Guys, Got a massive problem ... and need a solution! So my main site lets say is called mainsite.com On my mainsite.com i have a bunch of external links for example www . external.com/search.php?type=xxx&date=xxx&id=xxx&product=xxx When my visitors click on these links they load fine for all but one problem .... they take 20-30 seconds to load!!!! The reason for this is the target url on external.com is performing a product search. So what im finding is my visitors are leaving before the link loads! Anyone have any solutions i can try? I can not make any changes to external.com as its not my site! i can only add something to mainsite.com ???? Help please .... its bloody killing me!!!!
It takes as long as it takes the external site to do its thing. You can put up a message, just before you go to the external site, saying that it's going to take about 30 seconds to look up the products. Or you can host it all on your site. (But you'd need the database of products and you'd have to write all the code that's on the external site.) But no, there's nothing you can do to speed up the external site unless you owned it and could improve its code.