need help to make my site to load faster? - Page 2

**Hades** · 07-06-2009, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by tunedTECH

OH so i should host all the pics from my own web hosting instead of using other host like photobucket?

About the 4wheelsnews.com, quantserve which one part in my page this thing related? so i can fix it.

Photobucket is supposed to have a fast high end server and therefore have a fast download on the client browsers, but try to use your own host whenever possible.

As for 3wheelsnews, quantserve, I'm not sure exactly when they are used, I suggest you install the firebug plugin on your Firefox, and it will show you a list of elements (in the network tab), and it will also show you how many seconds each element took to load. Analyze it one by one and after a few hours of work you should have it loading a lot faster.

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Originally Posted by tunedTECH

How come i see other Car blog site has a very long homepage than mine and their site still load faster compare to mine. example site i am talking about is Beyonddotca

That blog stores images in its own host, it doesn't use photobucket or any other image server, also that blog doesn't show any youtube video in the homepage. Remember, try to put as much stuff as possible in your own hosting.

Also their page might be faster to load because it has less code.
HTML - That blog has 700 lines of HTML while yours is over 1000.
CSS - They have 600 lines of css in the main stylesheet, you have over 1300.
other loaded files - I saw that you are including a lot of .css and .js files on the homepage for WP plugins.

I'd suggest you do the following things:
-store your images in your server, but making sure that it has a good transfer rate, if not, just stick to photobucket.
-optimize your code, use only the .css and that you need on each page, you don't need to load all the .css for every plugin of your wp if you only use a few.
-try to make the html code simpler and shorter.

It's not easy, I know mate. But don't be afraid of spending hours of work in your website

**Muddy** · 07-06-2009, 09:02 PM

Moved to Coding for greater exposure per Hades' good suggestion.

moni · 07-06-2009, 09:57 PM

The total size of your main page is 1424940 bytes...and you have 84images there...10 external css style sheets and over 20 external script files. Heh, if i was to guess I'd say all that combines is your problem, doubt it's your host.

Edit: re reading this thread I noticed Hades pointed out what I mentioned, credit goes to him if it gets fixed

sorry about that Hades just dint notice there was a second page of posts!

tunedTECH · 07-07-2009, 09:04 AM

ahhh man i thought after finishing this site is the end but i guess im still missing alot

Can anyone here help me how to do the following or anything that i really need for my site to make it load faster?

-store your images in your server, but making sure that it has a good transfer rate, if not, just stick to photobucket.
-optimize your code, use only the .css and that you need on each page, you don't need to load all the .css for every plugin of your wp if you only use a few.
-try to make the html code simpler and shorter.

Really appreciate it guys

nasty.web · 07-09-2009, 02:27 PM

I guess, you might be interested in these resources:
http://www.kevinleary.net/testing-pa...-with-firebug/
http://code.google.com/speed/page-sp...les_intro.html

kamm · 07-10-2009, 05:32 AM

You should have a look at your site in Firefox with the Firebug addon installed...

This will give you a very good idea of what's slowing things down...

Oops - Sorry - only just noticed that nasty.web above had already recommended Firebug

tunedTECH · 07-10-2009, 09:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kamm

You should have a look at your site in Firefox with the Firebug addon installed...

This will give you a very good idea of what's slowing things down...

Oops - Sorry - only just noticed that nasty.web above had already recommended Firebug

Yes i have downloaded that firebug on my firefox and i can see all my code etc. but how can i tell which code slow down my site?

tunedTECH · 07-10-2009, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by nasty.web

I guess, you might be interested in these resources:
http://www.kevinleary.net/testing-pa...-with-firebug/
http://code.google.com/speed/page-sp...les_intro.html

Hey i did this http://www.kevinleary.net/testing-pa...-with-firebug/

and i found many not modified and not found on my site?

and i see some are OK? but really i dont know what this suppose to mean?

**Hades** · 07-10-2009, 09:50 AM

on the Net panel.
Check this guide on how to use firebug:
http://www.litfuel.net/plush/?postid=161

Capo64 · 07-10-2009, 02:09 PM

I'd suggest downloading YSlow for FireBug and go to http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/smu****/ for your images.

There was some presentation that a guy from Yahoo! did that showed something like 75% of load time being front-end. So optimizing your front-end (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Image Size, etc.) is really important.

Use gzip if your server supports it. Search Google for this stuff if you don't know what it is.

**Brandon Sheley** · 07-10-2009, 03:33 PM

I would also suggest cleaning up the code, you have 100 validation errors
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0
this will slow your page down as well

ps. I want that corvette ZR1