Site is Loading Slowly

Is it just my site or is it normal for my site to run as slow as it does?  Navigating quickly isn't nor has ever been an option.  Can you check it out and let me know what I can do to help with this?

www.operationenduringfitness.com

Thanks in advance

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Quote · 2 Jan 2014

Try enabling the cache and compression options under Administration -> Tools -> Cache -> Settings (assuming that path's also there in Dolphi 7.0). Right now, it looks like nothing is cached, which can increase the load time.

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Quote · 2 Jan 2014

Just checked your site, currently I'm in Europe and everything works pretty fast.

It could be just your internet connection, I suppose.

Enabling cache is recommended only after your site is finished and live.

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Quote · 2 Jan 2014

Looking at your index, your loading too much information.

Page load time: 27.90s

Total page size: 2.54MB

Total number of requests: 178

As a test, remove the "members block, then blogs" and so on; as you do you will see an increase in page load times.

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Quote · 2 Jan 2014

Think about it, your index page size in bytes is equal to a 3 minute mp3 almost..

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Quote · 2 Jan 2014

 

Think about it, your index page size in bytes is equal to a 3 minute mp3 almost..

 Haha, you reminded me about a couple Dolphin sites I was working on, they had load time about 1,5 minutes and had 10+ Mb home page with all possible installed modules blocks, that was a disaster! :)

Oefitness, what country/provider your site is living?

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Quote · 2 Jan 2014

Install profiler module and take a look at whats slowing down.

so much to do....
Quote · 2 Jan 2014

Ok, here's my report, just for curiosity...

1. It's just a lot of non-optimized senseless mess there...  

208 requests ❘ 453 KB transferred ❘ 15.89 s (load: 10.25 s, DOMContentLoaded: 8.17 s)

mess

The most of this mess is coming from your current template, which is designed really badly.

2. 256 lines of code just to generate one block is way too much.

577 kb just for background picture http://www.operationenduringfitness.com/bg.jpg

290 kb just for http://www.operationenduringfitness.com/images/arms_and_shoulders.jpg

Banners on home page are too heavy.

3. Small icons/images are not combined into sprites

4. head_bg.png is missing, 3 errors in 1 js file, 3 errors in 2 css files; total 3412 lines of html code on home page. 

 

My conclusion: now it's good to burn offline version on DVD and give copies to your users. Not for online usage. Must be 10 times lighter.

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Quote · 2 Jan 2014

LOL @ that nesting

Your content needs serious optimization.

http://fpt.pingdom.com/#!/eQujfe/http://www.operationenduringfitness.com

First response from server took 6.43 secs which is way too HIGH. You need to check server and profiler for the bottlenecks. As a comparison recently i transferred a site to digitalocean with a response time of 150 ms.

EDIT: Looks like your apache is not able to handle concurrent connections. As more connection is made it takes longer to open new connection. You should probably try nginx if its your private server.

so much to do....
Quote · 2 Jan 2014

Yeah....

bad

I remember back to 1999 how I was happy jumping up to the ceiling when I downloaded my first ~3 Mb mp3 file from the Internet via dialup... It took an hour+ @ ~14.4 kbps... :)

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Quote · 2 Jan 2014

LOL must be fun, i didn't had internet back then :(

I remember back to 1999 how I was happy jumping up to the ceiling when I downloaded my first ~3 Mb mp3 file from the Internet via dialup... It took an hour+ @ ~14.4 kbps... :)

 

so much to do....
Quote · 2 Jan 2014

 

Install profiler module and take a look at whats slowing down.

 I am in the US - Atlanta

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Quote · 3 Jan 2014

Ok - I wish I understood the lingo that you all speak, but I am the owner who is in need of getting this fixed.  Even me being on my own site, I hate to navigate around here b/c of the loading time.

Would any of you experts be willing to work with me on a reg basis with certain projects and become an advisor to ensure that I give my customers the best experience possible? 

I send tweaks/you provide quotes...if so, please contact me.

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BTW, thanks everyone that took the time to review my site and provide feedback.  Really appreciate the team effort.  I am happy to be a part of the dolphin community.

 

Thanks again.

www.OEFitness.com: Where Health and Wellness Remain United
Quote · 3 Jan 2014

If you want speed, you may install nginx webserver + php-fpm + memcached + page speed,
Otherwise dolphin will always be slow.
And if you're ambitious do an account on a CDN network for static content

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Quote · 4 Feb 2014

 Ok - I wish I understood the lingo that you all speak

 

Simple: Your server has not enough power to run dolphin.

Sure code/compression is not optimal but with response times for static resources that high it has to be an overbooked VPS.

Quote · 4 Feb 2014

 

Ok, here's my report, just for curiosity...

1. It's just a lot of non-optimized senseless mess there...  

208 requests ❘ 453 KB transferred ❘ 15.89 s (load: 10.25 s, DOMContentLoaded: 8.17 s)

mess

The most of this mess is coming from your current template, which is designed really badly.

2. 256 lines of code just to generate one block is way too much.

577 kb just for background picture http://www.operationenduringfitness.com/bg.jpg

290 kb just for http://www.operationenduringfitness.com/images/arms_and_shoulders.jpg

Banners on home page are too heavy.

3. Small icons/images are not combined into sprites

4. head_bg.png is missing, 3 errors in 1 js file, 3 errors in 2 css files; total 3412 lines of html code on home page. 

 

My conclusion: now it's good to burn offline version on DVD and give copies to your users. Not for online usage. Must be 10 times lighter.

 

Images should be optimized..to make it lighter this will help http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/ but the quality is the same.

 

Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. 

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Quote · 4 Feb 2014

Sure they should 

Images should be optimized..to make it lighter this will help http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/ but the quality is the same.

 

but even for his super half a meg background (which isn't even visible) i get 42ms download time (on a crappy isp). The response time is the problem: 3.36s.

 

 

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Quote · 4 Feb 2014

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Quote · 26 Feb 2014
 
 
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