Is my site taking too long to load?

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Is my site taking too long to load?

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Hi all! Is my site taking too long to load?
Any comments would be much appreciated.
http://costablancatranslations.com
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There was 10 second delay - could be my spottyDSL though. Once it got loading it was pretty fast.

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it's fast when i tested it.
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pretty slow for me. seemed about a 2-3 second abnormal delay first, then once it started loading it seemed slower than average.
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:arrow: Moved to discussion
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Post by Ambush Commander »

I can verify that delay. Try caching your front page.
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Ambush Commander wrote:I can verify that delay. Try caching your front page.
What do you mean? Caching it where? If it were PHP building the page that was slow it would be slow here for me but it's not. In fact there is a miniscule delay (1 second or so) compared to a straight html page but nothing noticeable.

Tell me about caching, please.

Also since you say the delay is only on the first page load couldn't it be the speed of the DNS lookup slowing things down?

The strange thing is I've had a few people from my country (España) check it and they say it's lightning fast.

Also I have VNC control of a machine in London and that certainly didn't have a ten second delay but VNC has a bit of a delay so it's hard to tell exactly.
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Hmmm... maybe you could show some code (there could be something going on in the background which is causing the pause). - failing that, try it on another server and see if it's the server itself.
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I've just realised that I can't cache anything anyway as the pages are dynamic. Even the first page does a check to see what language the viewer requires depending on browser language and a couple of other factors.

I have another site on the same server which is purely html so you could give that a try so we can see if it's the PHP or something else causing the pause.

PHP site:http://costablancatranslations.com
HTML site http://bugster.co.uk
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Ok! I think I have found the cause. php.ini was set to 'output_buffering 0' and 'implicit_flush On'. I changed these to '4096' and 'Off' which seems to have improved performance my end.

How about you?
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i just tried it and it seamed to take longer than usual. took it about 3-5 seconds to start loading content
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Yeah that should help. I'm actually stuck behind an authenticated proxy server at work so it causes a pause for me while it authenticates me and caches the data so I can't really give an answer as to the performance.

I'll try when I get home from work ;)
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