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[timmiller Friend timmillerJoin date: August 2008Posts: 169Downloads:0Uploads:10 Thanks: 12 Thanked: 3 times in 1 posts]

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I had someone check out my site- it seems to be running very slow…

“You appear to have a number of errors in your header which are having to be handled and at least one incomplete load reference to a “.css” i.e no filename. You need to sort these out as compression and caching isn’t going to fix errors in the files “

One Example:
<link href=”http://www.quiltersdreamtx.com/templates/ja_senecio/css/colors/.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” />

I’m not sure where to start…

Thanks in advance

Tim Miller

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#292446

Can you please post a live URL. This shouldn’t be too difficult to sort out.

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#292450

Sorry,

http://www.quiltersdreamtx.com

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#292456

Well, with my VERY slow internet connection, you site did not seem slow. I looked at your header and did not notice any errors other than the css file mentioned.

I don’t have your template downloaded to see where that link is generated from, but it appears you are using a color called fresh?

If that is the case, I believe that link would then need to say fresh.css, but this would make it a duplicate of an earlier reference to the same link. If it is coded into your index.php file, you could make the change there. But otherwise, I will have to download the template to see where that link is generated from and how to correct that error.

In the meantime, again, your site was not slow by the standards of my VERY slow internet. Actually loaded much faster than some I have looked at lately, including mine!

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#292469

timmiller;113372Sorry,

http://www.quiltersdreamtx.com

running your site through this joomla performance checker will show it fails on eight out of ten things load time of 29 seconds is not good!

http://www.joomlaperformance.com/

page size of 700 kb is the main problem should be about 100 kb ideally

hope this points you in the right direction

Cheers ShannonN

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#292544

<em>@ShannonN 113399 wrote:</em><blockquote>running your site through this joomla performance checker will show it fails on eight out of ten things load time of 29 seconds is not good!
page size of 700 kb is the main problem should be about 100 kb ideally
</blockquote>

<em>@imsleepy 113378 wrote:</em><blockquote>If that is the case, I believe that link would then need to say fresh.css, but this would make it a duplicate of an earlier reference to the same link. If it is coded into your index.php file, you could make the change there. </blockquote>

I did change any .css to fresh.css but it’s the same…

Also as ShannonN mentioned, I did go to joomlaperformance.com and here’s an image of my results. I’m not sure where to begin. I’ve got a client sold on this template, have a finished product…but alas, can’t get there from here…

Arg! Couldn’t get the attachment function to work!
http://quiltersdreamtx.com/results.gif

Thanks for your help.

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#292612

timmiller;113496I did change any .css to fresh.css but it’s the same…

Also as ShannonN mentioned, I did go to joomlaperformance.com and here’s an image of my results. I’m not sure where to begin. I’ve got a client sold on this template, have a finished product…but alas, can’t get there from here…

Arg! Couldn’t get the attachment function to work!
http://quiltersdreamtx.com/results.gif

Thanks for your help.

Hi Tim
The results indicate what areas need attn of course 🙂

lets look at the results, too many images .. giving overall high file size.
cull the amt of images or reduce the size and weight if possible ( load into Photoshop, Fireworks, gimp (free paint package) and manipulate to acceptable limits

CSS files

now I know JA has a lot of diff css and JS files, without going to your site and looking, have you added any stuff you really don’t need that left a css or js(javascript) file behind?

The server is making so many requests it’s just bogging the site down, the images are the easiest to work on as it’s pretty straightforward.

The css and js may need an experienced hand, but if you are only ever going to use 1 memu type and never going to use any feature the template may carry such as font increase/decrease buttons etc you probably can delete the css and js for those inactive code as long as its not a ‘common element to many things’

Hope this has given you the info you need to start trimming the fat off the site, if you are a beginner and don’t have the software to alter the images etc PM me and I’ll see if I can find an hour or so to assist

Looking at the large images in your basics page and dling some, I see they are 175 kb each! need to get them down to 35kb or less start reducing teh fiile size of your big images first then the thumbnails

Best we can do ATM
Cheers ShannonN

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#292619

ShannonN,

Thanks so much for the offer. I’m hip with photoshop and not a beginner. I’ve found out that it’s not image size for sure. For example I put together a page that has all the images from the “patterns” page on the site. It was just a straight html, and obviously I’m missing hover images for the menu items but everything else is there, including the larger size images which do not load until requested for- using slimbox.

http://quiltersdreamtx.com/patterns.html

After loading this page and going back and fourth a couple times, I decided to go into the plug-ins section to disable things one by one. BINGO! I pretty much turned off almost everything unnecessary and it worked great. Then I worked backwards. “System – SEF” slowed things down a tiny bit (as one would expect) but it was later that I found “MMS Blog” that I had installed as a test for the clients to email their own content was the culprit.

Disabling the two plugins “System – MMS Blog Cron” and “Search- MMS Blog Cron” totally fixed the issue. I’m so glad it was NOT something inherent in the template. Thanks JA!

This isn’t a slam on the creators of MMS Blog either. I have no idea how this component works and I bet having to pull data constantly to place content would slow down any system. Also, I really don’t know what version I’ve got installed- it may not be updated.

Thanks again for the assistance all!
__________
btw, I had to ask my 16 year old son what “ATM” meant- a hunch at that. He knew- “At The Moment” Go figure!

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#292620

By the way,

There still were some issues with respect to a lot of things according to joomlaperformance.com-

http://quiltersdreamtx.com/results2.gif

Also there were a lot of validation issues – so I just removed the validation buttons from the index.php page. A lot were syntax issues with tags but there were a good many that were xml parsing errors. Found some also with the seneco template right here…just something to be aware of. I really don’t want to post something that’s not true, which is why I just removed the “this site is valid ” icons/buttons.

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#292621

timmiller;113601ShannonN,

Thanks so much for the offer. I’m hip with photoshop and not a beginner. I’ve found out that it’s not image size for sure. For example I put together a page that has all the images from the “patterns” page on the site. It was just a straight html, and obviously I’m missing hover images for the menu items but everything else is there, including the larger size images which do not load until requested for- using slimbox.

http://quiltersdreamtx.com/patterns.html

After loading this page and going back and fourth a couple times, I decided to go into the plug-ins section to disable things one by one. BINGO! I pretty much turned off almost everything unnecessary and it worked great. Then I worked backwards. “System – SEF” slowed things down a tiny bit (as one would expect) but it was later that I found “MMS Blog” that I had installed as a test for the clients to email their own content was the culprit.

Disabling the two plugins “System – MMS Blog Cron” and “Search- MMS Blog Cron” totally fixed the issue. I’m so glad it was NOT something inherent in the template. Thanks JA!

This isn’t a slam on the creators of MMS Blog either. I have no idea how this component works and I bet having to pull data constantly to place content would slow down any system. Also, I really don’t know what version I’ve got installed- it may not be updated.

Thanks again for the assistance all!
__________
btw, I had to ask my 16 year old son what “ATM” meant- a hunch at that. He knew- “At The Moment” Go figure!

Glad you got it sorted and the new load times are ??? instead of 23 secs? BTW (By The Way) 😀 I still think a 480×640 jpg with a size of 174 kb is way too big but if your happy then we are happy.

Cheers ShannonN

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#292624

ShannonN,

Thanks- that is good overall advice. I did take a few images and crunch them down a bit, and yes they load much faster…

Oh it’s 1.7sec yea!

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#292627

timmiller;113606ShannonN,

Thanks- that is good overall advice. I did take a few images and crunch them down a bit, and yes they load much faster…

Oh it’s 1.7sec yea!

Isn’t that a great result! I’m hoping you can resolve the MMblog or find a better (functioning) replacement
Cheers ShannonN

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