Drupal always slow?

Is Drupal slow on anyone else's sites? Every time I load my site, it takes very long. And I have a fast cable connection.

Wondering if its because of the CMS or something else.

Also, does anyone have any alternatives that are similar to drupal? (not wp as thats not similar)


thx

 

Did you turn on page, block, css and js compression? php gzip?

 

Can u please provide your Drupal Url?
we can have a look, if we get same problem as yours.

 

www.solidsnakedesigns.com

Thats the website, thanks.

It might be because we have a lot of resources, but it still shouldn't be that slow.

@fortify: I believe everything is compressed.

Thx

 

depends on ur hosting company also

 

Site isn't that slow and what did you compress? You should also deactivate all modules that aren't being used

 

I don't use Drupal really but I always thought it was meant to be pretty light, ie fairly fast. There is a bit of the pause before your site loads, it could be; a slow server (yours); a script you have running that needs to load first, try turning that adserve thing off and see if it makes a difference; or perhaps some offsite thing that's being called and waiting to load up, stuff like adsense/adwords/analytics code, voting buttons hosted on other sites and that sort of thing.

 

My drupal sites are running so slowly for some reason. Might just be my host though

 

probably the problem is with the host, 2 of my site is using drupal v6 and the loading was normal like any ordinary blog script. Also try caching function that might speed the loading of your site.

 

I agree, might be your host. Also, have you enabled throttling?

I have never had speed issues with drupal

 

Yeah it was my host. No problems with Drupal

 

There is a definite lag when the site first loads..
can you tell us a little more about your site/host?

• Is this a dedicated server, or shared?
• How much traffic do you get /day?
• How many total members and how many are usually logged-in at any given time

 

Site is slow on a 1mbps. i think u need to tweak it a bit

 

Yeah it seems to load pretty slow right here. I always thought drupal is a better CMS compare to Joomla. Look like I might be wrong.

I'm using joomla for some of my websites.

 

It seems like lot of queries of sql queries are being called.

 

I am going to guess that you are on a shared-host that is using a separate, shared SQL server and the delay is from the web-server initiating a connection to the SQL server, or the SQL server is overloaded.. of course, it could be a bazillion other things - answer my questions (a few posts above) - the suspense is killing me.

 

Its a shared host and I only get 50 users per day. It was just a hosting problem, should be gone now

 

drupal is a mysql monster

 

Drupal 4.7 was an ugly monster..
Drupal 5.1 is a powerful beast.

 

What about 6.x?