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Anybody else out there with slow loading on 5.7? I thought it was my ISP in the UK but now it's looking like it's 5.7 itself. So much slower than my other concrete5 sites which are pre-5.7.
Need to launch these sites this week but could be embarrassed by the speed.
Any ideas or help very welcome.
David
Need to launch these sites this week but could be embarrassed by the speed.
Any ideas or help very welcome.
David
Hi Nesoor,
Thanks for your reply. The sites in question are oscfurniture.co.uk and osc-group.com.
The first site is quite large and based on the Fundamental theme but the second is only 4 pages and still very slow based on the Elemental theme as it won't be a large site.
Any advice would be much appreciated,#.
Many thanks,
David
Thanks for your reply. The sites in question are oscfurniture.co.uk and osc-group.com.
The first site is quite large and based on the Fundamental theme but the second is only 4 pages and still very slow based on the Elemental theme as it won't be a large site.
Any advice would be much appreciated,#.
Many thanks,
David
Hey DavidLLewis,
I am not an expert but I try my best !
Did you already try to enable the Elemental? When it's faster with the Elemental theme you could try to make the request of your website lower.
In my experience I see quite a difference in speed when I do this with my websites.
I had three times the same problem: once I updated my Concrete5 website to the latest version to solve it, other time it was just a javascript that was slowing it down and once it was my MySQL server that was slow.
You could also try to enable Gzip and browser caching !
Your website loads in 6 seconds which most people say that this is average.
I am not an expert but I try my best !
Did you already try to enable the Elemental? When it's faster with the Elemental theme you could try to make the request of your website lower.
In my experience I see quite a difference in speed when I do this with my websites.
I had three times the same problem: once I updated my Concrete5 website to the latest version to solve it, other time it was just a javascript that was slowing it down and once it was my MySQL server that was slow.
You could also try to enable Gzip and browser caching !
Your website loads in 6 seconds which most people say that this is average.
Hi Nesoor,
Thanks for your reply. I finally got around to adding the gzip compression today and have also added the browser caching and have seen a considerable improvement in load speeds.
Sorry to have been a bit tardy in responding.
Many thanks for this great answer.
David
Thanks for your reply. I finally got around to adding the gzip compression today and have also added the browser caching and have seen a considerable improvement in load speeds.
Sorry to have been a bit tardy in responding.
Many thanks for this great answer.
David
A few things....
check outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JePZaWPVuTg...
Some quick things to check:
1. Do you have caching enabled in concrete5?
2. Is the php XDebug extension enabled (if it is turn that off)?
check outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JePZaWPVuTg...
Some quick things to check:
1. Do you have caching enabled in concrete5?
2. Is the php XDebug extension enabled (if it is turn that off)?
You could try it with php7, if that's available to you. Supposedly php7 is up to 2x faster. c5 claims to be compatible with php7, but there are some threads here reporting issues. YMMV.
Hi DavidLLewis,
Yourhttp://osc-group.com/ site loads fairly fast for me.
Here is a breakdown of the performance using Web Page Test:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160521_D5_B0F/...
- The overall render time is average, but it is being slowed down by overly large and unoptimized images, lack of GZIP compression, and no browser caching. An example issue is the image Rayner.jpg is 1.2MB and is 3208 x 959.
- your server times are good
Yourhttp://oscfurniture.co.uk/ is loading slower for the same reasons thathttp://osc-group.com/ is being slowed down. Also,http://oscfurniture.co.uk/ is 4.9MB in size. This is going to have a significant impact on loading time.
Here is another breakdown:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160521_N8_B7H/...
- The results are the same as above, good server times, but a reduction in rendering times due to poor server and image optimization.
concrete5 is not causing a loading speed issue, the site design, server settings, and content themselves are. I highly recommend looking into best practices for site performance. Lara Hogan who is in charge of Etsy's web performance team wrote a book for O'Reilly that is free to read online.
Designing for Performance
http://designingforperformance.com/...
Yourhttp://osc-group.com/ site loads fairly fast for me.
Here is a breakdown of the performance using Web Page Test:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160521_D5_B0F/...
- The overall render time is average, but it is being slowed down by overly large and unoptimized images, lack of GZIP compression, and no browser caching. An example issue is the image Rayner.jpg is 1.2MB and is 3208 x 959.
- your server times are good
Yourhttp://oscfurniture.co.uk/ is loading slower for the same reasons thathttp://osc-group.com/ is being slowed down. Also,http://oscfurniture.co.uk/ is 4.9MB in size. This is going to have a significant impact on loading time.
Here is another breakdown:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160521_N8_B7H/...
- The results are the same as above, good server times, but a reduction in rendering times due to poor server and image optimization.
concrete5 is not causing a loading speed issue, the site design, server settings, and content themselves are. I highly recommend looking into best practices for site performance. Lara Hogan who is in charge of Etsy's web performance team wrote a book for O'Reilly that is free to read online.
Designing for Performance
http://designingforperformance.com/...
Hi MrKDilkington,
Thank you for your excellent and considered response to this and of course your advice.
Sorry that I have been slow to respond but it has taken some time obviously to go through everything that you suggested. The images were ridiculously large as you pointed out.
I have worked through the Designing for Performance which is well worth while as you suggested.
I'm still struggling with the internal navigation speeds of oscfurniture.co.uk but the initial load speed has been corrected. So I'll press on and trust that I will find improvements. I have re-run the performance test today that you linked and will analyse those results a thy come in.
Many thanks for your help again and i like the recent apps that you have added for concrete5.
Many thanks,
Best regards,
David
Thank you for your excellent and considered response to this and of course your advice.
Sorry that I have been slow to respond but it has taken some time obviously to go through everything that you suggested. The images were ridiculously large as you pointed out.
I have worked through the Designing for Performance which is well worth while as you suggested.
I'm still struggling with the internal navigation speeds of oscfurniture.co.uk but the initial load speed has been corrected. So I'll press on and trust that I will find improvements. I have re-run the performance test today that you linked and will analyse those results a thy come in.
Many thanks for your help again and i like the recent apps that you have added for concrete5.
Many thanks,
Best regards,
David
Could you post a link of your website ?