I have had reports that that my Zen Cart is running slow. I am looking at different modules to see if they might be the source of the problem.

The store is:

Zen Cart 1.3.0.2 with Image Handler 2 1.3 installed. While it works like a dream from the administrators perspective I am getting reports that the page load times are very slow. Sometimes taking over 20 seconds.

Of course the 1st thing I looked at was the compression quality which I set at 100. I display 10 images in my product listings and my larger file size images are about 6k. So 10 x 6 = 60k in product images which doesn't seem to out of line (plus the header images etc.). Below are my Image settings in Zen Cart. Could they be adjusted for better performance (aside from the obvious lower compression quality).

Does IH2 1.3 run some script routines while loading the images that may slow the page load?

Here is the URL:
http://mindworkspress.com

Thank you for your support

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