Slow Loading Site

[waynemac]

Gidday all,

 

I hope this is the right place to post this topic...

 

For the past week when I enter my url I get to see the the favicon in my browser address bar and then.........h-e-s-i-t-a-t-i-o-n...maybe 10 to 15 seconds then BANG! the the Redirect 301 address pops in the address bar and then whole site loads in a split second.

 

I have 2 Redirect 301`s in place. Am running phpbb embedded in phpwebsite. Running on Server 53.

 

Ive check with other browsers and have had firends check for me on their PCs. Everyone is getting the same delay, so must be website specific.

 

 

Does anyone have any idead about what could be causing this?

 

Wayne

[TCH-Rob]

If you are talking about your to-to-to domain, I got it in 5 seconds from Arizona. May I ask the reason for "2" redirects?

[TCH-Andy]

Hi Wayne,

 

I agree with Robs Question - Why 2 redirects?

 

The other issue is that the start page is nearly 300kb - a little large for a home page in my opinion.

[waynemac]

Thanx Rob and Andy,

 

The reason for 2 redirects is that I run phpwebsite and like to change the main window with different mods...movie guide, restaurant guide etc. The site is 90% text. Maybe I should stop this?

 

I also run a mobile site from the to-to-to TCH host. I have a /mobile folder in the www folder.

 

300k a bit large...maybe I should cut it back in the first instance.

 

Your thoughts?

 

Thanx again for the great feedback.

 

Wayne Rock Sign

[TCH-Rob]

From home it took a full 8 seconds to see anything. Then it took another 8 seconds for me to see the right column. I can only think that it is from all of the other places that the info on the right is comming from, Pik's, weather, calendar, fukuoa live. The page seems from my perspective to rely partly on those items as well. If they are slow then your page slows as well.

[waynemac]

Andy, on the 300k idea...would size make that much difference or maybe the fact that it has to pull from so many different parts of my www folder?

 

Thanx Rob, the Pix and FukuoaLive gif`s are in my Images folder. Only the Weather and ESL Events (center) are external. Hmmmmm...maybe Weather is slowing me down...

 

From the fact that the address bar is complete (favicon etc) and then hangs seems that its is more internal within my www folder at TCH. Maybe I have a hiccup there.

 

I cant see that the 2x Redirect 301 would cause an 8 sec or more delay...should go to to-to-to at TCH then to www folder, check htaccess file then load from Redirect. So maybe its after there...but then the load is complete...there is no miss-coding problems in the final appearance.

 

One of my redirects, the /Mobile one has a "?$" in it...could that be something?

 

Hunting for possibilites arent I?

 

Wayne

 

Here is my htaccess file...

 

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# -FrontPage-

 

PHP_FLAG output_buffering On

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

 

<Limit GET POST>

#The next line modified by DenyIP

order allow,deny

#The next line modified by DenyIP

#deny from all

allow from all

</Limit>

<Limit PUT DELETE>

order deny,allow

deny from all

</Limit>

AuthName www.to-to-to.net

AuthUserFile /home/tototon/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd

AuthGroupFile /home/tototon/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

 

Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.to-to-to.net/phpwebsite/index.p..._position=85:85

 

Redirect 301 http://www.to-to-to.net/mobile/?$ http://www.to-to-to.net/mobile/index.html

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[TCH-Andy]

Hi,

 

Have a look at Web Page Analyzer it will tell you how long your page will typically take to load because of the size etc.

 

remember not everyone is on cable. For thos on even a very fast dial-up (56kb) it would take a minute to load that page.

 

Personally I try to keep the page size down so that it's under 10 seconds for a dialup user. That means a lot of optimisation for your site. but the above link gives you some good clues as to where it needs optimising.

[waynemac]

Andy, I ran the Analyzer and have since dumped some of the graphic content from my website and things have moved out of the cautionary zone and sped up. Thanx for that.

 

Im just wondering why things had decided to slow down only recently when I had had the same content from before the slow down...hmmmm.

 

I still get a warning that the html is too big. Should I set up a new simple front page that connects to the phpwebsite and content behind that?

 

Wayne Rock Sign

[waynemac]

Ummmmmm, I think I may have found the problem...I did a source check on my front page and found that there was a </title> tag but no <title> tag so I added one to my theme.tpl and wallah things have sped up to what they were b4.

 

Now Im wondering why that tag would have been corrupted....hmmmmm.

 

But who cares...all works now.

 

Rob and Andy, thanx for your feedback...both speedy and informative.

 

As the Smilie says " Rock Sign"

 

Wayne

[TCH-Rob]

Glad you got it working. Thumbs Up

[TCH-Don]

Yep much faster Thumbs Up