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[seasidefun Friend seasidefunJoin date: February 2012Posts: 36Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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my site is http://www.cheapflightsgatwick.com and i cannot believe how big the template is. at the moment the template is

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1.1MB

and before i even built it, it was 1mb when the template was just installed. this causes slow running time, so i would like to know how to reduce the size of the template. i am shocked that the builders of the template allowed it to become so large. the average size is around 650k

any help in reducing the size and speeding the site up would be great.

[MoonSailor Friend MoonSailorJoin date: November 2011Posts: 1106Downloads:0Uploads:245 Thanks: 89 Thanked: 248 times in 223 posts]

#468454

Hi,

The template size was 1BM because it contained lots of images. I did check again and it’s load 657.6 KB in 11.24s (onload: 11.7s) with home page

I do not think it loads with slow speed.

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[seasidefun Friend seasidefunJoin date: February 2012Posts: 36Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#468477

if you think 11.24s is a good speed then i am very shocked. the site was this size even without the images.

[Arvind Chauhan Moderator Arvind ChauhanJoin date: September 2014Posts: 3835Downloads:74Uploads:92 Thanks: 1240 Thanked: 1334 times in 848 posts]

#468484

Hi Seasidefun,

I checked your site and here are my observations.

http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/672/2522037902.png

You can do the following :

1. Enable css / js optimization in the teline IV template backend. That will compress and join the css / js files. You will see the site speed increases.
2. Disable development mode.. so that t3 cache is effective.
3. Try moving your media items (images especially) to Clouds – Amazon S3 or google storage. You can find extensions to do this job, even we have amazon s3 component. Our this site loads media from google storage.
4. Clean up typo.css file, it comes loaded with various typography styles.. check for the styles you do not use and delete those references. Take backup before you do it.

some general points to consider :

1. Its simple maths, more data (css, js, images, sources).. the heavier the site gets and will take time to load.
2. Teline IV uses modules, plugins to render the complex frontpage and its features for news template and it is heavier than other templates. It will be lighter if we strip the features, but then again the template loses the functions.
3. If you are on shared hosting, the site loading will be slower as bandwidth is shared.

For purpose and features Teline series of templates have been developed, they would be heavier than others, no questions about it.

Regards

Arvind

[seasidefun Friend seasidefunJoin date: February 2012Posts: 36Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#469074

can you explain how i do this

4. Clean up typo.css file, it comes loaded with various typography styles.. check for the styles you do not use and delete those references. Take backup before you do it

also i am on a dedicated server

[seasidefun Friend seasidefunJoin date: February 2012Posts: 36Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#469075

if you look here http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/ij45oToK5/www.cheapflightsgatwick.com

you will see that

index.php?jat3action=gzip&jat3type=cs… http://www.cheapflightsgatwick.com/ 12.2 kB Open
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0
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index.php?jat3action=gzip&jat3type=cs… http://www.cheapflightsgatwick.com/ 9.5 kB Open
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30
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index.php?jat3action=gzip&jat3type=js…

is giving the site a very bad time delay, if you click the link then you will see the yellow which stands for time delay

[Arvind Chauhan Moderator Arvind ChauhanJoin date: September 2014Posts: 3835Downloads:74Uploads:92 Thanks: 1240 Thanked: 1334 times in 848 posts]

#469153

<em>@seasidefun 340978 wrote:</em><blockquote>can you explain how i do this

4. Clean up typo.css file, it comes loaded with various typography styles.. check for the styles you do not use and delete those references. Take backup before you do it
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For example, if you are not using Block Quote typo style in your site.. and have no plans to use it.. you can remove those references from the typo.css file.

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