Product Pages loading slowly

[athena]

Yes, I agree as I've seen no pattern there. I've recorder parse times of 2.7 with a large variety of Query numbers from 216 to 488.

I do see now that the few items we have with attributes are even slower....from 6.4 no attributes, to 16.7 w/ attributes in the same category....but that 6.4 is bad enough.

[kobra]

Your host needs to tune your server - specifically the apache section

[athena]

The host spent a lot of time looking with me at the server settings etc. and said everything looks good but my page load times. I'm mystified but realize after skipping through the showcase of zencarts that the product pages are loading instantly for others, so it is something I've done to the cart...must be.

I'll attempt a clean install on my hosts Linux server AGAIN....sigh.... and see if rebuilding the site completely with the newest mods and 1.5 solves the issues. Still appreciate any insights...but will post back when I solve this.

[philip937]

The host spent a lot of time looking with me at the server settings etc. and said everything looks good but my page load times. I'm mystified but realize after skipping through the showcase of zencarts that the product pages are loading instantly for others, so it is something I've done to the cart...must be.

I'll attempt a clean install on my hosts Linux server AGAIN....sigh.... and see if rebuilding the site completely with the newest mods and 1.5 solves the issues. Still appreciate any insights...but will post back when I solve this.

Before you go rebuilding have you checked that this is nut a template issue by seeing if the same happens if you set the default template temporarily?

[schoolboy]

While you clearly "love" your host, I don't think the feeling is reciprocal...

Time for you to go host where the provider knows eCommerce, and has the capacity to host it.

I worry about hosts that still advocate WINDOZE servers for programs that are better-off on LINUX.

I would sooner host sites on my microwave oven than trust a windoze server.

[athena]

Template change is an interesting idea, but i believe I'm just using the default...at least there is only one choice under Admin > Tools > Template Selection and that is for 1.3.9h Classic Contemporary Green

[schoolboy]

Before you go rebuilding have you checked that this is nut a template issue by seeing if the same happens if you set the default template temporarily?

As the default is being used as the actual (bad mistake), there is no way to do this diagnostic...

[philip937]

Template change is an interesting idea, but i believe I'm just using the default...at least there is only one choice under Admin > Tools > Template Selection and that is for 1.3.9h Classic Contemporary Green

If you are using the default then you have made a lot of changes to the default theme as your site is blue etc.. If you have made changes without creating a YOUR_TEMPLATE theme then you won't be able to revert to default to test if its something you have done..

[schoolboy]

The site is taking ages to load on my browser(s) (I tried in firefox, chrome and MSIE). Interestingly, the HTML part of your site is loading quite quickly.

My guess is that it's primarily a server issue... Not handling the complex functions of php >>> mySql very efficiently.

[schoolboy]

Why not get some hosting on another provider (linux) and creating a full CLONE of the webshop, and loading it onto that server... ?

That's what I would do.

If you need (free) temp hosting to do the test, PM me... I have a very fast server (one of the fastest in the UK)... All you will need is a "spare" domain name... or I could put it into a sub-directory on one of my domains.