Site is Super Slow

[utahlauren]

My site (www.buy-swimwear.com) is running super slowly. I only have about 60 products, and each one has about 6-8 attributes (in two name sets) attached to it. My photos aren't huge or anything, and I'm only running two modules (Module Manager and Advanced X-Sell). I also made sure that my background images are all small and tiled...

Can anyone tell me what could be causing this issue? I alerted my hosting company (FatCow), and they said they fixed something and it should be working. It's still slow...sometimes not even loading.

I should also note that a few days ago I was getting a ton of database memory errors; in response to that, FatCow raised my sql memory limit to 64MB. I haven't had this issue since.

[Kim]

YIKES! The page is huge!

Object type Size (bytes) Download @ 56K (seconds) Download @ T1 (seconds)
HTML: 20637 4.31 0.31
HTML Images: 1457891 294.16 11.32
CSS Images: 231626 46.56 1.63
Total Images: 1689517 340.72 12.95

You need to optimize those images.

[utahlauren]

Wow, okay, thanks for your quick response! Will you show me a thread to help me get started in doing this? I'm assuming it's not as simple as just making the images smaller. I guess I need to create thumbnails and such for the product listings pages? And then link to the large files from the actual product info pages? thanks!

[bunyip]

Grab the Image Handler 2 module from the downloads section - it will do a lot of that work for you

[IGD]

install firefox > install the yslow addon package > go to your site and in the bottom right of your browser click on the YSlow icon, run test and work the list off.

[utahlauren]

Dan--my software engineer boyfriend recommended the same (yslow), and I just installed that plugin and am looking into everything.

Also, I will install the image handler module. thanks everyone!

[Kim]

The physical dimensions of the image will not optimize the file size. If you are using high resolution images, you need to re-save them as lower resolution (72 - 96 DPI) and use your image editor's "save for web" functionality. Photos should be saved a JPEG or jpg and line art as gif.