Site slow & login gives a "page not found"
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Hello,
Our site which has been up for over a year and a half is now very very slow and when we try to login we get a "page not found" once the login credentials have been submitted.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Our site which has been up for over a year and a half is now very very slow and when we try to login we get a "page not found" once the login credentials have been submitted.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Is there a URL we could have a look at?
http://www.empowertherapy.ca/
You are correct. That is very slow. I can't see anything unusual about your site. It seems pretty typical content-wise so I'm thinking it's an overloaded server. Where are you hosting the site? Is it on Dreamhost?
The only thing I see is that banner3.jpg is 450k so I would suggest compressing that image down but that won't solve the speed issue since it's slow even on pages that don't render large images.
I don't think clearing the cache will help but you can clear the cache manually by going to [root]/files/cache/ and deleting the contents of the cache (but make sure you leave an empty 'cache' folder)
Upgrading the site to 5.6.2.1 will help the speed a bit but I still think you will be unhappy and with the site so slow, you will not be able to upgrade it. The upgrade script will fail.
I believe it's an overloaded host. It's taking over 30 seconds for the 'time to first byte' and when you try to log in, what is likely happening is that the time limit is being exceeded (possibly 60 seconds) and the site is 'timing out'. Try timing the gap between your login attempt and the time it crashes. Is it pretty consistent around 30 seconds or 60 seconds?
The only thing I see is that banner3.jpg is 450k so I would suggest compressing that image down but that won't solve the speed issue since it's slow even on pages that don't render large images.
I don't think clearing the cache will help but you can clear the cache manually by going to [root]/files/cache/ and deleting the contents of the cache (but make sure you leave an empty 'cache' folder)
Upgrading the site to 5.6.2.1 will help the speed a bit but I still think you will be unhappy and with the site so slow, you will not be able to upgrade it. The upgrade script will fail.
I believe it's an overloaded host. It's taking over 30 seconds for the 'time to first byte' and when you try to log in, what is likely happening is that the time limit is being exceeded (possibly 60 seconds) and the site is 'timing out'. Try timing the gap between your login attempt and the time it crashes. Is it pretty consistent around 30 seconds or 60 seconds?
Is there any other waty to access the site cache, since i can't seem to get past the login page?
You need to optimise you images, the one slide I looked at, is way to big (313Kb). You do not have gzip working or cache validators.
Try using page speed for help and put the following code in your .htaccess file.
Try using page speed for help and put the following code in your .htaccess file.
<FilesMatch "\.(js|css|html|htm|php|xml)$"> SetOutputFilter DEFLATE </FilesMatch> <IfModule mod_expires.c> # Enable expirations ExpiresActive On # Default directive ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month" # My favicon ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year” # Images ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
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I whole-heartedly agree with these ideas but even if he gains 50% in speed with these techniques, it's still an unacceptable 15 second "Time to First Byte".
Yes it is dreamhost and it is a server side issue. Thanks for your responses.
