New online coin store - comments wanted

[jiggy361]

Hello,

Already launched a live store (www.alexgutman.com) but still trying to improve and would love some good feedback. I still plan to do SEO and convert tables to css and optimize code. But other than that, I would love to get some opinions on the layout and functionality of the store as it stands now and maybe what I could add or change to improve things.

 

Thanks!! Alex Gutman Coins

[FalseDawn]

Painfully, painfully, slow and I'm on 4MB cable.

 

Check out:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

 

 

You need to turn on Gzip compression and vastly reduce your image sizes (kb, not physical screen size) - a thumbnail contribution of some sort would be needed.

 

Turning off category counts will also help improve speed.

 

Otherwise, it looks quite tastefully done - sort out the speed issues and I'll give it a proper review.

[jiggy361]

Painfully, painfully, slow and I'm on 4MB cable.

 

Check out:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

You need to turn on Gzip compression and vastly reduce your image sizes (kb, not physical screen size) - a thumbnail contribution of some sort would be needed.

 

Turning off category counts will also help improve speed.

 

Otherwise, it looks quite tastefully done - sort out the speed issues and I'll give it a proper review.

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Yeah, thats one of the issues that bothers me most. I do have thumbnail contributions..the largest image is 16kb (thats for each coin thumb). The rest of the images on the index are tiny (3kb or smaller). The largest file is the index and js for the menu. Perhaps my server is slow.

[jiggy361]

Wow.. I just enabled Gzip... from 250kb to 6.5kb - AMAZING

 

I can see the dowload speed increase significantly, but does anyone know if the processing time to unzip and render the page will be of any signficance?

[FalseDawn]

Well, even 16kb is a little on the hefty size. Also, I assume your tabs at the top are images, too.

You get what you pay for with server hosting, although unless you've really been penny-pinching, you can get a perfectly good shared host for c. $10 a month.

 

A cache contribution might be worth investigating, and some sort of debugging tool to run locally so you can check your queries and optimize them.

[FalseDawn]

The unzipping overhead is insignificant compared to the gains.

Remember though - Gzip only compresses the page source (i.e. HTML) - it doesn't touch the images, and if your host has poor bandwidth supply, this will be the main bottleneck.

[jiggy361]

The unzipping overhead is insignificant compared to the gains.

Remember though - Gzip only compresses the page source (i.e. HTML) - it doesn't touch the images, and if your host has poor bandwidth supply, this will be the main bottleneck.

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Thanks, the gzip was very helpful. I will look into caching and optimizing a bit later. Right now I want to get feedback on functionality and layout. I want to know if there are things that don't work right or don't look good. Also I would love criticism on the checkout pages and all that. Please dont hesitate to make an account if you would like to give me feedback :)

[FalseDawn]

"An error occured with the USPS shipping calculations.

If you prefer to use USPS as your shipping method, please contact the store owner

"

 

Can't get by first stage.

 

Haven't received my "welcome" Email yet - you might want to make sure this is working (unless you've deliberately turned it off!)

 

I would look at the speed issues first, if I were you - there's no point having a nice looking store and checkout if people throw their arms up in despair at the slowness and leave...

[jiggy361]

Thanks, the gzip was very helpful.  I will look into caching and optimizing a bit later.  Right now I want to get feedback on functionality and layout. I want to know if there are things that don't work right or don't look good.  Also I would love criticism on the checkout pages and all that. Please dont hesitate to make an account if you would like to give me feedback :)

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Welcome e-mail should come (actually, often hotmail stuffs @alexgutman.com emails into spam if your spam block is set medium or high..it might be there)

 

the USPS shipping module will not work if you put in a fake zip code, maybe ill get the state/zip code mismatch contribution to deal with that...but i can't forsee that happening if the customer is using a real address

[FalseDawn]

the USPS shipping module will not work if you put in a fake zip code.

 

Hmmm, that's a bit nasty - you really need a better message then - someone might easily mistype their zip or something and not have a clue what's going on.

I'd already checked spam for the Email - still haven't got it...

[jiggy361]

I just now installed the page cache contribution

I don't know if it will affect anyone that is currently viewing the store

[jiggy361]

I have many redundant queries, but I am not sure whats generating them or how to optimize them. Can anyone help:

 

[QUERIES] => Array

(

[0] => select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from configuration

[1] => select value from sessions where sesskey = '80c2a86b5a04090708a5a05f46ed1ac8' and expiry > '1117563550'

[2] => select code, title, symbol_left, symbol_right, decimal_point, thousands_point, decimal_places, value from currencies

[3] => delete from whos_online where time_last_click < '1117562650'

[4] => select count(*) as count from whos_online where session_id = '80c2a86b5a04090708a5a05f46ed1ac8'

[5] => update whos_online set customer_id = '0', full_name = 'Guest', ip_address = '67.124.239.236', time_last_click = '1117563550', last_page_url = '/store/index.php' where session_id = '80c2a86b5a04090708a5a05f46ed1ac8'

[6] => select specials_id from specials where status = '1' and now() >= expires_date and expires_date > 0

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[111] => update counter set counter = '29019'

[112] => select count(*) as total from sessions where sesskey = '80c2a86b5a04090708a5a05f46ed1ac8'

[113] => update sessions set expiry = '1117564991', value = 'cart|O:12:\"shoppingcart\":5:{s:8:\"contents\";a:0:{}s:5:\"total\";i:0;s:6:\"weight\";i:0;s:6:\"cartID\";N;s:12:\"content_type\";b:0;}language|s:7:\"english\";languages_id|s:1:\"1\";currency|s:3:\"USD\";navigation|O:17:\"navigationhistory\":2:{s:4:\"path\";a:1:{i:0;a:4:{s:4:\"page\";s:9:\"index.php\";s:4:\"mode\";s:3:\"SSL\";s:3:\"get\";a:0:{}s:4:\"post\";a:0:{}}}s:8:\"snapshot\";a:0:{}}' where sesskey = '80c2a86b5a04090708a5a05f46ed1ac8'

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[FalseDawn]

There's a thread in the tips and tricks about optimization - it's not an easy task, unfortunately - and this isn't the right forum to discuss it.

 

I've seen stores with worse query counts that run a lot faster.

 

It seems like you are on a really crappy host, to be honest.

If you want, PM me with details about your host and I'll give you some recommendations.

[celiaak]

Wow! I like the COIN IS SOLD Feature!

The page it is still charging slow.

 

On shipping policies you could state wether you ship wprldwide or not.

 

C?lia

[jiggy361]

Anything else? anyone else?

[Guest]

I have a bucket of coins (assorted foreign and old UK). I'm not a collector and just shove any dud change I get into that collection.. A nice thing to have.

 

Please don't take me wrong in telling you how to operate your business or anything, but I reckon you could do a lot worse than offering a facility for people to sell their old coins (which you can then put back onto your site for sale)...

 

Saves you ever running out of stock and it doubles your market (buyers and sellers).

 

Just a suggestion. :)

 

I like the store.

Your logo is friendly looking, I like your replacements for the stock images (contact us and shipping etc).. The colours are easy on the eye and your category header boxes are really easy to read. A good job overall.

 

Speaking of your category headers, what was the mod (if any) you used for those (assigning a different header for each box and replacing the nasty tiny arrow for the really easy to read text)? I've been looking for something like that myself.

 

Nice job and good luck,

S/

[Barido]

Some of the style and content is blatantly ripped from Smart Marine. You may want to get rid of this page for a start.