Hi Our site thesharpedge.com seems to be running slowly for customers, pages are taking longer than expected to load and images etc. This has always been like this so we were wondering if there was any way to increase speed. Would we have to upgrade hosting? Our cpanel states.. Disk Space Usage 190.66 Megabytes MySQL Disk Space NA Megabytes Disk space available Unlimited Megabytes Bandwidth (this month) 4751.95 Megabytes Any help appreciated. thanks andy
It loaded smoothly for me... but anyway - here's some suggestions: - reduce quality of banners - try .gif instead of .jpg if possible (for some banners it might be better option) - consider replacing big headline images like "LOGIN" with CSS+text - consider replacing "free delivery" banner with simpler text or smaller pic - cache - consider replacing the header banner, and use CSS if possible - think if you need images on those "top 10" things And last but not least: - consider getting a faster hosting provider
In fact I havent seen a site as quick Pages could be gzipped.. ( not sure how to actually do this..) but you may be doing this already? Otherwise looks fine to me ( connecting from Ireland..)
Shared hosting. I think it may just be some users who find our site slow. I will use those tips though. Thanks
I have read somewhere that the way you have the HTML tables written could make a big difference as well. Maybe you could search on google
The thing with alot of people is that if they host their site on a shared hosting account and move it to a dedicated server, they expect it to increase it's speed dramatically. Yes it will increase it's speed, but it's not just the server that can slow a site down. Other things will also do this. Things like your database query optimization, size of pages, how many images you have per page, size of images, your page caching techniques, etc.
Sometimes web hosts do something called "maximizing the cabinets/servers" and basically what they do is they stick as many servers as they can into 1 cabinet On each server, they stick as many shared hosting accounts as possible So even though you have X amount of bandwidth, the amount of bandwidth you have at ONE time is very limited if they max out the cabinets/servers
I do not have any issues with your site. it is coming normally. The ppl who hv complained may be on a dial up so they may experience slow browsing.
Hey, a friend of mine recommended me this: www.cachefly.com Haven't used them so cannot personally recommend, but my friend said:
Your site is of average speed, there are chances to improve. You are using too many images. You wanna minimize that, use as much css as possible. For example the Free Delivery image is big, you can make it css based text. Also you are using lot of image ads, you know thats not the best thing an e-commerce site can have. If you get rid of these images, your site would speed up some. Also on your code make sure you retrieve only the data/columns you need. Any write operations on database should be done by stored procedures. Hope that helps.