Concrete is slooooow

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Hi all,

My first post here :)

I've designed a website for a client and got it coded in concrete5 by a programmer. The system is nice but also extremely slow so the client is very unhappy.. :(

The page is: Globusvask.dk

I care very much about my clients so any advice on how to increase the speed would be great!

Best regards, René - Denmark

PS. I'm not a programming professional but it's not all new to me, so just fire away and hopefully I'll understand :)

 
Mnkras replied on at Permalink Reply
Mnkras
is the database on the same server as the files?

if not that can be a huge bottleneck,
guythomas replied on at Permalink Reply
guythomas
Seems like you have very reasonable load times from my location (California). Slowest load time I saw was 2.69 seconds.

-Guy
warpol replied on at Permalink Reply
warpol
Have you enabled caching? This can greatly increase the speed of your site since the server won't have to crunch the php every time- a version of the page is 'snapshotted' and stored for instant serving. Enable it in 'sitewide settings'. Just be aware that you'll need to disable it when you're editing the php of a page (or you won't see the changes take effect until the cache is next updated- every 120 minutes or so by default).
reqon replied on at Permalink Reply
Thank you! That was what i was looking for :D I use caching for my own wordpress pages but couldn't find the function i Concrete5 until now. Also disabled tracking since google analytics is used anyways :)

Thanks for the reply everyone! :)
87up replied on at Permalink Reply
87up
Very nice site. Your programmer must be very skilled. ;)

Nice work on the design too. :)

I can recommend Concrete5 hosting solutions, if you are in need for speed. :)
pakigreenl replied on at Permalink Reply
pakigreenl
Hey your site seems fine, but if you are able to install APC on your server it will speed things up tremendously. If not, the front end version of that would be PHPSpeedy seehttp://aciddrop.com/php-speedy/...
APC is a cache program and phpspeedy is a compression program.
reqon replied on at Permalink Reply
Got the issue fixed by moving to a new and more professional host :) But thank you very much for the input! Might use the trick in the future for bigger sites :)