Site Slow to Load

I notice that my Dolphin 7 site is a bit slow to load.  And no it's not my server.

Anybody have any suggestions on how to make the index page load faster.  I've already got rid of almost everything from my home page.

Change the default images in the rotating banner, they are HUGE! You need to reduce the file size footprint of the page itself.

Agreed. The flash image thingy on the main page is the big slow down.

It's a nightmare on Linux under firefox. Opera handles it better in linux, but still slow.

You have no idea... Running HTTrack in another tab, and I'm afraid of another freezing-to-crashing incident like the last few times due to high resource usage.

What's worse is when people add an even larger Flash (yes, Adobe Flash) banner, which takes up even more resources.

Here's a tip to get your site loading much faster. By default Dolphin is not set to compress when sending out.  The home page itself is over 180k large.  So  you need to use the deflate in your htaccess to dramatically speed up the entire site.  I use this in my htaccess.  Place it at the bottom of the list below AddType application/x-shockwave-flash .swf

# gzip text content
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(js|css)$">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

This will nicely compress your site files when sending over the intertubes and thus a faster download.  For some reason not all of dolphins css will compress but this gets you about 88.5% reduction of your home page size.  The other issues are picture size, replace some of the pictures iwth better optimized ones.  By default, boonex uses .jpg and I don't like that, I like png personally.

Oh I want to add this,

This tool checks your website compression:   http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/compression.asp

Go check your site before and after compression.

Here are my stats, went from 161,000! bites to 18,000

edit if you found this useful please tick the + sign.

mauricecano I tried that, and when I refreshed my site, I got a 500 Internal Service Error.

You might not have it installed or enabled on your server.

Follow these instructions here to install and enabled for your server

http://www.howtoforge.com/apache2_mod_deflate

Installing mod_deflate would require you have a dedicated or VPS Server.

So this information might not apply for most people using shared hosting.

I don't think my host has it either.

Gotcha, I didn't realize it was something I needed to have installed first...lol

brb :-)

Damn, I don't have Apache2, only up to Apache 1.3.  Host says there is an equivalent mod for 1.3, so I may try that...

You can always use the gzip variant, it isn't as fast but it will still help your site.  I don't have the gzip commands nad you need to make sure a mod is installed, I can get that information later tonight.

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/topic/Optimal-server-setting-for-D7-list-.htm

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#topic/How-to-reduce-load-time-of-dolphin-7.htm

works great on shared host :)

Man... that helped! Thanks for that valuable input

and that thanks goes to who ?... so many inputs here lol :)

It was pointed to mauricecano :)

Is this recommended for D6 also?

It should work just fine. Personally, I use this:

<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>

I use this for all of my web sites.

wait.. i'm a bit confused.  What's wrong with using Optimize Website in Cpanel?  Is that any good?  :/

I was talking about this with a friend and he suggest me to use relative directions, not complete specially in index.php that use to be the most weight.

Now all links in source code are: http://www.yoursite.com/m/spy  hundreds of them

He say that if links were only /m/spy will help to load faster, save many bytes, It is also possible that for many users go faster for another reason: those who have disabled the DNS cache whenever they find 1 http://www.yoursite.com  will be making a call to the DNS server to translate the domain to the IP xxx.xx.xxx.xx

Is possible to change url??

Thank you in advance.

mauricecano YOU ROCK...

I Freakin spent alot of $$$ to setup eAccelerator and Cache this & that rubbish, spent days on compiling & recompiling but no difference.

And i just added this in my .htaccess and i don't even see my site loading, site and all other pages loads in a blink of an eye.

Awesome Post Man, Thanks for sharing such a Valuable Trick.

Can someone do this for me? I would rather pay someone to do it then figure it out myself? Anyone interested? Please post price.

M

If you like, you can contact me and I will handle everything, free of charge.

Edit: Nevermind, you're using a fake profile modification. I can't help you.

hahahah way to go man :)

Heh, what can I say? I'm a man of my word.

LOL. I figured it out. Thanks. I shouldn't of been lazy in the first place.

WOW!!!!

I owe you a steak dinner!

Summary: URL:    http://towjobs.com/ Scope of analysis: Real-time data -- target file compression reports only (no supporting files).
Web server type: Apache Compression status:  Compressed (gzip) File Size Comparison (in bytes): Original size: 227959 bytes   Compressed size: 26892 bytes   Savings in bytes: 201067 bytes   Percentage saved by compression: 89.0% Transfer speed improvement: 8.4 X Speed Comparison by Connection Type (in seconds):   Dial-up Modem 56.0 Kbps 31.802 s   3.752 s       ISDN 128.0 Kbps 13.914 s   1.641 s       DSL/Cable Modem 256.0 Kbps 6.957 s   0.821 s       DSL/Cable Modem 1.0 Mbps 1.739 s   0.205 s       T1 1.5 Mbps 1.159 s   0.137 s
	Uncompressed     Compressed

Does this have to be applied to every .htaccess file or just in the root?

Just add to root, works great for me.

I got much better figures from using gzip.

Only 87% compression with a speed increase of 7.0x for using mod_deflate

But 90% compression with a speed increase of 9.1x for enabling gzip.

To enable it simply add the following line to the top of your index.php file

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

Of course your server has to support it for it to work.

/DM

mauricecano - That was AWESOME!!! What an amazing difference!  You sir, are brilliant!

wow thanks for this, most of my sites are faster then before...  great job.

Its really INCREDIBLE!!!

We use hosting from Arvixe, and really have seen that will grew up - 3-4 times!

And when in Admin Settings:

1. Enable cache for HTML files - OFF
2. Enable cache for images (do not work for IE7) - OFF
3. Enable cache for CSS files - OFF
4. Enable cache for JS files - OFF

then speed is much faster ... :)))

No! Not right.

ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); - must be in /inc/header.inc.php in top, but not in index.php

Test was approved.

Wow, this definitely did the trick with my website! I recommend giving this a try it will load your web pages a lot faster. 

This is my difference!

Summary: URL:    http://www.blockboyradio.com Scope of analysis: Real-time data -- target file compression reports only (no supporting files).
Web server type:  Apache Compression status:  Compressed (gzip) File Size Comparison (in bytes): Original size: 95043 bytes   Compressed size: 13288 bytes   Savings in bytes: 81755 bytes   Percentage saved by compression: 87.0% Transfer speed improvement: 7.1 X Speed Comparison by Connection Type (in seconds):   Dial-up Modem 56.0 Kbps 13.259 s   1.854 s       ISDN 128.0 Kbps 5.801 s   0.811 s       DSL/Cable Modem 256.0 Kbps 2.9 s   0.406 s       DSL/Cable Modem 1.0 Mbps 0.725 s   0.101 s       T1 1.5 Mbps 0.483 s   0.068 s
	Uncompressed     Compressed

your site is throwing 403 error for me..

newton,

i am still developing my website so i have it blocked. i unblocked it when i ran the test and then when i was finished i blocked it again. 

this made my website load so much faster though. 

thanks