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I have built a few sites with C5 now on various servers. They are all intermittently slow as death on crutches. It is not my internet connection since I have tested from various locations, all on broadband in NYC which has pretty competitive speeds.
Is there something I am missing or is this just an inherent problem with C5? I am not using the latest version, I have used the last version since the new version came out and people were complaining about their websites breaking.
This is really upsetting to me, obviously, as a lot of time, money and effort went into these sites. I really need to figure out why this is happening.
Is there something I am missing or is this just an inherent problem with C5? I am not using the latest version, I have used the last version since the new version came out and people were complaining about their websites breaking.
This is really upsetting to me, obviously, as a lot of time, money and effort went into these sites. I really need to figure out why this is happening.
Just talked to my hosting. I'll let you know if it is resolved.
The site you listed above seems plenty fast to me.
Some tips: if you are finished developing your site, enabling the cache will help out a ton. Always a good idea post-production.
Another tip is to upgrade to 5.4.1.1 . The speed is said to have drastically improved. How to upgrade from 5.3.3.1 to 5.4.1.1:http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/installation/upgrading-fr...
You should check out this article about loading jQuery from Google's CDN:http://defunctlife.com/2010/05/slow-speeds-and-speeding-up-concrete...
There's also an add-on in the C5 marketplace that does the jQuery gig automatically for you + more.
You could also combine your CSS into one file (reduce http requests) and minify it (http://minifycss.com ). I minified C5's base.css as well.
And, if you want to get really into it, check out these articles:http://www.onehat.com/blog/2010/03/concrete5-mod-moving-js-to-the-b... (note: if you use this technique, you have to modify how your add-ons link JS files as well so they move to the bottom). I have compiled the files for this mod and placed them in a zip:https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bz5i6n1THnPDYTI3ZTA5NDEtZjMzYi00MDI...
Hope this helps.
Some tips: if you are finished developing your site, enabling the cache will help out a ton. Always a good idea post-production.
Another tip is to upgrade to 5.4.1.1 . The speed is said to have drastically improved. How to upgrade from 5.3.3.1 to 5.4.1.1:http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/installation/upgrading-fr...
You should check out this article about loading jQuery from Google's CDN:http://defunctlife.com/2010/05/slow-speeds-and-speeding-up-concrete...
There's also an add-on in the C5 marketplace that does the jQuery gig automatically for you + more.
You could also combine your CSS into one file (reduce http requests) and minify it (http://minifycss.com ). I minified C5's base.css as well.
And, if you want to get really into it, check out these articles:http://www.onehat.com/blog/2010/03/concrete5-mod-moving-js-to-the-b... (note: if you use this technique, you have to modify how your add-ons link JS files as well so they move to the bottom). I have compiled the files for this mod and placed them in a zip:https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bz5i6n1THnPDYTI3ZTA5NDEtZjMzYi00MDI...
Hope this helps.
Thanks for all the tips.
It's possible that they may have fixed the problem. I spoke to the hosting provider yesterday immediately after I posted this.
Hope so!
Correction: nope it's still intermittently slow. Just took me 13 seconds to load the About page, which is nothing but text.
It's possible that they may have fixed the problem. I spoke to the hosting provider yesterday immediately after I posted this.
Hope so!
Correction: nope it's still intermittently slow. Just took me 13 seconds to load the About page, which is nothing but text.
Thats hosting though if it's intermittent
Can't replicate that, I'm in the UK but site runs very quickly indeed. No slow loads despite "clicking around"
Also... I was wrong. It's NOT every site. It is primarily ONE site. The other sites occasionally operate a little slow when I am adding content through the dashboard, etc. but nothing like this one site in particular.
check it out:http://www.22graphics.com ...if you click on Contact, then About Us, then Promotional Products and back to Contact, etc. (basically just click around a lot), you will eventually see it takes forever to load a simple page like Contact. I was stuck on Contact for a FULL 30 SECONDS!