SLOW - blank theme, no content (5.5.2.1) on MediaTemple
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Anyway to speed this up? I did a speed test on a blank page default.php template and it is considerably slower than a full-blown website on the same server.
Regular Full-blown website:
http://tinyurl.com/existing-site...
(performance grade: 85/100)
vs
Concrete 5 blank default.php with no content:
http://tinyurl.com/blank-c5521-site...
(performance grade: 65/100)
tested at:http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
I also used Yslow and it gets a not-great grade. There is nothing on this template! View the source.
I also tested concrete5.org and it has better grade than my blank site by about 20 points! (81/100) What in the hell could I possibly be doing wrong on a blank page????
Regular Full-blown website:
http://tinyurl.com/existing-site...
(performance grade: 85/100)
vs
Concrete 5 blank default.php with no content:
http://tinyurl.com/blank-c5521-site...
(performance grade: 65/100)
tested at:http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
I also used Yslow and it gets a not-great grade. There is nothing on this template! View the source.
I also tested concrete5.org and it has better grade than my blank site by about 20 points! (81/100) What in the hell could I possibly be doing wrong on a blank page????
There is no trick to speeding up the base of C5? It's all about a great hosting company? It seems like there has got to be something that people are doing to make C5 faster. I figured I'd ask about this because there is literally no content. It's just loading a stylesheet at the moment, but there's nothing even to style. The content of the page is basically just one empty div.
Wowee, MediaTemple really is not good for $20/month! I just installed on Hostgators baby gator service, which is $3.95 per month and got an 80/100 even with some sample content on the site! So, for $20/month, MediaTemple is a huge ripoff. That is shocking to me because I've always been under the impression they are a top notch hosting company (although I haven't used them much).
The plain HTML site is faster to serve because it does not look as though it is making any DB requests nor is it trying to load jquery. Also the C5 site is delivering non gzipped content (the css and jquery files) whereas the static HTML site has gzip compression turned on.
When you deploy a C5 site you can do a bunch of things to speed it up such as using Google to deliver jquery, minify and combine CSS files, and turn on caching.
When you deploy a C5 site you can do a bunch of things to speed it up such as using Google to deliver jquery, minify and combine CSS files, and turn on caching.
It's not a plain HTML site. It has a database and a CMS and all the pages are PHP.
There isn't any content on the C5, so I didn't think it would be important to minify the short style sheet. I also assumed C5 would have jQuery delivered the fastest way since speed optimization was a big consideration for the 5.5+, but I'll definitely change that if it needs to be changed. For now, I've decided MediaTemple is no value and I will not be using them.
There isn't any content on the C5, so I didn't think it would be important to minify the short style sheet. I also assumed C5 would have jQuery delivered the fastest way since speed optimization was a big consideration for the 5.5+, but I'll definitely change that if it needs to be changed. For now, I've decided MediaTemple is no value and I will not be using them.
