Hi, I have a site that seems to take a while to load and i don't have a clue why. Any ideas? http://www.sprogspot.org
there could be various reasons that could be reason for the site to be slow. If you are using a database in the backend, that could be causing contentions. if so pl post back. i can suggest various clues. else it could be the host you are using to host your site. bandwidth, poor coding, infinite loops in code, wrong sql hmmm i can list a thousand reasons. You need to go step by step in your code and see which part is actually taking the most time. hope it helps. if you are a newbie, show the codeto an expert.
1. the host could be slow 2. the server could be over loaded due to large numbers of people on site 3. the site could be large?
I don't think the problem is the host! Godaddy is reputable host and they don't mess up like the other host. I will advice you to wait ans see. If the problem continues, then you ca contact them.
I would suggest that you make a simple web page and see how long your simple web page takes to load. Here is a very simple template for you to use. <html><title>MyTestPage</title> <body> <center> <h1>This is an H1 header</h1> <h2> This is an H2 header</h2> <h3> This is an H3 header</h3> <p> This is paragraph text</p> <ul> <li>This is line 1 list</li> <li>This is line 2 list</li> <li>This is line 3 list</li> </ul> <p>An image is below this text, if you add a url to an image between the src quotes<br> <img src=""> </p> <p> A link is below this text<br> <a href="http://www.sprogspot.org/blog/">Blogspot</a> </p> </body> </html>
i'm using godaddy also and feel that it takes some more time to load than other hosting companies I dealt with
In short, you are loading a lot of stuff. There are 169 http requests. The HTML page itself accounts for approximately 16 of the 44 seconds as measured by the IBM Page Detailer loading the page in Firefox. If you really want to look into the details of this I recommend getting the following free tools that I used to look at your page loads: IBM Page Detailer - a firefox load showed that you made 169 separate http requests. This alone will negatively affect the page load times. If you use a content delivery network, or a simple subdomain like images.sprogspot.org then you can double the speed of a lot of it since http 1.1 only allows 2 items to load at a time from the same hostname. YSlow (Firefox Plugin) - this tool details 13 or so important attributes of page loads and scores your page on each one of them. It also describes how to work with each one. I'd do the following: 1. Get the tools mentioned above to use in the following efforts. 2. Scrutinize all objects on the page to see if you need them. Remove those that you don't. 3. Recode the HTML where possible to remove unnecessary code. 4. Get a subdomain like images.sprogspot.org and place some of your images there.
Hello check your website using FireBug extension for firefox. there are lots of requests from Google syndication, twitter,404 Not Found (http://sprogspot.org/blog/wp-content/themes/growingbaby/jquery-1.2.2.pack.js) ,304 Not Modified, and couple of affiliates links that took to much time to load. Hope this helps.