Hey guys, I was wondering if you had any tips for increasing the loading speed of my site, EastCoastAirsoft.com. Some pages load pretty slowly, and I feel that conversion could be increased by reducing the loading time. I understand there is no magic program I can upload to fix it, just like there is no SEO file you can inject to get you up to #1 automatically. But if you have some practical suggestions I can carry out, that would be great.
search google and investigate into flash compression and javascript compression, i've used flash compression with success however I don't run much javascript to find out if it compresses well.. but it depends on what you're site is using as to what you'll need
Thanks mate, this thread is also useful for me, need to settle the speed problem of my own E-commerce site.
hey dude, is that real gun? ur the first person ive ever seen selling guns online lol can you confirm is it real? i may buy 1 for my self lol
Installing something like eAccelerator or X-Cache might help you - it helped a lot with my site (php/mysql ecommerce site).
Check this post out on 5 ways to improve website speed for your ecommerce website, THINK it will really help you out: 5 Ways To Improve Your eCommerce Website Speed Load Time
Use firefox and install firebug and then install yslow addons and it will tell you exactly what to do. You can use this site as well. http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ hope that helps, Nigel
There are some good firefox plug ins, and websites that detail good methods of reducing page load time. However there are some quick things you can check right now; Check you have optimised your database, usually through PHP MYadmin Check you are not scaling images, and that they are optimised before you upload them Make sure you are not making too many calls to the database, with a dynamic page Try to compress javascript and CSS to one file each and compress again using gZIP See if you can compress the webpage/website using gZIP Make sure the website does not use an image heavy background Try to move as many assets as you can to something like amazon s3 to reduce the server load.
With empty cache the visitor will have to download 446 KB data, and as I observed there are 4 requested resources which generates 404 server response (slows down the rendering). You should try to: i. Minimize the number of http request, merging javascript and css files. ii. Optimize your images, and build a css sprites. iii. Compressing the resources via gzip. iv. Test your website on a more powerful webserver, I suppose there is too much load on this one. Best wishes, Zoli
Enable caching of images, use gzip compression as previously mentioned, and depending on the amount of traffic, may also want to look into caching some of your sql quieries.