Please review site load time

All over 10 seconds are considered slow...

Hi,

About 10 secs to fully load, I think you should compress the images better the home page to speed up the load time.

the six slides on your home page are a total of 3.13mb in file size, this is way too big for just 6 images. Do the following:

1. Change the images from .png to .jpg
2. use good jpg compression - compress to 75%

The should speed up the load time dramatically.

good luck !

thanks appreciate your comments


regards,
ASHISH THAKKAR

It took about 5 seconds to load your site if you want to know.

It's pretty slow, you probably have large images plus the coding is bloated.

Clean up the code and reduce image size.

Nice looking site, but took over 24 seconds to show any content and 35 seconds to load completely. I am accessing the site from Hong Kong.

Some steps you can take to speed up your site.

Install GZIP Compression

You are not currently using GZIP compression.

If you are using PHP, try adding ("ob_gzhandler"); to the very first line of your template file (above the !DOCTYPE) tag. This single line of code will gzip the page for browsers that support GZIP (and leave it unzipped for those that don't) and will help reduce the load time

Google "how to install ob_gzhandler" for more info if you have trouble getting it to work.

Consolidate and Compress Javascripts

You page calls over 16 .js files! Consider consolidating these into a single file, compressing it, then using gzip. Name the gzipped version whatever.js.jgz and the unzipped compressed version whatever.js (note that compression is different to gzipping - again, Google is your friend here).

Note: Keep the pngfix.js separate since it is only needed for older versions of IE so you don't want to call it unnecessarily.

Edit your template file to remove all of the calls to individual .js files and replace with a single line<script type="text/javascript" src="path/whatever.js"></script>

Consider placing the call at the end of your file, just above the </body> tag. This will mean that your content (text and images) will load first, and then the .js formatting will be applied later. Whilst it won't look pretty at first, your visitors will quickly see content, giving them the reassurance that something is loading.

Finally, you will need to add the following lines to your .htaccess file to tell it to serve the .js.jgz file when the browser supports compression and the .js when it doesn't.

RewriteRule (.*)\.js$ $1\.js.jgz [L]
AddType "text/javascript" .js.jgz
AddEncoding gzip .jgz

Consolidate CSS files

Just like your javascripts, consider consolidating your 5 CSS files into a single file and removing all the unnecessary whitespace and commenting. This will reduce round trip requests to the server and the overall file size.

Again keep the ie-only.css file separate to avoide serving it to Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc.

Compress Images

Agree with dcpweb that whilst PNGs look sharp and stunning, most of your visitors won't notice the difference between a PNG and a 60-70% Compressed JPEG.

Further Performance Feedback

Also, in Google WebMaster tools, under the Labs Tab, there is a SitePerformance tool. If you site is already indexed by Google, they will tell you how quickly it loads for them and how this compared with the rest of the internet.

If you use Firefox, you can install the Page Speed plugin to get realtime data on your site's performance.

Thanks to everyone for their comments

I have changed png to jpg for the time being.


Best regards,
ASHISH THAKKAR

It loaded here around 10 secs... It must have been the images in the slider.

Another thing I noticed (which is not regarding the loading time of the site) is some of the images in the slider are stretched. It will look better in my opinion if it wouldn't be.