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Is my site taking too long to load?

Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 6:08 pm
by bokehman
Hi all! Is my site taking too long to load?
Any comments would be much appreciated.
http://costablancatranslations.com

Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 6:55 pm
by benbr
There was 10 second delay - could be my spottyDSL though. Once it got loading it was pretty fast.

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Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 7:39 pm
by hongco
it's fast when i tested it.

Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 7:53 pm
by Skara
pretty slow for me. seemed about a 2-3 second abnormal delay first, then once it started loading it seemed slower than average.

Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 8:34 pm
by Chris Corbyn
:arrow: Moved to discussion

Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 8:44 pm
by Ambush Commander
I can verify that delay. Try caching your front page.

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 2:45 am
by bokehman
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 (EspaƱa) 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.

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 3:50 am
by Chris Corbyn
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.

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 4:04 am
by bokehman
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

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 4:32 am
by bokehman
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?

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 6:55 am
by shiznatix
i just tried it and it seamed to take longer than usual. took it about 3-5 seconds to start loading content

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 6:55 am
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 ;)