I am testing IP4.4.2 on localhost and planning my upgrade strategy (from ip3.x). One thing I have noticed is the very long page loading times with the gallery widget.
I am using the NET tab in Firebug to get the speeds.
Typical results;
(1) Pages with text and photos 75 to 120 ms
(2) Page with 4 images in gallery 2.86 sec
(3) page with 9 images in gallery 6.37 sec
These are not big images in the gallery, pages with just text and images have much larger images and load quickly.
It is not that the images load gradually, nothing happens for the full 6.37 secs then the pages loads completely.
I am using the Air theme and I have used images boarders and shadows.
Any ideas why there is such a long loading time?
Alan
Sorry, it appears it was my localhost set up that was the problem. When I first installed IP I did not have mod_rewrite activated. I activated mod_rewrite later but did not change the IP set up. I still had index.php in the site urls and did not realise.
Now I have re-installed the system with the mod-rewrite working properly and the pages with the gallery widget install at similar speeds to the other pages.
I don't know why the gallery pages were slow in the set up site with the mod-rewrite problem, but now all is working properly, and I have the proper urls !!!
Alan
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i have a meteor project (web not app) and when i view the site on my iphone over wifi it works great, but when i view the site over LTE i see a white page or sometimes a black page. this implies to me that the site is taking too long to download too much so the browser is giving up. (maybe i'm in left field)
so, i was wondering if anyone knows how to measure how large the initial meteor download will be for the first page. and some tips to minimize that size.
for example, i know there are some stock images that i can remove from my code but what i'd like to see is how much of an impact that is making (if any), and to look for additional optimizations to shrink that initial download size.
also, if there are other gotchas to be aware of in this case, i'd love to hear those as well.
In Chrome open your site then open the inspector and go to the Network tab and hit shift-cmd-R. This will completely reload the page and measure the network traffic. At the bottom of the chart you'll get a summary of network requests and bytes transferred such as:
33 requests | 31.4KB tranferred | etc...
For some reason when I use Chrome to test out my website, no images load at all, not even tiny ones like loading icons or the simple "back to top of page" arrow icon at the bottom. The browser tab just hangs on the spinning circle loading state. If I refresh it like 10 times or something then a portion of the images might load. Interestingly my Nivo-Slider images never load... there is a large empty space at where the Nivo-Slider gallery should be at the top left of my page no matter how many times I refresh.
The console is completely clean of errors if you check.
Can anyone check for me why my website is not working in Chrome? It works perfectly in Firefox/IE. I admit some images might have large file sizes but it shouldn't cause Chrome to hang for like half an hour?
I'm using latest Chrome/IE/Firefox. Windows 7 64-bit.
My website: www.symphonyofpromise.com/inspiration/en
By the way my website is a completely fictional museum/gallery project, it's not the official site for some museum!
I cannot be 100% certain on this, but judging from the Network panel, you might be loading too many MP3 files at the same time, thus maxing out the number of simultaneous requests. Chrome might use a different prioritization algorithm.
I would recommend removing some of those MP3 files and deferring loading until after the initial load.
EDIT:
Nevermind that, it appears that the MP3s load fine, but other resources are definitely blocking it. A request should never be pending this long. Poke around further in the Network panel and you'll find the problem.
I have an C# .Net MVC3 web app. We are utilizing the CkEditor control. We love the control, however we are having a performance issue with it. One of our pages displays a dynamic list of objects. For each row in the list we have two CkEditor text areas. The larger the list the slower our app is. A list of 72 rows takes over a minute and a half to lead. The rendered page has time tags at the beginning and end of the page. The time tags show the page takes 2 seconds to create. The rest of the time is spent on the client rendering the page. The performance degradation is directly proportional to the number of CkEditor controls on a page.
Any ideas? Are we, in our code, loading a framework more than we need to, going out to the web for properties of each control?
The original developer is no longer and I am a novice with CkEditor.
I found an answer. It's not great news, but it's an answer. IE is the culprit. Firefox loads the identical URL's 6 to 7 times faster. The attached article from CkEditor support is what clued me in
CkEditor Support on Performance Degradation
I run and manage the website http://onedirection.net, and we've spent a lot of time recently trying to improve the loading speed of the site. There's a lot of content on the site which requires load time, but everything else is going smoothly.
In Chrome, we're very happy with the load speed, but things don't seem as good in IE9. In fact when we load the homepage up, it seems to pause for a while, but worse still when I click and hold the Back button, I can see about 6-7 redirects from the initial page load!
What is causing this? There are no redirects on the site, but it looks like the social media links and a couple of adverts are causing strange problems.
I've never seen this before, so I'm a bit stumped!
Also, the chat bar at the bottom of the site doesn't load properly on the homepage, but does on other pages.
Can anyone shed any light into what is causing these issues, and better still how to solve it?
Thanks,
Chris.
To be honest performance in Chrome isn't that great - from my home connection the page takes 11 seconds to load in Chrome.
Here's a waterfall for the home page in IE9 from a server in Dublin - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120901_NC_f64ed067693fda62238e67cce432f964/1/details/
The waterfall is pretty horrible to be honest - too many requests, too many domains, no prioritisation of content, javascript in the head loading in a blocking manner
I'd need to look in more depth but essentially due to the number of third party components you've lost control of your page load.
Ive done all my Wordpress development in Firefox and I am using a caching plugin called W3 Total Cache.
The only problem I'm facing is that in Safari and Chrome, my navigation is being reloaded each time a user works their way through the navigation, I understand this is how the web works, that assets and content are being reloaded with each click. But in FF, its perfect, the nav appears to stay in place while the navigation is extended underneath > see http://spunfilms.samuelcane.com/ then http://spunfilms.samuelcane.com/work and then that pages children. Have a look at the site in Firefox and then in Chrome/Safari.
Has anyone got any ideas why I'm getting this inconsistency across browsers?
Is there a way around it?
Thanks,
Red
By using W3TC plugin in Wordpress, I managed to optimize the site to make the page load almost instantaneous. My problem was that the plugin wasn't configured properly. I took a look at some other sites using the plugin and tried to configure it accordingly.