Why does my site take too long to load ?

Discussion in 'Programming' started by EliasJabb, Jan 4, 2011.

  1. #1
    My website imgspin . com takes long to load i dont know why its really annoying its stopping people coming to my site since no one likes to wait. If anyone knows why contact me on pm, if work is required ill be willing to pay.
     
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    EliasJabb, Jan 4, 2011 IP
  2. elicitservers

    elicitservers Peon

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    Who is your hosting service provider? Its taking a while to load from here as well, sometimes up to 10+ seconds. Has the site always been like this? Have you tested it on another host to see if it runs any quicker?
     
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  3. EliasJabb

    EliasJabb Well-Known Member

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    Yea hostgator it runs on so it should be fast, the site has always been like this since the start when it was done coded and put on. Its annoying i feel im losing visitors that cant be bothered to wait so cancel i got advertisements up on other site. Havent tryed on another host.
     
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  4. Cozmic

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    #4
    What sort of processing does your software do? I suggest you install a local server to your computer to see how it loads there.
     
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  5. elicitservers

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    Its loading fast sometimes, and other times very slowly. That typically tells me it's not scripting issue because if it was, it would probably be slow all the time, but makes me lean towards a hosting provider issue. Do you have another hosting account you can test with?

    This would be a good troubleshooting step as well :)
     
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  6. Ardra

    Ardra Peon

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    #6
    May be your site too load effects.
     
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    its taking too much time to load , there seems some problem with your hosting provider.
     
    loog12us, Jan 15, 2011 IP
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    rainborick Well-Known Member

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    #8
    It can be hard to tell exactly why a page loads slowly sometimes, but not always. Many people complain that Google's AdSense and Analytics code can often be slow to load, but you really can't do anything about that. You can take some other steps. One simple thing you can do is to use a subdomain to host the images that are commonly used on all of your pages. Browsers are limited to the number of HTTP connections per hostname, and as the number of images on a page coming from the same hostname increases, the more that becomes a bottleneck in terms of page loading time. You could also combine your local CSS and JavaScript files into single files. These steps won't necessarily cure all of your speed problems, but they're simple fixes that can help quite a bit. Good luck!
     
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    #9
    The code looks tableless. My only guess would be some server-side code (such as PHP) or your web host may simply be of poor quality.

    OR your web hosts servers may be located very far away from where you are.
     
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    #10
    Optimize your images and query of your page and fetching result will take lesser time for you
     
    websiteguru, Jan 15, 2011 IP
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    it loads pretty fast for me, maybe it depends on your and your visitors location. Also try to remove your java scripts. ony by one to see what happens, maybe that's the problem.
     
    asdirc, Jan 16, 2011 IP
  12. Riboflavin

    Riboflavin Well-Known Member

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    I bet your problem is bandwidth, hostgator probably limits you to a certain amount of mb/s and at peak times you might be capping it out causing even the simple pages to load slowly.
     
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  13. Ardra

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    just reduce the external thing from the site i think it will make the page faster to load
     
    Ardra, Jan 18, 2011 IP
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    #14
    Just quickly checked your page source - and it seems the whole page is set up with scripts.
    You have 3 different css library files.
    3 Java script libraries with over-rides
    Lots of input boxes and things to click
    Then of course maybe some large image files?

    Seems completely OTT for what's on the page.
    My suggestion would be to dramatically simplify the page - and give visitors just 2 options = do the ONE thing you want them to do first, or leave
    Then give them another option if they decided to do what you want etc
     
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    If not the internet connection issue perhaps there is a problem on the file size of the images on your site most probably you have great file size or your site more on flash animations and java scripts.
     
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    Check your image sizes. Ads can also slow down your website loading speed.

    Also check your competitor sites image sizes and theirs average loading time.
     
    dark_horse, Jan 18, 2011 IP
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    #17
    Hello......

    To reduce the loading time of your website, If you your landing page contain any large image content or flash content then re size it or remove it............
     
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  18. nuare

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    #18
    First profile your site with xdebug . org and find the slow places of your code.
    Reduce the number of media content for you site to load (for example use CSS and load one picture instead of many many small pictures)
    Enable content compression on your server.
     
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    Also it tooks up to 5 second to get /images/form_bg.jpg from Russia
    I do know why, but you should ask your hoster.
    You can profile the slow places with FireBug Firefox addon
     
    nuare, Jan 20, 2011 IP
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    #20
    your page speed score 79/100!
    so, I'm totally agree with @Riboflavin...you have to increase your bandwidth.
     
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