My Site Is Slow?

[Arta]

its been a while since I've been on the site here.. wow has it changed...

 

Anyhow, I am just wondering if there is something going on with some of the servers.

 

my domain www.artamishia.com has been loading verry slowly the past couple of days. I have DSL at work and cable modem at home.. other pages i visit seem to load quickly, but my site takes some time ..

 

is there something maybe in my settings that I did to make it go that way?

 

sorry, i should post at the help desk, but navigating my way around the new layout, i ended up here first

you guys are great, you'll find me

[KevinW]

Your web site's home page loaded in just about 3-4 seconds, and I am on a DSL line at home.

 

But saying that, take a look at the following numbers:

 

Your blue flower gif image is 38kb in size

Each of your 8 graphical buttons are approx 6kb in size, for a total of 48kb

But, you also have a 2nd version (when you hover over each image), for another 48kb

Then your page counter image is 4kb in size

And youyr background image is another 3kb in size

And your HTML page itself is 7kb in size

 

That's a grand total of 148kb of data that must be downloaded to a visitor's computer/browser. Let's call it an even 150kb

If a visitor is on a dialup 56kbps line (let's call it 5k bytes), that means 30 seconds for your home page to completely download and display.

Even on my DSL line, if I was acheiving a maximum 768kbps (let's call it 70k bytes) would mean a full 2+ seconds to display!

 

Bottom line -- you should look at optimizing you graphics.

 

-kw

[Arta]

k ..

 

i have 2 forums on my site

 

http://writing.artamishia.com/wbforum/

 

http://xto.artamishia.com/xtoforum/

 

and they have been what is giving me the most trouble ...

 

if they get found by browsers at all..