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[bob53207 Friend bob53207Join date: January 2009Posts: 4Downloads:3Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#138211

My client decided upon purchasing the Mesolite template for it’s modern look. I installed on godaddy and it was incredibly slow. I reinstalled 2 x’s and it was still slow. ‘Thought maybe it had something to do with the server and switched the hosting to siteground. Wanting to be sure I had the full installation correct, I opted to use the “quickstart” version of Mesolite. What I have is another VERY slow installation at http://stpatricksirisht-shirts.com and I am just about ready to pull out my hair.

My Safari browser tells me it is loading 549 items. This is far different than the Mesolite demo site which loads only 4 items. Can anyone tell me how to make this a quicker load? :((

[jwellman Friend jwellmanJoin date: April 2008Posts: 543Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 115 Thanked: 59 times in 21 posts]

#291853

OMG! You are not kidding!!! I finally had to shut it down waiting to view one T-shirt. It took forever for me to load the home page too. I went back and tried to download a hat. I clicked on the image and it opened in a lightbox that sits and spins and spins and spins…. After about four minutes I finally gave up and shut that window down also!

What are properties on the images? (Byte size I mean) Are they all in proportion? I tried to check but obviously I can’t!

[sfpkent Friend sfpkentJoin date: October 2008Posts: 829Downloads:0Uploads:100 Thanks: 310 Thanked: 75 times in 1 posts]

#291856

Hi,

You have to optimize your site correctly, the template itself won’t load slow but the content e.g pictures. I have viewed your website, there are only few colors in your website and I believe that you can reduce the picture file size to very small.

[bob53207 Friend bob53207Join date: January 2009Posts: 4Downloads:3Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#291859

Thanks for taking a look. What I have discovered, after spending the weekend and all of today (off-clock) trying to troubleshoot, I found the setting causing the speed issue. The parameters of the “Product Slide” module, which scrolls the products across the page, were set exactly to the default of the template – the template that I did a “quickstart” install which included all of Joomla files. I spent hours in the forums and tweaking and testing everything but this, because it logically wasn’t supposed to any cause for concern. Finally, I thought “what the hell?” and I tested all of the parameters. It turned out that the “type of product to display” default according to the Mesolite manual ( http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/ja-mesolite-userguide/ ) is “Latest”. When I changed it to “only Specials” the site sped up ~ 500%. Does anyone have an idea as why this parameter change fixed the issue?

[jsliao Friend jsliaoJoin date: April 2008Posts: 817Downloads:0Uploads:12 Thanks: 25 Thanked: 236 times in 210 posts]

#291861

maybe its becos there were too many products in the “latest” category?

[nefar Friend nefarJoin date: December 2007Posts: 434Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 78 Thanked: 42 times in 1 posts]

#292231

Yslow firefox plugin is a great tool for tracking down where improvements can be made for site optimaztion.
Firebug plugin is another must have.

[bennitos Friend bennitosJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1717Downloads:0Uploads:39 Thanks: 39 Thanked: 474 times in 407 posts]

#292236

<em>@bob53207 112655 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks for taking a look. What I have discovered, after spending the weekend and all of today (off-clock) trying to troubleshoot, I found the setting causing the speed issue. The parameters of the “Product Slide” module, which scrolls the products across the page, were set exactly to the default of the template – the template that I did a “quickstart” install which included all of Joomla files. I spent hours in the forums and tweaking and testing everything but this, because it logically wasn’t supposed to any cause for concern. Finally, I thought “what the hell?” and I tested all of the parameters. It turned out that the “type of product to display” default according to the Mesolite manual ( http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/ja-mesolite-userguide/ ) is “Latest”. When I changed it to “only Specials” the site sped up ~ 500%. Does anyone have an idea as why this parameter change fixed the issue?</blockquote>

jsliao is right.

Im guessing that you added all products recently, so what the slider does when you load the site is pre-load ALL pictures of all your products (as they are all recent). This would explain you had to download like 600 pictures when loading site. Your slider was also always the latest one to finish.

[jwellman Friend jwellmanJoin date: April 2008Posts: 543Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 115 Thanked: 59 times in 21 posts]

#292239

AWwwwwwwww…. Nice and quick today! Bravo!

[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

#292398

<em>@bob53207 112655 wrote:</em><blockquote> I spent hours in the forums and tweaking and testing everything but this, because it logically wasn’t supposed to any cause for concern. When I changed it to “only Specials” the site sped up ~ 500%. Does anyone have an idea as why this parameter change fixed the issue?</blockquote>

Aks a VM specialist, he will tell ya what the thing is causing.

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