How fast am I?

Hi

Tomorrow I am finally standing up to my hosts (gulp :blink:).
Do you guys mind checking my site and give me your opinion about the speed that it loads.
Do I need to optimise some more or is it mainly my host?

Tina
http://www.waveneybooks.co.uk

I would say it has almost nothing to do with your host and virtually everything to do with your image sizes - so hold off on that call until you've done more work! Reading this is a good start - or install Image Handler 2.

Thumbnails at 17kb are about 10x bigger than they should be in terms of file size.

Take a look at http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.waveneybooks.co.uk/shop/ for a speed (or lack of it) assessment.

I second ryk's assessment of your images....once this is accomplished...You might also enable gzip in the admin

Thanks Guys. The only problem is that if I make the thumbnails any smaller, the large image is obviously pixellated rubbish. I only have one images folder, not small, med & lge as others do.
Off to work. Have a good day everyone, Tina

You won't be able to blame your host because you haven't used the correct ZC methodology for your images!

And if you don't want to take the time to do it that way, do as I suggested and install Image Handler.

I only have one images folder, not small, med & lge as others do.Did you delete them?

You can create them again and/or use IH2

You won't be able to blame your host because you haven't used the correct ZC methodology for your images!

I can as i paid for them to set it up and bought the whole package as a ready-made shop.

waveny, are in cpanel is sever load still showing as over 10 and 15 consistintly?

waveneybooks:

I can as i paid for them to set it up and bought the whole package as a ready-made shop.

So you're saying that the host is the one who's added all your images? From the look of the previous post, I take it you're hosted with Camelot...and somehow, I just don't see Merlinpa making that sort of basic ZC error. :wink2:

Hi Merlin
Sorry, mate, don't understand what you are saying, I'll contact you a bit later by p.m. (if that's OK). I won't be continuing with this thread because of the comments by Ryk.
Also Merlin, if you don't mimd, could you put Ryk straight as to who my host is (not Camelot, I wish they were).

Thanks anyway to those who gave constructive critisism and advice.
Tina

I'm not at all sure how you've come to take offence - you've had a very straight answer to your site's problem, namely that the image filesizes are too large and need optimising.

I pointed you at exactly the place to learn about how to do it "by the book" - and offered an alternative solution (i.e. instal ImageHandler) to make your life easier. Your response of "if I make the thumbnails any smaller etc" suggested that YOU were the one managing your images, and if that's the case, then neither your host nor the person who built your site (whoever they are and whether or not they are the same person/company) are responsible.

If, on the other hand, someone else IS completely responsible for building your site, then yes, it is up to them to rectify this issue.

Now - if it's any consolation, I too was utterly confused by Merlinpa's comment :D and I now see who your host is; as it happens, I have recently been engaged to help develop another store hosted by them, and as far as I can recall before I upgraded it to 1.3.6, all the image directories were where they were supposed to be...so you should have images, images/medium and images/large in your site directory.

The fact remains that your site is slow loading because of the images. Somebody needs to fix it or you've wasted your money in setting it up, because customers will not wait for the pages to open. No offence intended!!

hey ryk,

I dont know if they have different servers but when the single CPU server load was consistently over 15 that might also have alot to do with it,
Yes the images need optomized but in this case so does the server.

Understood - but there's 15 images totalling 244KB and that DEFINITELY has a lot to do with it! :wink2: