Site too Slow?
 

I was wondering if My Site http://slipperyonion.com is frustrating to use because its too slow? I can't really ask My users but at times sometimes its upto 4 seconds before the first bite is received.

Its on shared hosting, and I don't really want to spend the money on VPS, but if it increases my google ratings and my retention rate I would be willing to upgrade:(

What do you all think?

It's seems ok to me. My site takes to load 8,5 sec according to webmaster tools.

Sometimes the juice is worth the squeeze to speed it up a little. Would love to help you out [email protected] skype melissa.critical

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shared hosting sucks

Setup a good VPS like linode.com or use hosted solutions (check my sig)

Fast for me :pimp

If you have a dedicated server or a vps with ssh access run this test from you command line.
ab -n 1000 -c 2 http://www.yousite.com/

Look for ?Request per second?

Run it a couple of times to get a benchmark of where you are at.

If you have shared hosting go here.
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

This site will breakdown where the bottle necks are. Once you find out that info you can then systematically make improvements in that area. Use a search engine to find that info. I had to add a php-accelerator., mysql query cache, server cache and some cache control to my .htaccess file

Add this to you .htaccess file
# 480 weeks
<filesMatch "\.(ico|flv|pdf|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$" >
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"
</filesMatch>

# 2 DAYS
<filesMatch "\.(xml|txt)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public, must-revalidate"
</filesMatch>

# 2 HOURS
<filesMatch "\.(php|html)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=7200, must-revalidate"
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
</filesMatch>

Restart your server or if you on shared hosting ask them to restart you and re-do your test.

Also if you have access to your php.ini check to see if you have the mod_deflate modul.

Good Luck

http://site-perf.com/cgi-bin/show.cgi?id=thi9wUPNtt2

Not really fast :(

Fast for me too :winkwink:

Super fast for me, I think my site is much slower and I have VPS

Quite the medium speed, opens completely with a rough 2-3 seconds. You shouldn't sweat much with that speed, tho' VPS or dedicated is always way better than shared.

I actually like your site alot. The pages do load a tiny bit slowly, but due to the way you have your site designed, there's lots of things to look at in the few seconds it takes for the new page to load. I haven't had a page load on your site take more than 3 seconds. I can't imagine the speed would dissuade anyone who's actually interested in the sorts of pics your site offers.

The only thing I find slow about your site is the 'add tags' section when uploading pics, and that's a minuscule annoyance at best:)

As a viewer, I don't see a problem at all. Your site has some seriously gorgeous photography. 3 seconds (or four, if that's what your stats are showing) shouldn't be a big deal.

check ur site using gtmetrix.com and follow their suggestion, i just check ur site grade is on C grade

fast here

Soon to be Dead slow...permanent extinction.

"Having eyes filled with lust that cannot cease from sin. Cursed children" - 2 Peter

It seems that your script processing time is the problem.
Have you tried to enable caching in your cms?
I also mentioned that you are not using browser caching for your images, js and css files.

To enable this you can try to add this to your .htaccess:
# cache images/pdf docs for 10 days
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=864000, public, must-revalidate"
Header unset Last-Modified
</FilesMatch>

It's seemed ok to me, could be improved but not all that bad