I need your help with a slow site, host says that it is the C5, but I don't agree.

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Hi!

I need your help. My site is running on Surftown. The responestime is very long and sometimes it times out. I have two C5 installations on this host and both run slow. The same installation of C5 on another host runs smooth and quickly. The host says that it is my CMS and don't want any part in the problem.

The site is fully cached now, but when you edit the site it is all but fast. Once the server has respondent it is quick, but the response time is making it unbearable.

I have checked the site with a service called pingdome.com and gotten this results. Not relay fair I guess as it only checks the first page and that is fully cached.

Overall Average
5,998 ms
Slowest Average
8,542 ms
Fastest Average
4,194 ms

So my question to you guys are... is it me who has done something wrong or is it the host?

The url to the website ishttp://www.deadlove.se
The host surftown has its servers in Denmark.
Environment is attaced as a txt-file.

Best regards and thanx in advance!
Mr Lindau

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madeforspace replied on at Permalink Reply 1 Attachment
madeforspace
Hi

Just some quick stuff.
Your backstretch image is 101kb can your reduce it?
Pulls from YouTube or Vimeo take time, I see you have a lot of video on the site. Taking almost 4 sec for your Home Page video.
Other external call will take time too, paypal, social etc

One thing I always check is who else is on the server. You currently have 223 other people sharing your IP address, I don't know what time effect this may have for you but if everyone else is using server resource at the same time it may slow things up a bit.

Other things you can do to optimise your site but best to check the forum or I think there are even some how to's.

Hope that helps

Edit, attached the speeds I saw.
MrLindau replied on at Permalink Reply
Hi!

I just reduced the bg-image to 58kb.

I have gone through the how to's an disabled the jQuery on pages that doesn't use them.

I have put the caching on "only when blocks allow it" as another forum thread suggested.

how did you find out how many that shares my IP ? That info was interesting. I have complain before on slow site and that was on a static site with just one flash to load. I guess there is no secret that surftown is a cheep host but I think it would be fast anyway if they don't push the limits on their servers that is.

4s on Vimeo is kind of bad, maybe I could replace the movie with an image and load the video once the user clicks that image. I will try that to stat with.

Thanks so much for the fast reply!

Best regards
Mr L
madeforspace replied on at Permalink Reply
madeforspace
For IP checking I use my-ip-neighbors.com just enter in your domain and it will show you who shares your ip address.
It is not an accurate guide to performance as I have no idea how the server is configured or it's processor or ram but it can be interesting.

The first GET is your biggest problem, wiser heads than me may be able to tell you how to reduce that.
jordanlev replied on at Permalink Reply
jordanlev
I've had a lot of luck with the MISER plugin. It's not in the marketplace but search the forums and you'll find it. Might take some tweaking to work at first but definitely worth the effort (I've seen dramatic improvements in loading speed with it). Free for non-commercial sites, reasonable fee for commercial sites.
MrLindau replied on at Permalink Reply
Hi Jordanlev

That MISER-stuff did the trick .. from 10sec to 3sec on the startpage. They should include this by default into concrete5. I searched for the prices for a commercial version but I didn't find them. Do you know where I can find it?

Thanks a million! =)
Best regards
Mr L
MrLindau replied on at Permalink Reply
Got some errors. Worked most of them out but this I don't get. It is one of the add-on Fjhadd Vimeo Gallery.
The page that contains the vimeo gallery is:
http://www.deadlove.se/se/outtakes...
It is the lightbox that doesn't work. It links directly to the vimeo-page.

I get 1 errors on that page:
Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined

The jQuery is loaded below this particular script part. The jQuery on other parts of the site is still working after some tweeking but this one doesn't. How can I make the block put this script in the right place for MISER to get hold of it? I'v looked thru the MISER options but couldn't find something that looked right. I'm to new to MISER to make an educated guess.

It is the first $ that shoots the error.
The code here is from the add-ons view.php

<!-- Lightbox settings styles -->
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $("a[rel^='fjhadd_vg<?php  echo $bID; ?>']").prettyPhoto({
    default_width: <?php  echo $fjhadd_vg_fullvideo_width?>,
    default_height: <?php  echo $fjhadd_vg_fullvideo_height?>,
    <?php  if($fjhadd_vg_lightbox_theme=="0"): ?>
   theme: 'pp_default'
    <?php  elseif($fjhadd_vg_lightbox_theme=="2"): ?>
   theme: 'facebook'
   <?php  elseif($fjhadd_vg_lightbox_theme=="3"): ?>
   theme: 'dark_rounded'
   <?php  elseif($fjhadd_vg_lightbox_theme=="4"): ?>
   theme: 'light_rounded',
   <?php  elseif($fjhadd_vg_lightbox_theme=="5"): ?>


I put this question here cause all the support threads at Fjhadd are status new, unanswered and old, and I think this is more a MISER-question. Apart from that MISER is working fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Mr L