Overview: This blog aims to show how to increase your site speed and make it function as efficiently as possible and for critics shoot with me your negative comments.
1. The first method is the do it yourself way. You can of course, find a lot of ways on the internet for various optimization techniques. If you want you can ask professional coders to help implement the optimization to your site or you can do it yourself. The links below will guide you on how to increase your site speed.
a. Dolphin Instruction how to configure your server
b. Instruction how to install Php eAccelerator
c. Install apache mod_deflate, most hosting provider will do this for you and add these lines in your .htaccess
OR
check this website tool to determined your site page speed -- Analyze Performance
d. If you're on a dedicated server add additional hard drive dedicated for dolphin scripts & content and other hard drive dedicated to mysql database.
e. Monitor your mysql slow log this will help you identify which sql query is slow and optimized these queries or you can disable the script module that is running the sql query.
f. Most site speed questions center around hosting providers. All hosting providers recommended by Boonex are quite sufficient for most needs. The reality is that we must focus on site scripts modification and running modules and matching it with your hosting plan. For example the "simple messenger" module is turn On, this will require significant amount of resources if there are many online users so you need at least a VPS plan.
g. This might help too. hardware firewall this will block unwanted traffic.
h. CDN for your images and video files.
2. The second of the vital aspects is a bug free site. Site users and visitors will usually shun a site that is ridden with bugs. When your site runs smoothly and seamlessly, it will be a pleasure for site visitors.
Always ask your developer or module provider how the script accesses the database. Is the sql query optimized or tested using a large database content? When the sql query is optimized and tested with a large database, this ensures that in the future the module or modification will not slow down your site as it grows in the future.
3. The third important aspect is the availability of live support on your site. Interacting with your users in real time will give you a clue which part of your site needs improvement . There are several free live support software out there like livezilla, that can be readily customized to various site specifications
By the way I write this blog to help stop the frustration how to speed up dolphin site
by Pedro here in dolphinbugfixing.com
It got a YSlow Grade of E (59%) and a Page Speed grade of C (78%)
Every site analyzer I've used on my site and the Boonex Demo site give Fs when it comes to the amount of elements used, cookies, bloated images, excessive style sheets. It doesn't look like much as changed with the new Demo version.
What can we do about the issues that come with the Boonex software itself? It takes practicaly 20 .css elements see more
I think what matter most is the page load here you can see that its 6.52s -- http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.boonex.us/d3jirEeN but this is the version 7.0.3
I did comparison to another site that is using version 7.0.2 with optimization Page load time: 4.10s
Interestingly, I tested a bunch of competition products demos and all of them resulted with similar see more
(87%)
Page Speed Grade:
(81%)
is what i got lol. i must be doing something right :)...
http://gtmetrix.com
It is possible you would share the site url so we can see ourselves, and also what you have done to get that result please? Everyone reading this thread will be wondering how you did it. Any secrets you wish to share or not? :-)
On a test site with no load I got 72/73 with Page load time: 4.67s Total page size: 516KB Total number of requests: 80 - and that is with only members, featured members (none), sounds and photos, stats, login and quick search on the home page. What is the see more