Can anybody tell me why my site is sooo slow ! :(

Guys I can't figure out why my site is sooo slow. I have compared it to other sites with similar size and they all load in half the time.

I don't know if it's the Coding, the Images, the Server speed or what. I don't have alot of knowledge in the tech stuff of the site.

My site is: perfumexpress.com

Any help would be appreciated, if you could see any reasons why the site is soo slow, please let me know and i'l have it fixed.

Thanks alot guys.

 

It may be also your internet connection, particularly if you are using dialup or a dsl connection below 512 kbps

I just loaded your site right now to check the content and it loaded pretty fast

 

hello Charlee. This could be a problem with your web host. Have you checked with them?

 

Charlee22, Here are a few tips to speed your Website.

http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/load-time.shtml

I will find some tools which you can use and post them..

 

I can't give you a ready answer why your site would be slow, as it can have many reasons.

A suggeston though: I see you are running .net. You can check if the web application is running in debug mode. It is a common oversight on .Net websites. Look for the web.config file on your server, if there is a line in it that says debug="true" you should change it to "false".

Running a .net web application in debug mode means it will have to compile the page at every request, which slows down a site a great deal.

 

ok found them. they give some really good tips.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

http://www.1-hit.com/all-in-one/tool.loading-time-checker.htm

 

It wasn't all that slow, considering the ungodly size of the page, 200kB, and the number of image requests, 59, and the table based layout with 116 markup errors.

cheers,

gary

 

what server is your site hosted on also servers with heavy load can slow sites down.

 

In my opinion your site doesn't upload slow - it took 3-5 seconds.
I verified your code with http://validator.w3.org and there are 116 errors.

My question is: these errors can slow down the loading? If "yes", why and how?

Thanks!

 

You need to tell your programmer to disable viewstate on the controls that don't need it. It can really slow a webpage down in .net, click on a few pages then view source, and look at that big block of code under <form name="product" method="post" action="Product.aspx?Flag=&amp;ProductId=1144&amp;CatId=15&amp;Character=A" id="product">
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE"


That is adding a lot of kilobytes, make your images a little smaller and validate the site.

 

Thanks alot guys for all the feed back, I am going to try to look into some of these points and see what I can have changed. I think I will also forward this thread to my programmer and maybe he will understand some of the technical aspects better.

I wonder if there is a way to make the page smaller besides the image optimization. Any ways to shorten HTML code ! !. I also checked with my host and they claim that they did a trace route and that the site is getting stuck at certain point in the route. For example it gets stuck in dallas, TX, and another state and that they dont have control over the route.

It is very strange because how can you solve that problem of the route.

Thanks alot once again, I tey a few things and hopefully something works

 

This is a really strange problem. I never heard similar justification...