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I have a site that I need to go live soon.  I noticed that the pages that has more content loads extremely slow. They are not real long but they are the only ones that load slow.

Any ideas? 

http://66.147.242.191/~martenco/index.php?

Go to the tributes page under drivers or the terminals page under about us.

This is my first EE site so I’m a little concerned.  Okay, really concerned.

I have a site that I need to go live soon.  I noticed that the pages that has more content loads extremely slow. They are not real long but they are the only ones that load slow.

Any ideas?

http://66.147.242.191/~martenco/index.php?

Go to the tributes page under drivers or the terminals page under about us.

This is my first EE site so I’m a little concerned.  Okay, really concerned.

I visited the site. (Funny, I’m a truck driver). Those two pages do indeed load slower than the other pages on the site; however, when I load them a second time (either by hitting refresh/reload or selecting them from your menu) they load faster.  It is hard to see what is going on since all I get is the page output.

The question would be: what do these two pages do that is unique?

Try enabling admin->system preference->output and debugging preferences->display template debugging.

At the bottom of your page will be an output of what the template engine is doing and benchmark times.  You may be able to see what is causing the delay and then focus on that.

Adding to what Herb says: the whole page is not all that fast, really. Have you looked at these tips to optimize your templates and site?

I’ll try the optimization recommendations and see how that helps.  I’ll let you know soon.  I just think it is strange that those pages are so much slower than the rest. 

Do you think the whole site is slow for EE and the amount of info that is on the pages or just the longer pages?  I really don’t know how to gauge it.

I optimized the database and rebuild it.  Didn’t work.  I played around with the cache settings and turned off the SQL Query Caching and it seems faster…I think.  I thought the Query Caching increased the speed…? 

Seem faster on your end?  Does it seem like a normal speed or still slow?

Thanks for the input.  I’ve designed sites for a good while but this is my first using a CMS. Guess I still have a lot to learn.

Okay, I need a little help here.  I thought the issue was fixed.  Don’t know if this had anything to do with it and I don’t see how it could but when I had the domain point to the IP address the site slowed back down.  Really I think it just was never fixed. 

I did everything suggested but the pages that are long loads really slow.  Our Story is an example.  Everything else loads fine.

Any more ideas?

http://www.marten.com

Okay, I need a little help here.  I thought the issue was fixed.  Don’t know if this had anything to do with it and I don’t see how it could but when I had the domain point to the IP address the site slowed back down.  Really I think it just was never fixed. 

I did everything suggested but the pages that are long loads really slow.  Our Story is an example.  Everything else loads fine.

Any more ideas?

http://www.marten.com

Lance, Our Story loaded up just fine for me.

Try loading jQuery and the jQuery UI locally rather than linking to Google’s Ajax libraries. I’ve found Google’s libraries can be intermittently slow to load, sometimes taking many seconds, and so I always use local copies now.

The other issue I would address is the invalid markup which will cause the browser to render the pages more slowly. Validate your pages to find the errors.

You also have a few missing files, eg favicon.ico

Lance,

Flip on template debugging & show sql queries in Admin -> Output & Debugging Prefs.  Put what you get in text files, zip up and attach to a post here please.

Give us the ‘our story’ and home pages.

-greg

The file is attached with the Our Story page and Home page file info.

Mark,
You mentioned validating the markup, did you see errors on the pages? Is there a tool to help validate the code for EE?

Any info would help.  This thing seems to be creeping.

Hi Lance-
Mark was referring to the actual HTML markup. You can validate your pages, here.

I reviewed your stats, and it looks like the Textile method is taking a long time to parse. Can you take this exact entry (Our Story) and drop it into another custom field for testing? (create a new one for testing, if need be). One that has default HTML formatting, or formatting set to none. Then test that page.

Does this make sense?

I think that fixed it…maybe.  I don’t know why I was using Textile. For the formatting I’ve been using TinyMCE.  I took out the tags for Textile around the custom field markup and then deleted the Textile plugin.  Seems to be running faster.

So was the Textile conflicting with the TinyMCE?

Hope I didn’t mess anything up.  I could still edit the pages and the formatting seems to be fine.

Let me know what you think.

Hi Lance-
If you had textile tags in the template, and you were using TinyMCE, this could definitely have caused some issues. Maybe you originally used textile, and then switched to TinyMCE without removing the old tags?

At any rate, I browsed to the problematic page (Tributes) and it loaded almost instantly for me.

Is there anything else we can help you with on this?