site loading slow for certain visitors (5 posts)

  • Profile picture of Jake Jake said 1 year ago:

    Apparently some people that visit this site (http://www.cwmetro.com) are experience a long delay (a few seconds) before the site BEGINS to load. I realize some of the images are oversized, but wouldnt that cause a delay AFTER the site starts loading? I havent been able to replicate it, despite viewing on every browser and multiple different computers. And having other people check on other computers.

    Do you notice any significant lag in load time? Please advise. Thanks.

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  • Profile picture of Steve Steve said 1 year ago:

    Try ySlow

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  • Profile picture of Jake Jake said 1 year ago:

    Thanks Steve. That’s a pretty neat tool. Gives a lot of good tips.

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  • Profile picture of Jonathan Goodman Jonathan Goodman said 1 year ago:

    I analyzed your site using webpagetest.org and it’s loading in 5 seconds with the test location at Dulles, VA using IE8 and around 6 seconds from San Jose using Chrome. Still if you wanted you could use Smush.it to compress some of the larger images. It looks like telephone.png and printer-ink-delivery.jpg could be compressed. You can do further browser testing with browsershots.org to see if your site looks different depending on the browser version your users have. Good Luck.

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  • Profile picture of D.K. Smith D.K. Smith said 1 year ago:

    The images Jonathan mentioned are a bit large but compressing them will likely not make much difference. The issue is more the large number of files (images, css, js and flash), rather than the size of any individual one. Converting many of the smaller images into a sprite will definitely help.

    You can try caching with a plugin or if you’re already using one, the cache expiration time needs to be longer (set to expire farther into the future) like 30 days.

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