Is my site slow because I'm using redone classic template?

[angelanger]

My webpage www.populuxebooks.com takes an average of 6 to 8 seconds to load. I've searched the forums and tried different tips and suggestions to enable it to speed up but nothing has helped. My hosting company is dreamhost and their latest report says that both servers are running well.

Is it possible that in revising the classic template I have done something incorrect that causes the lag? The admin area is slow as well.

I know this is a problem that is hard to track down but any help would be appreciated.

[Kim]

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/s...luxebooks.com/

Optimize your images and that will make a huge difference.

[angelanger]

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/s...luxebooks.com/

Optimize your images and that will make a huge difference.

I've made all the images 16k or less and load time is still the same.

Is there any way to check and see if it's zen cart or if it's the server? At least that way I could narrow the problem down.

I still get that warning from the web page speed report about image size but it gives the same warning to many differant web pages including the main page of this forum, all of which load at normal speed.

[DrByte]

What stats do you see in your page footer if you turn on Admin->Configuration->Logging->Display The Page Parse Time ?

[angelanger]

It's turned on now.

Parse Time: 2.375 - Number of Queries: 210 - Query Time: -1.5933552147675

edit: parse time goes up to 3.8 or so at times

[angelanger]

Some pages go up to 9.8 for a parse time.

[kobra]

16k for a thumbnail is still much larger than required for a small image....and 16k times 10 pictures plus other items is getting large but this still should load relatively fast.

[angelanger]

Ok then, I can make them super small size if there's a way to get rid of the "larger image" picture in the product description.

[DrByte]

If you truly want to not see that image on the product page, then you can edit the template to remove it:
/includes/templates/YOURTEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php
approx line 52 contains:

   require($template->get_template_dir('/tpl_modules_main_product_image.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_main_product_image.php'); ?>

Simply put two slashes in front of it, like this:

//  require($template->get_template_dir('/tpl_modules_main_product_image.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_main_product_image.php'); ?>

That will cause it to skip displaying the image.


If you would rather that the image was displayed elsewhere on the page, you could move the section of code elsewhere within the file:

<!--bof Main Product Image -->
<?php
  if (zen_not_null($products_image)) {
  ?>
<?php
/**
 * display the main product image
 */
   require($template->get_template_dir('/tpl_modules_main_product_image.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_main_product_image.php'); ?>
<?php
  }
?>
<!--eof Main Product Image-->

If you simply wanted the image to display smaller, you could change the size of the "medium" image in Admin->Configuration->Images

[angelanger]

ok, i've made all the images on the front page 2k or less except for the header which is 16k. Load time is still slow. Is there any other suggestions floating around that I can try out?

DrByte, I'm unsure what the parse times show, could you let me know if it shows something that I can do to help the site?