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webchris

14 years ago

Roan, it is not loading at all for me. Is the domain misspelled?

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kokopelli

14 years ago

You have one "w" too many in your URL, it should be Roan Akkermans

It looks to me that the following calls to external files may be slowing down the loading of your site:

Code:

http://4llw4d.freefilesblog.com/jquery.min.js

and

Code:

http://4llw4d.freefilesblog.com/jquery.js

Is it a plugin? Maybe you can upload and call those files (that appear to be blank, BTW) locally instead?

Maybe it's malware...

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purpleswizzleswirl 14 years ago

The biggest issue I had over the years was cheap hosting. I switched to Media Temple and most of my problems went away.

It's a bit more expensive but it actually made a huge difference.
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Roan

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kokopelli

You have one "w" too many in your URL, it should be Roan Akkermans

It looks to me that the following calls to external files may be slowing down the loading of your site:

Code:

http://4llw4d.freefilesblog.com/jquery.min.js

and

Code:

http://4llw4d.freefilesblog.com/jquery.js

Is it a plugin? Maybe you can upload and call those files (that appear to be blank, BTW) locally instead?

cheers! I have no clue what that is tho lol. Needa figure it out.

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Linkie

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kokopelli

You have one "w" too many in your URL, it should be Roan Akkermans

It looks to me that the following calls to external files may be slowing down the loading of your site:

Code:

http://4llw4d.freefilesblog.com/jquery.min.js

and

Code:

http://4llw4d.freefilesblog.com/jquery.js

Is it a plugin? Maybe you can upload and call those files (that appear to be blank, BTW) locally instead?

Maybe it's malware...

yes it is, those script are slowing your website down...

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JDBradley

14 years ago

it's not loading at all for me either at the min. gets about 3/4s the way then just hangs.

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cassiegetty

14 years ago

your website is pretty cool, maybe purplewiz is right, it has something to do with your hosting. you should contact them and tell your complain.

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ritchierich

14 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the site is being hosted on HostGator. Not really a cheap host. I would ask your host to change you over to another server if possible. Also, if you're using wordpress, install W3 Total Cache. I've written essential wordpress plugins which talks about good plugins to have for your site.

Hope it helps! PM if you still need help.

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Roan

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ritchierich

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the site is being hosted on HostGator. Not really a cheap host. I would ask your host to change you over to another server if possible. Also, if you're using wordpress, install W3 Total Cache. I've written essential wordpress plugins which talks about good plugins to have for your site.

Hope it helps! PM if you still need help.

Yes that is true. Hosted on hostgator. I am using wordpress and I will check out that total cache one! Thanks!!

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IM-software

14 years ago

Hi,

you have too many javascripts, nine of them; some of them being really heavy, some of them calling external DNSs. Which means that several javascripts have to contact (depend on) other sites (services) before loading within the browser.
As the JS are in the head (as most of the JSs), the body hardly loads.

In other words, you have too many heavy installed plugins.

You may find several free tools to confirm that. Why don't you check: GG's "pagespeed".

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AnniePot 14 years ago

When I clicked to view your website, Malwarebytes immediately displayed a warning that it blocked malicious content you were trying to load
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- blogfreakz 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by AnniePot
  
  When I clicked to view your website, Malwarebytes immediately displayed a warning that it blocked malicious content you were trying to load
  
  agree, you can check malwarebytes for you site... good luck!
  
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shoeb000

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Roan

cheers! I have no clue what that is tho lol. Needa figure it out.

The JQuerry scripts are those slide show from slidedeck.com site...
And lot of javascripts as well...

As IM-software specified the 9 javascripts... you must remove the useless javascripts which are not ESSENTIAL and are just for aesthetic purpose... or for the sake of beauty...

Originally Posted by IM-software

Hi,

you have too many javascripts, nine of them; some of them being really heavy, some of them calling external DNSs. Which means that several javascripts have to contact (depend on) other sites (services) before loading within the browser.
As the JS are in the head (as most of the JSs), the body hardly loads.

In other words, you have too many heavy installed plugins.

You may find several free tools to confirm that. Why don't you check: GG's "pagespeed".

I guess your complete problem has been very well explained by IM-Software...

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mapetshi

14 years ago

install wp-minify plugin.

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kokopelli

14 years ago

As I mentioned above, those external scripts are slowing your site down - your site is waiting to load them, and if they're slow/not loading, that affects your site loading too.

I found out it is a known issue with (some) Elegant Themes, that try and include the jquery scripts from their own site (4llw4d.freefilesblog.com), which is very slow/not loading, thus affecting your site.

Solutions:

You can change the code in your theme header to either load the jquery scripts from your own site, or a fast outside source, such as Google; or
Get the theme update from Elegant Themes - apparently, the newest version does not call the jquery scripts from an outside source.

Do either of these, and your slow site will be fast, guaranteed.

You can read more about this issue here:
WordPress › Support » What does this function do? (curl_init)

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gomzydecor

14 years ago

There are many ways to make websites run faster. Practices have improved the user experience for millions of users and we hope they are useful for other web developers. I personally use Gzip to optimize my webpage.

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movics 14 years ago

if you use wordpress, install wp super cache and db cache reloaded plugin
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amandeepsingh

14 years ago

1 - Not use Flash Files
2 - Not use jquery scrips
3 - Decrease image size
4 - use wordpress themes

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Eugen Oprea 14 years ago

Speed is a real issue for visitors and for search engines, because it can affect rankings.

In terms of WordPress websites, here's what I do and recommend to everyone:

- Install a premium theme that has clean code which loads fast
- Try to use images that have small sizes; big images take ages to load
- Use only the plugins that you really need; plugins add additional scripts to load and they make the site slow.
- Use a CDN (Content Delivery Network); Amazon is really inexpensive

That being said, from my tests your site loads in 2.9 seconds which is pretty good, but if you would like you can do even better.

Hope this helps.
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- gyanendra 14 years ago
  
  Hi killer999,
  
  I agree with you that Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) will be a great solution to improve the website speed. But also you should do this by reducing the file size. it is better to use different file for different section of the information instead of single file.
  
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aldemer

14 years ago

Hi Roan, after checking, you are using FlexSqueeze wordpress themes that is cool, your site hosted in hostgator no problem.

Here is i learn from my own site, because i am using FlexSqueeze themes too. you need to deactivate all the plugin, then reactivate it one by one observe the speed after you activate every plugin.

Hope this help

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jpboxersox

14 years ago

Do you use seopressor? As much as I love it I think it slows down my sights. What does everyone else think?

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aldemer

14 years ago

@jpboxersox, I installed seopressor in my site, no problem for me, the loading speed still fast.

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makemepaisa 14 years ago

if you willing to spend money, i would suggest get wp-cache plugin and integrate it with maxcdn for faster loading time.
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aardanyul

14 years ago

A good caching system can work wonders. Also make sure not to use really bad hosting, they can really screw you over. You can pick up a nice vps cheap if you find a great deal and itll be amazing

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killer999

14 years ago

1. Minimize the number of HTTP requests
2. Optimize and correctly display images
3. Minify HTML, CSS, and Javascript
4. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
5. Gzip and compress components
6. Choose <link> over @import
7. Put stylesheets at the top
8. Put scripts at the bottom
9. Utilize browser caching
10. Use CSS Sprites

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eden71

14 years ago

did you installed cron job? by installing the cron job make sit faster

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iqbal

14 years ago

the website loaded within 20s. nice work, well done! you have sorted your site

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giannabosanquet

14 years ago

I don't think your website is slow still you can try one thing.

Install Yslow addon in mozilla firefox. Open your website and run the test.
Then click on the components ans statistics from that you would get the exact idea that which things takes maximum loading.

Optimizing them will help to load your website faster.

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Banned 14 years ago

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IMBotz 14 years ago

If you are using shared hosting it could be one of the reasons. Switching to VPS can help load it faster.

When the page needs to get its content from a database (Wordpress posts and pages) the load time gets bigger. While the squeeze pages have everything stored in their file hence you noticed they loaded much faster.

Images do increase the load time but not as much, especially if they are not too big in size.

If you are driving paid traffic to your sales page you may want to decrease the load times. The visitors will lose interest waiting for it to load and hit 'back' or go to your competitors site!

Good luck!
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Orlando Web Design

14 years ago

Site loading fine for me.

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shantanu

14 years ago

Website is not at all slow it is opening fantastically but in some systems it might can open slowly coz of the premium tempalte which u have putted n the front residing at left.

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wordcatcher

14 years ago

It could be many reasons for this: html pages that are heavy, too many or too large graphics, bad coding , slow servers.

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sharonhurley

Banned 14 years ago

For most websites, only client-side optimization is really important.

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msu

14 years ago

Looks like the OP got her problem fixed but here's blog post that might anyone suffering from a slow loading site:
Speed Up Your Site For Better Search Engine Optimisation

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dallas2g5

14 years ago

Use SuperCache if using wordpress

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Kingfish85

14 years ago

The OP hasn't updated this thread, so I assume the problem has been resolved. Also, to everyone saying use WP SuperCache... that's not the only solution here. There are a lot of things that play into performance issues, and 9 times out of 10 having cheap web hosting with an overloaded environment is the main cause.

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dinnap

14 years ago

I like the side!
But you can crop the page even more!

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inazuman

14 years ago

look ok to me. loading very fast. is your problem solve already?

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vivadesign 14 years ago

Originally Posted by inazuman

look ok to me. loading very fast. is your problem solve already?

Same here, no problems..
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HorseStall

14 years ago

Did you compress the images? Load time seems fine from here.

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nonin

14 years ago

convert images to png via photoshop (export to web..)

gl

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nonin

14 years ago

your biggest problem - header slider

jquery are always very, very slow

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fermanaziz

14 years ago

well there are lots of things you can try, here are few:

1. get CDN
2. Install W3total cache plugin it will minify CSS and JS files
3. Use YSlow firefox extension to check what is slowing down.
4. Make sprite of all small icons

trust me there are many things you can do just mentioning the basic ones

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Ian Jackson 14 years ago

Hi Roan,

Your site is loading up fine for me.

However, if I were you, IMHO I'd drop using what appears to be a web-editor (unnecessary ugly frames), and learn WordPress.

The time you spend messing around with html in web editor to beautify everything, you can have learned WordPress, which an many Warriors will verify, gives you pretty much limitless versatility
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