I installed dolphin 7 in my server.When i am opening the site it is taking almost 1 to 2 minutes of time.Then i opened the site in opera it is showing 150 elements loading and page size as 150 to 250 kbs.Can any one help me to reduse the load time of the site.

any one please give me reply

That sounds like your server to me.  I just tried it with mine and it took about 9 seconds - and I am on a low cost shared server.   Are other applications slow on your server?

Rob

BUT IN OPERA IT IS SHOWING THE PAGE SIZE AS 200KB,HOW TO REDUCE THE PAGE SIZE

Sorry, all I can think is that might be the image reloader.  Have you tried it without that - i.e. with just html?

sure this one works like magic

edit .htaccess you'll see something like this

AddType application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip .air
AddType application/x-shockwave-flash .swf

change to this

AddType application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip .air
AddType application/x-shockwave-flash .swf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php

That helped my site a lot thanks mate for the code

yeahhhhhhhhhhhh my problem has been solved,thank you very much.But i need better load time can you help me in that aspect.

srikanth

as caltrade pointed out, this could be an issue with the server you are on. if you are running a single core 1.2GHZ processor with 256MB Ram, then you are going to see a performance depletion on your site.

what are your servers specs? are you on a shared environment? what is your internet connection? there are many factors that contribute to load time of a site. without knowing all the specifications from your end, there is really no way for anybody to provide you with an answer.

i have a v8 vega, how come i cant run a 7sec quarter mile. same analogy here. well could be because i dont have a transmission, or the rear end has been removed. no way for an answer to be provided because i have not provided all the required information to even make an attempt at a cognizant answer or solution.

Regards,

[delinked]

To do the compression don't you have to add this to the main server config file:

LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

 You got my vote. Thank you very much. My site now go faster.

You can speed up downloads or web page access time with Apache mod_deflate module. The mod_deflate module provides the DEFLATE output filter that allows output from your server to be compressed before being sent to the client over the network.

This decreases the amount of time and data transmitted over the network, resulting in faster web experience or downloads for visitors.

Make sure mod_deflate included with your Apache server (by default it is now installed with all modern distro).


you can read more about it here :)

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/speed-up-apache-20-web-access-or-downloads-with-mod_deflate.html

If you have a VPS or dedicated, you can add this to httpd.conf file to automatically deflate everything but pictures for the outstream:

<Location />
# Insert filter
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
# BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48
# the above regex won't work. You can use the following
# workaround to get the desired effect:
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \
\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary

# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</Location>

Great stuff guys. Keep the D7 optimisation and the facts and explanations about it coming. I have found it very useful so far. Thx.

I do not worked me, I contacted my provider hosting (joombyte) and this was what I replied:

Dear nandonet,

We have verified your query. We have limitations in adding mod_deflate module to Apache as it will result in high CPU and memory usage which we cannot allow in the shared environment.

Regards,
Abino.
JoomByte.com
World Class CMS Hosting

Well it is not the only way you can optimize so not the end of the world.

are there other ways to optimize?

Okay, I figured it out and I have some helpful information.

I had to upgrade to Apache2 in order to get mod_delfate installed.  After that, I used the Optimize Website in CPanel and just added the file extensions as: text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript application/xml application/x-httpd-php

I used the following to test my sites: http://www.whatsmyip.org/http_compression/

Finally, even after I verified my site is compressed, my site took 17sec to load in the main page!  I found that the Public Photos block was causing the issue.  When removed, my homepage loads in 3 sec!  Not sure why.. any ideas?  Perhaps our Boonex friends can speed that up a bit.  It would be nice to add that block back in as the pics are nice but not worth the 14 second load time increase.

According to whatsmyip/http_compression, my homepage Size with Public Photos block is 292KB uncompressed.  Without Public Photos block 264KB uncompressed.  So the 28KB cannot be causing the 14 extra seconds, must be something on the Dolphin side causing the delay.

RE:

I'm currently bus with a site and all of a sudden the site takes well over 2 min to load anything with the "photo" block on it. It was working fine and it suddenly started running super super crud.

I wish I knew what was wrong, the site that I'm busy with revolves around pictures and photos.

If your web site focuses primarily on photos, then you will of course see more load as the number of photos increase. I suggest you download the YSlow extension for Firefox and Firebug, as it will provide you with a complete diagnostic of your web site, and ways to increase the load time. You may also want to optimize your database, which can be done from phpMyAdmin.

But the thing is everything was perfectly fine. My host recently upgraded from Apache 1.13 to Apache 2.2. Do you think that could have influence anything to bring about this performance?

Even if I load one individual "photo" thumbnail with the direct URL http://www.testsite.com/m/photos/get_image/browse/blahblah.jpg (a generated thumbnail) the image is 3.5kb and takes around a minute to load and I doubt its my internet connection because everything else runs perfect.

Found this in the forum and it worked like a charm for me.  Pages are loading lightning speeds.  I also turned off the flash banner.  Here's what I did.  Addid this to the bottom of the .htcaccess under the Add section.  Did I mention how much I adore the people who help fix the problems here?  I do!  Thanks guys and gals. xxx

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Insert filters
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml

# Drop problematic browsers
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>

Hey, that's my .htaccess code!

Woohoo.

I finally decided to add this. Big difference.

Now i got to compile me a new version of ffmpeg.

Why, may I ask, do you need to compile a new version of ffmpeg?

Most likely because of that new h264 feature BoonEx supposedly added/faked.

I best get compiling myself then if that is the case.

Yea, it was a bit off topic, but yea, it to take advantage to the new h264 feature.

So far, no one's had success with getting it to work. If you succeed, let us know.

The sound younow hear is that of me not compiling ffmpeg

 Magnusoft,

Ahhhh...some mouse in your server

Thanks,

But I've moved over to buddypress. Cleaner code, easier to find what I want in the code, modding is a breeze.

Fool! You lack a mammal for a mascot! And around fifty-seven other features.

If it has an Nile Crocadile or a Great White Shark as a mascot then count me in.

Have you ever heard of ProWider Shark Poseidon Trident Shark? It's the latest software being developed by BoonEx since their inception, and it keeps evolving into different forms whenever they feel the itch. Why, just last month, it was a creative publishing suit for authors. Then it became an enterprise dating script last week, and now it's a new framework for BoonEx products.

Yeah, I've heard/read about shark. The latest software being developed by BoonEx can be called Giant Angry Dinosaur for all I'm concerned. I really do appreciate the amount of effort that Boonex has put behind Dolphin and the rest of their software. The fact still remains Dolphin needs to be cleaned up, A LOT. Its a fantastic piece of machinery as a whole. But then you look how the entire machine operates inside and you realise there loads of loose nuts and bolts.

Of course Dolphin 7 is packed full of features that Buddypress doesn't have. Dolphin will take the trophy home for that. But then look at the following cons about dolphin:

• Outdated use of php, eg. still using <?
• Creating a W3C compliant site is extremely difficult and time consuming
  
• Over use of tables all over the place

I'm sure there are a few more points to mention but that's just off the top of my head. So why did I move over to buddypress?

Buddypress basically covers all 3 points which I mentioned above. Dolphin will eventually get cleaned up and all but thats only eventually. I don't have time, I have money but not time. Its easy enough to hire a developer and say clean up this dirty tramp's code for $$$. Yet again that will take time, especially with the thousands of lines of code in Dolphin.

I worked countless amounts of hours on getting my Dolphin site's validation errors down. It started at +-400 errors, I got it down to just under 70 errors. Obviously that meant modifying the core code. I backed up my site and database on a local drive, ran the upgrade from Dolphin 7.0 to 7.0.1. What was my result? A fatal bloody error. Site down. That created enough motivation for me to change to Dolphin's nemisis, Buddypress. It was as simple as running an SQL query to transfer data from from the Dolphin database to the Buddypress database.

So instead of hiring a developer to clean up Dolphin, I've hired a developer to team up with me to create the features that Dolphin has but in Buddypress. And perhaps even better than what Dolphin could offer.

Dolphin, you'll always have a place in my heart. I've fallen for someone else, we can still be friends but it won't go further than that.

Er, I was talking to cbassthefish, not you. Still, I enjoyed the read (even though you've been misguided, like anything can be better than what BoonEx develops, ha!).

Even when I get an email notification it addresses me as the wrong person:

"Hello Anomaly,

New reply in How to reduce load time of dolphin 7 forum topic:
Author: Magnussoft
Reply text:"

I think that briefly proves my point, I am MrFenix. Anomaly is another user on Unity.

Ah, it's a new name this time! I didn't know they alternated.

When I add the code I get 500 Internal Server Errror

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

I tryed both:

1)

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Insert filters
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml

# Drop problematic browsers
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>

and just add this:

2)

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml

But in both cases all my photos disappear and photo links don't work I get error 404 this page doesn't exsist , any ideas??

i get a error with the code any other way to reduce the time to load?

VERY NICE!! My site is definitely a bit faster.

THANKS!!!!!! :)

yup

Veri nice! thank you very much x

Hmmm. How come I never saw this before? Added it to my already heavily crapped up .htaccess and it did make a substantial increase in page load times....

@SkyForum when it comes to site performance cache is your best friend,  this is the one im using on my site give it a try

AddType application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip .air
AddType application/x-shockwave-flash .swf

# BEGIN Compress text files
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    # Insert filter
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
    <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
        # Netscape 4.x has some problems...
        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
        # Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
        # MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
        BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
        # Don't compress images/archives/music/video/etc
        SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
        SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip dont-vary
        SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:avi|mov|mp3|mp4|rm|flv|swf|mp?g)$ no-gzip dont-vary
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>
# END Compress text files
 
# BEGIN Expire headers
<ifModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 2419200 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 604800 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 604800 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 604800 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 604800 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 10800 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 5 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 5 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 5 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 5 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml "access plus 5 seconds"
</ifModule>
# END Expire headers

# BEGIN Cache-Control Headers
# 4 WEEK
<FilesMatch "\.(flv|ico|pdf|avi|mov|ppt|doc|mp3|wmv|wav)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2419200, public"
</FilesMatch>
 
# 1 WEEK
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>
 
# 3 HOUR
<FilesMatch "\.(txt|xml|css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=10800"
</FilesMatch>
 
# NEVER CACHE
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|php|js|cgi|pl)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, private, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>
# END Cache-Control Headers

# BEGIN Turn ETags Off
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
  Header unset ETag
</ifModule>
FileETag None
# END Turn ETags Off


or have a look here
http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/HostingServerSetupRecommendations

http://gtmetrix.com/ run a test before and after to see if it helps


i got
Page Speed Grade:(92%)   YSlow Grade (86%)
Page load time: 2.75s
Total page size: 246KB
Total number of requests: 74 (i have the Shoutbox with smiles on the homepage that's why it has many requests )

one that made a big difference on my site is Parallelizing downloads across hostnames (time consuming)

Prolaznik:

I see your no longer using the AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE Lines.

Is that because you've started using apache's mod_deflate.c?

I'm currently using mod_deflate.c as well, so is it redundant to also use AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE?

Thanks..

To advise anyone who had no luck with deflate commands, this is what I got from my hosting company: "Please note that your server runs Apache 1.3 where the compression module is called mod_gzip."

So. Anyone knows how to get proper syntax for mod_gzip into .htaccess?