why is my site so slow????
Hi all,
hope someone can help me, my site seems to be very slow loading I have no idea why.
I have thought about putting a preload tag for the pics but as I understand it that would only speed up the pages loading after the home page, what i need is some way of speeding up the initial loading of the homepage.
Help pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
JeevesBond posted this at 20:26 — 6th February 2007.
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Have you got the URL for the site?
Is it always slow, or just today?
gleamservices posted this at 22:52 — 6th February 2007.
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yer sorry
its gleamservices.co.uk
yer generally speaking its always pretty slow...
demonhale posted this at 02:58 — 7th February 2007.
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Taking a look at it and your source it seems you do have a lot of unoptimized images, a lot of uneeded markup and a lot of nested elements including some javascript. In dial-up this site will be very slow, but on broadband on my test machine it took approximately 7 seconds to load, so pretty fast on broadband. And you have some IE specific issues too that sometimes leaves the page hang a second more than the usual when loading... That's what I observed..
gleamservices posted this at 15:43 — 20th February 2007.
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thanks very much........
JeevesBond posted this at 00:25 — 21st February 2007.
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Well the site isn't coded very well for a start (as Demonhale pointed out). That awful text following the cursor just has to be removed, ghastly.
If you get rid of annoying effects like that (including the scrolling marquee text) and clean your code up you should have a much faster site! I checked a few of the image sizes and they seem ok.
Checking your site using a cable connection and it doesn't seem very slow, although I use Opera which is the fastest browser. That wasn't just a shameless plug of my favourite browser; the reason your site is slow may be due to Javascript effects. Opera is very fast/smooth at Javascript effects, whereas something like Firefox or IE (*yuk*) will be slower. Again: try removing the effects and other un-needed cruft and things will go faster.
Sorry if this sounds overly harsh, and if you need help with the specifics, just ask.
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