This is driving me nuts!

[ArtsApart]

Hi there, I am having really big problems with the speed of my web site and I cant for the life of me work out what I am doing wrong.........it is soooooo slow! I know that it is normally a big image or something like that that causes the problem but that is not the case here as they are all the correct size.....are there any speedy geniuses out there that might be able to tell me what I have done wrong please.

[matt.bluestagstudio]

As genius as I am I can't do much without a link to your website...

[LOS Design UK]

Loads up fine for me.

You not fishing for some quick traffic are you

In all seriousness, whats you internet connection?

[LOS Design UK]

As genius as I am I can't do much without a link to your website...

It is in his profile Matt, a genius like you should know that

Regards
Daren

[Indizine]

Moved to the web design forum...

I'm presuming its not your internet speed or anything like that?

[Designer-J]

Images can still be big if resized. As in resized in a html editor and not the actual graphic. The only other things it could be (its not your connection) where your website is hosted (abroad) lots of javascript, lots of php requests, large flash files on your pages....whats actually taking ages to load, graphics or content?

[awebapart]

Here is probably the problem:

artsapart.co.uk/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=18_K_49676fea3ec 79.jpg&newxsize=90&newysize=90&fileout =

On your category pages, like the "Wall Sculpture Panels" page, the thumbnail images are displayed by calling a php script called show_image_in_imgtag.php and it is this script that is probably resizing the images on the fly, i.e. every time the thumbnail image is requested.

Since image resizing is processor intensive, that is why the pages take such a long time to load, it has to resize 12 thumbnail images each time (and the larger the original image, the more the shrink required, and the more time it takes).

You need to have a word with your web developers about changing the script so that either the resized images are cached for reuse again, or the images are pre-generated at some other time, admin content publish time rather than user page view time.

This issue may also be compounded by cheap hosting, if you have hundreds of other sites on the same server. If on the fly image resizing isn't the issue, then there may be other issues with a strained server, e.g. waiting for database connections, hitting the database too much, etc.

[ArtsApart]

As genius as I am I can't do much without a link to your website...

Lol bluestage, I don' t think I am allowed to place links in posts but ill give it a go just in case .............no it wont let me so all i can tell you is that if you search for ArtsApart in the google tool bar then you will find me under a UK site...... thanks for the reply btw.

[ArtsApart]

Loads up fine for me.

You not fishing for some quick traffic are you

In all seriousness, whats you internet connection?

lol, los, no I am not fishing for traffic I really do have some big problems with my site and the speed is just the first one I need to work on, but I find it helps if you know what your doing (which I dont!!!!) you must be one of the lucky ones with a nice speedy connection as so many people complain to me about it being slow and in fairness to the site it does seem to be a sporadic problem as sometimes it can be slower than slow, and other times it is just slow! So I know there is something not quite right going on. When you say whats my internet connection I assume you are asking at what speed my broadband runs at....... the answer to that is..... sadly I have no idea, so how would I find out please? Thanks for the reply

[ArtsApart]

Moved to the web design forum...

I'm presuming its not your internet speed or anything like that?

I have no idea what my internet speed is unfortunately .....I am not a techy by any means (does it show?)