slow loading site

[Guest]

please my site, www.pchealth.ie is so seriously slow. i read somewhere that i should turn off category count but i do not know where to do this. can anyone tell me how to do this? or has anyone any idea what to do so the site will load quick? any advise will be appreciated. thanks

[Guest]

I'm curious have you indentified what process on your server is slowing things down? How are you troubleshooting this problem? You should detail your question a little more please.

 

Tim

[kgt]

Basically, there are two different areas that can cause a slow-loading page:

 

1. Server-side processing lag - you have this problem, your page takes somewhere near 4-5 seconds to process.

 

2. Transfer lag (speed of transfer from your webserver to the client browser) - you have this problem as well. (The Wireless Broadband image is 82 K. For a GIF!)

 

Your top bar has a dropdown menu for categories and for manufacturers. Then you have the left column which has basically the same thing. You're not running the categories queries TWICE to create the dropdown and the list, right? That will kill you in speed, as building that list is pretty expensive.

 

Make sure you have caching turned on.

 

Get a thumbnail contribution to make your product images smaller, and do what you can to make the other images smaller as well.