Bluehost + C5 = slow load times?
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I've read a couple forums about people talking about slow load times with Bluehost and C5. I'm experiencing slow load times myself and would like advise on how to resolve / troubleshoot the issue.
I've run Google Speedtest and got 96/100 scored. I ran the Bluehost test and was average to above average on everything. I dont have any C5 caching enabled via the dashboard.
I built the site with MAMP and everything loads quickly (given its local). I also uploaded the site on another test server (without C5 backend) and it loads quickly. The demo site has some slight changes, but nothing huge.
Looking for advise / suggestions on what to do in order to improve these speeds. Request to be moved to a different server? Re-installed C5? Move hosts all together?
Here is the Bluehost link:http://thelocalpig.com
Demo site link (non C5):http://demo.lovecraft.brmethod.com/BR/localpig...
Thank you C5 community!
I've run Google Speedtest and got 96/100 scored. I ran the Bluehost test and was average to above average on everything. I dont have any C5 caching enabled via the dashboard.
I built the site with MAMP and everything loads quickly (given its local). I also uploaded the site on another test server (without C5 backend) and it loads quickly. The demo site has some slight changes, but nothing huge.
Looking for advise / suggestions on what to do in order to improve these speeds. Request to be moved to a different server? Re-installed C5? Move hosts all together?
Here is the Bluehost link:http://thelocalpig.com
Demo site link (non C5):http://demo.lovecraft.brmethod.com/BR/localpig...
Thank you C5 community!
Have you upgraded to the newest C5 version 5.6.1? It renders considerably faster than 5.6.02
You can also try adding the following to your .htaccess files to enable gzip and server side caching
<IfModule mod_deflate.c> # compress text, html, javascript, css, xml: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript <Files ~ "^[^\.]+$"> ForceType application/x-httpd-php SetOutputFilter DEFLATE </Files>
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Hi,
As far as I'm concerned your website loaded pretty fast.
I have a website hosted on a Bluehost shared account and I agree with Adreco, updating to the latest C5 makes a world of difference with the cache enabled.
I have to disagree with TheRealSean about gzipping though. The problem is, on Bluehost, gzipping is not fully enabled. It will gzip html but not javascript or css. They set it up like that because gzipping takes up resources and there's nothing you can do about it. If you check the settings you'll see gzipping is enabled but even with those lines in the htaccess, if you test you will always get that it's not enabled.
I was pretty mad at bluehost when I discovered that but apparently a lot of shared host do the same including hostgator.
As far as I'm concerned your website loaded pretty fast.
I have a website hosted on a Bluehost shared account and I agree with Adreco, updating to the latest C5 makes a world of difference with the cache enabled.
I have to disagree with TheRealSean about gzipping though. The problem is, on Bluehost, gzipping is not fully enabled. It will gzip html but not javascript or css. They set it up like that because gzipping takes up resources and there's nothing you can do about it. If you check the settings you'll see gzipping is enabled but even with those lines in the htaccess, if you test you will always get that it's not enabled.
I was pretty mad at bluehost when I discovered that but apparently a lot of shared host do the same including hostgator.
