have more methods but this is a few..
      Otherwise also do some core modification will do the job
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    Re: My website is very heavy & slow, how can I make it faster ?

    Posted 13 years 8 months ago
    • all those items are good advice, but one thing that you should always follow, is basically use the minimum amount of stuff you can get away with. This basically covers everything. minimal 3rd party extensions, minimal images, etc. Our demos are almost worst case scenarios where the homepage is just littered with lots of modules and extensions, if that runs well, then a real-world site will run even faster. At least that's our intention.
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    Re: My website is very heavy & slow, how can I make it faster ?

    Posted 13 years 7 months ago
    • Use the CssJsCompress plugin for combining and compressing CSS and Javascript files.

      Use YSlow and PageSpeed addons for Firefox to determine what is causing your site to load slowly. You should aim for a speed rating of 90 or more.

      Strip all unneeded code from your CSS files, only after backing up obviously. Use the Web Page Analyzer at websiteoptimization.com to help find the unneeded CSS code.
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