Hi Sue
Thanks for your swift reply and apologies for my delay in responding, time difference and weekend got in the way! Thanks for the links we will go through them and make some adjustments. In the meantime, below is an edited version of a template showing the EE code (most html and lots of divs removed), and this is a link to a live page:
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/copyright-and-digital-images/
As you will see, the page itself loads quickly, but if you remove the last segment (so you are left with jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/ ) it takes a long time to resolve. We don’t expect many people to do this and jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/ is not a link we promote or want people to use, so have set up a redirect (shown below) to take them to the stillimages/index page if they do, but it still takes a long time to redirect and I was wondering if perhaps this was part of the problem. Would “enable strict URLs” help? Many thanks.
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....
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<h3>Summary</h3>
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{body}<br />
{if extended}{extended}{/if}<br />
....<br />
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<ul class="bookmarks"><br />
{social_sites}<br />
<li><br />
<a href="http://{social_site_url}" title="Bookmark on: {social_site_name}">_/themes/cp_global_images/lg_social_bookmarks/favicons/{social_site_img_url}_<span>Bookmark on {social_site_name}</span>_</a><br />
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....<br />
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{/if}</p>
<p>{if relatedmovingimages1}</p><h3>Related moving images advice</h3>
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{if relatedmovingimages1}<br />
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{/related_entries}<br />
{if relatedaudio1}<br />
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