Super-Slow site loading?

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My site, located at
http://www.cyclopscomputers.com...

The home page takes forever to load for me, and I can't figure out why. It's not like I have a lot of content, and I also don't have anything which should even impact the speed at all.

I've cleared and reset the cache, enabled and disabled server compression, to no avail.

Any ideas?

Thanks :D

 
myFullFlavour replied on at Permalink Reply
myFullFlavour
Is it shared hosting? If so, with who?
Is the database server on the same box as the rest of your site (a common cause of problems)
danstheman7 replied on at Permalink Reply
Yes, it's shared hosting. If by database you mean MySQL databases, then yes, they are on the same 'box'.
adamjohnson replied on at Permalink Reply
adamjohnson
Seems plenty fast to me, but you should check out the "Concrete on Steroids" thread if this is a non-commercial site. It will optimize the CSS & JS and make your site load faster.
okapi replied on at Permalink Reply
okapi
My impression is, that only the first page is loading slowly. All subsequently called pages are loading quite fast.
This seems to be a similar problem as described in this thread:

http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/why-is-fir...

I can highly recommend Phallanx's approach of optimization:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/chat/concrete-on-steroids...

It works nicely for me!
Steevb replied on at Permalink Reply
Steevb
Hi danstheman7,

You have several issues, but site loads fine for me.

Try the FF SP Yslow test.

There are a few things to change.
danstheman7 replied on at Permalink Reply
Running the test after setting up the "Concrete on Steroids" files got me up to an 83 grade (B).

It suggested using a CDN (too difficult in this case), as well as make fewer HTTP requests, and to add "Expires Headers".

To be perfectly honest, I have no clue how to do any of that.
okapi replied on at Permalink Reply
okapi
@danstheman7:
just a small note regarding the html source of your site: the last closing div tag before the closing body tag is redundant and should be removed.
danstheman7 replied on at Permalink Reply
Thanks for the tip, does it look good now?
okapi replied on at Permalink Reply
okapi
not really... i've sent you a PM, not to get off-topic here...
Michael
ericwright17 replied on at Permalink Reply
ericwright17
It loaded in about 5 seconds for me... Try clearing your browser cache.
okapi replied on at Permalink Reply
okapi
5 seconds is actually quite a time.