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Hi,
I've been wanting to try out concrete. And as a test I made a temporary page on http://www.mush-room.be
The problem is that it loads for 5 to 10 seconds.. eventhough the entire page is not larger than 5KB.
Now, the second time I load the page it takes only but a second, maybe two. So I believe it has something to do with caching? Although i've checked those in System & Settings and all caching is turned on.
I've asked a friend (with another internet provider, cause I thought it might just be my connection) to test it, and he has the same problem.
Are there maybe any settings that I still have to change or.. ? I'm kinda lost here. If it takes up to 10seconds for a 5KB website, I don't even want to know how long it will take when there's 100+ pages on it.. Also, it's not just the live site that loads slow. The backend, admin panel, loads equally slow. Going from System & Settings to Pages & Themes for example, takes about 3 to 4 seconds to load. This makes me think it's just a concrete 5 problem?
I've hosted multiple websites before on my current webhost and something like this never occured. I've also asked them if they've noticed any problems, but alas.. nothing.
I would greatly appreciate any help. I would love to continue with concrete, but it's gonna be a tough cookie with these loading times..
Kind regards,
Robin
I've been wanting to try out concrete. And as a test I made a temporary page on http://www.mush-room.be
The problem is that it loads for 5 to 10 seconds.. eventhough the entire page is not larger than 5KB.
Now, the second time I load the page it takes only but a second, maybe two. So I believe it has something to do with caching? Although i've checked those in System & Settings and all caching is turned on.
I've asked a friend (with another internet provider, cause I thought it might just be my connection) to test it, and he has the same problem.
Are there maybe any settings that I still have to change or.. ? I'm kinda lost here. If it takes up to 10seconds for a 5KB website, I don't even want to know how long it will take when there's 100+ pages on it.. Also, it's not just the live site that loads slow. The backend, admin panel, loads equally slow. Going from System & Settings to Pages & Themes for example, takes about 3 to 4 seconds to load. This makes me think it's just a concrete 5 problem?
I've hosted multiple websites before on my current webhost and something like this never occured. I've also asked them if they've noticed any problems, but alas.. nothing.
I would greatly appreciate any help. I would love to continue with concrete, but it's gonna be a tough cookie with these loading times..
Kind regards,
Robin
Hi all
new install of elemental (http://test5742.webiflex.co.uk/... ) on shared hosting withhttp://www.siteground.com/ results :
1.https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights...
Reduce server response time . In our test, your server responded in 5.1 seconds.
2.http://www.webpagetest.org/
1789 ms First Byte Time
315 ms Target First Byte Time
3.http://tools.pingdom.com/
No issue's ??
No idea why results vary but main concern is google insights results and no idea how to reduce.
new install of elemental (http://test5742.webiflex.co.uk/... ) on shared hosting withhttp://www.siteground.com/ results :
1.https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights...
Reduce server response time . In our test, your server responded in 5.1 seconds.
2.http://www.webpagetest.org/
1789 ms First Byte Time
315 ms Target First Byte Time
3.http://tools.pingdom.com/
No issue's ??
No idea why results vary but main concern is google insights results and no idea how to reduce.
Hi Robin,
I am running 5 Concrete5 Websites and I am experiencing the same problems as you do.
I spent hours with googling, optimizing, different cache settings, turning of the cache..
What I so far found is:
- First load mostly seems to be slower than the following requests (Kinda seems, that the page is in a sleep mode and needs to wake up..I even tried a Ping service to keep the site awake, but it didn't help so much)
- Time to first Byte seems to be really high compared with other websites
- My Hosters did not report any problems
- It seems to be different for websites hosted with the same hoster, the one website feels faster.
Bottom Line is, I could not find any good reason, why my pages are sometimes really slow..I started to think, that it is maybe just concrete5, which does to much stuff on the initial page load...
I am running 5 Concrete5 Websites and I am experiencing the same problems as you do.
I spent hours with googling, optimizing, different cache settings, turning of the cache..
What I so far found is:
- First load mostly seems to be slower than the following requests (Kinda seems, that the page is in a sleep mode and needs to wake up..I even tried a Ping service to keep the site awake, but it didn't help so much)
- Time to first Byte seems to be really high compared with other websites
- My Hosters did not report any problems
- It seems to be different for websites hosted with the same hoster, the one website feels faster.
Bottom Line is, I could not find any good reason, why my pages are sometimes really slow..I started to think, that it is maybe just concrete5, which does to much stuff on the initial page load...
On first load, it didn't take 5 to 10s for me and I am on a slow connexion.
Use a web page test to help with errors: http://www.webpagetest.org/
You have a call for a 'favicon' that does not exist, that slows things down a lot.
Use 'gzip' and optimise content delivery with your 'htaccess' file.
You have a call for a 'favicon' that does not exist, that slows things down a lot.
Use 'gzip' and optimise content delivery with your 'htaccess' file.
After uploading a favicon, I have tested it again. Speed increased significantly. Loaded in about a second.
The weird thing is though, when I used webpagetest.com before, it told me my site loaded in 0.9s. Even though that was not the case at all. Not at my house, not at my friends' house, not at work. All on different computers and different connections. It took them all about 5 - 10 seconds to load.
Anyway, the problem seems to have been resolved by just adding a favicon. On the Live site that is. When I log in as admin, the backend part of the website still loads incredibly slow.
The weird thing is though, when I used webpagetest.com before, it told me my site loaded in 0.9s. Even though that was not the case at all. Not at my house, not at my friends' house, not at work. All on different computers and different connections. It took them all about 5 - 10 seconds to load.
Anyway, the problem seems to have been resolved by just adding a favicon. On the Live site that is. When I log in as admin, the backend part of the website still loads incredibly slow.
Your site is loading in .5s to 1s. Which is considered very fast. For a site in Europe, the speed to US cities is very good.
Examples:
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/d9IM6G/http://www.mush-room.be/... - 905ms - New York City, USA
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/bGGGvN/http://www.mush-room.be/... - 471ms - Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150409_H5_FFH/... - 752ms - Virginia, USA