site loading time, very slow. is it the code of the design?

My url is in my sig. I hear a lot of people saying about the loading time of my site. It should normally take 1-2 max. Is it the code of the design that make the site loading slow??

Could anybody help me please?

 

it loads fine me. It was actually quick

 

It wasn't so quick for me. I checked your source code, and you do use a lot of external scripts etc. That could be it. Have you tried to insert some of the external files into your page? That might solve some of your problems.

 

it was ok for me, the last thing to load was the google ads, which is typical.

 

Actually using external files is better than in-lining them. If you use an external file, it will most likely be cached by the browser, which will make subsequent downloads faster; wheras if you were to in-line them, the browser would have to download the code each and every single time.

 

Was reasonable for me - not quick but not slow either (from the UK on a 8mbps connection if that makes any difference)

Personally I usually opt to include ALL javascript into a single "compressed" (i.e. obfuscated by removing white space) .js file, rather than having loads of includes. This allows for the file to be cached still.

In my experience having a lot of even small includes delays loading time, but that is just subjective. Maybe one day I will do a test.

 

It's not subjective, actually. Each separate file is a separate HTTP request that has to be made. While not enough to bog down a page's download time, if you have enough separate files, it can start to make its presence felt.

 

Loaded fine for me. As said above, more javascript files equal more HTTP requests. If possible, try combining external files. You can also try external file gzip compression (i prefer using zlib) and even using a javascript or css code compressor to further decrease file size. I use zlib compression via an htaccess file in the root folder:

php_flag zlib.output_compression On

A few links i like to keep handy:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ - webpage checker
http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/shrinksafe/ - javascript code compression
http://wyome.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=2&aid=362 - javascript / css gzip compression

 

Yeah, but even when there are "only" say 10 includes, that shouldn't add any real noticeable amount of time to a page load on a modern computer and net connection, even on a modest server. Firing off a few HTTP requests is not expensive, especially when pipelining is used.

But expensive or not - it certainly feels slower. Digg is a classic example of this - about 12 includes but it takes a good couple of seconds to load. Maybe its more an artefact of the way firefox handles things more than anything.

 

Large amounts of javascript always slow things down - i'm having a problem of that nature with pligg (opensource "digg-like" cms) at the moment. For instance, loading scriptaculous can hurt performance a lot, but it is possible to cut javascript file download size by well over 50% through compression alone (requires browser compatibility testing), which can make a huge difference.

 

It also depends on how many other sites are on the server, as well as the server's actual connection to the Internet.

If the server is simply being over-whelmed, it could bring things down to a crawl, if not worse (fortunately such occurances are rare).

 

loaded quick in firefox, slow in ie...

am I wrong on this or could it be that it's because the content of the site is inside a table? doesn't the entire table before displaying?

 

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