Is it possible to load a dynamic site within 5 secs?

Well your developer is obviously no good, as this is not true.

Go look at some big sites that runs tons of things, and they still load in seconds, or less.

It really depends on the type of website you've, which framework you're using etc. Please provide the link to your website so we can tell you more. But, that's what definitely is possible to be done.

What slows down page load time is JavaScript and images, not querying the database to get the data. Optimize those things first.
Remember the site you are on now is dynamic, how long does it take to load?

A server can generate a dynamic webpage in an order of milliseconds - if your webpage is taking long to load, it's likely hosted content (images etc) dragging performance

It's not only the content of the site but the UPLOAD speed of the servers internet connection. Is the connection from the server broadband or fiber-optic?

Other variables can be the speed of the server, memory, hard disk drive IO rate etc. Is there a bottleneck on the server. How many people are trying to access the site etc etc.

This is where I would start!

Is it an ASP based site? If so, IIS automatically goes to "sleep" until a new request comes. And sometimes that can take 5-10 seconds for it to wake up and server your request. You can change IIS to be "always on".

According to surveys done by Akamai and Gomez.com, nearly half of web users expect a site to load in 2 seconds or less, and they tend to abandon a site that isn't loaded within 3 seconds.

Here's how you can test and measure your site's load time: Google introduced its own web-based tool accessible via Google Labs, called Page Speed Online and as well as a Chrome extension.

If your page size is 3 MB, then you are doing something wrong ... most likely using way too many graphics. Most people do not have connections capable of loading 3MB in under 2 seconds.

Depending on the page composition, you might be able to make a 3MB page appear to load almost instantly by using javascript to dynamically load content after the page itself loads (e.g. lazy loading mechanisms).

As nimonogi pointed out, there are tools that can be used to check for reasons for slow load times. The top offenders are typically:

- Lots of javascript and/or css files, especially javascript loading before the very closing end tag
- Lots of images, especially large images (even if they are scaled down on the page)

If you posted a link, I could take a quick look and tell you what you might be able to optimize ... but 3 MB in under 3 seconds is a tall order for most connections.

It can pretty easily be done, as was said above, you just need a server that can process the request quickly, and then serve it to you. It can be hard work on the server if there are hundreds of requests at a time or something of course. Just like it would be troublesome to your home PC to do the same. Probably good to have a heavy duty processor and a lot of memory on your server.

Sometimes the serving of the webpage can get a bit complicated if there are a ton of images or files being sent, in that case rather than multiple servers, you can simply use multiple urls believe it or not, even if they are on the same server... assuming you have a halve decent server. Our website serves up 200-300 images per page, in seconds from a single server all day long. We use about 6 URLs for the job.

You can see it in the Funny Shirts link below if you want.

I can totally help you with that. A few ways that will do it:

- Javascript minification, grouping and defering
- css minification and grouping
- caching
- images dimensions/sizes
- css and js gzip compression
- css sprites
- more..

Send a PM if you're interested and i'll make your page load in less than 5 seconds :-)

you can easily load within 3 sec with not much of work ... the shortest shortcut is to use cloudflare which is free and will make any site blazing fast and it is easy to set up ....

I recommend to have a website load within 5 seconds of the request. Any longer is going to lead to a high bounce rate.

I would recommend to use caching. I'm sure things aren't going to change that dramatically all the time and you can even reset cache every so odd time intervals to make sure they are getting the most up-to-date content.

i've heard 'dynamic website' means different to different people. some refers dynamic websites as sites that behaves differently from one user to another, some other people say that it refers to websites that use scripts for its features in order to serve contents, and others say some other things.

on the basic, modern websites have both client-side scripting and server-side requests. this is for websites to dynamically interchanging content. the point of this is to reduce server load time because the user won't need to load the entire page to be regenerated by the server.

if you think that your site takes too long to load, open gtmetrix.com. its simple and easy to use, and you can get a lot of information on how you can improve your site's loading speed.

any website's loading speed for first time visitors is determined by three factors: server respond, number of requests and the size of the page. if you can make your way around on those three, you'll have a faster loading website...guarantee.

if you want to make your site faster for returning visitors, you should use proper caching, better written css-html, and so forth.

and if your site is relying on APIs, you probably need to address the problem to them.

As a few people have mentioned, there are too many factors that could be at play here. Some people have mentioned some good front end optimization tips and others have mentioned that too many database queries could cause this.

It's hard to tell what is actually going on without knowing what the site is.

If it's the site in your signature (OfferBlu), then there are some optimization issues that I noticed.

There are 236 requests being made, sending a total of 7.5mb transferred. The initial load is 4.12s and the total load time is 8.48s.

The majority of that is 3rd party javascript and images from a third party service.

Depending on the site, the list of things to do can go on and on.