slow slow slow

my dolphin 7 site seems to run verrrrry slow since i uploaded a couple short videos and some tunes and some pics....is this normal?
Is there some sort of script or something i can speed it up a bit?

thanx

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#topic/How-to-reduce-load-time-of-dolphin-7.htm

i hate to say it but that didnt work...what else could it be? My server?

If you are on a server that always has a high CPU load, then yes, that could cause your website to load slowly.  What hosting provider are you using?  You should ask them to check your website and ask them if it is their machine causing slow load time :D  Good luck!

Prolaznik,

I added the extra code to my .htaccess and it does seem to speed things up a bit.

I have a pretty good idea what this does, but I was hoping maybe you could write a line or two to explain it

I'm sure others would be a lot more keen to add these lines if they knew exactly what they did.

Thanks.  And as far as I've seen, this is still the best solution.

I would like to also know

I read this to night and have install it on my server.. wohoo thats is speed up loading the frontpage very fast. T

thanks.

for the life of me i cant find .htaccess to try it

Are you using a Windows server or Linux?

Yup. It pretty much decreased my site loading time by 4x

Linux

My site loads much much faster now but have a 500 error

You can speed up downloads or web page access time with Apache mod_deflate module. The mod_deflate module provides the DEFLATE output filter that allows output from your server to be compressed before being sent to the client over the network.

This decreases the amount of time and data transmitted over the network, resulting in faster web experience or downloads for visitors.

Make sure mod_deflate included with your Apache server (by default it is now installed with all modern distro).


you can read more about it here :)

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/speed-up-apache-20-web-access-or-downloads-with-mod_deflate.html

ah got it fixed thanks to terabytehosting. now all is fast and smooth :)

DosDawg is da man!

Here's my crazy situation now.

My site seems to run quite fast now (thanks to that .htaccess code from prolaznik) in pretty much all the browsers (still a bit slow in IE though).

However, just today it started taking a very, very long time to log into the site - at least 3 times as long as before.  Sometimes it takes as long as 12 full seconds to log in and see my members page.  I'm sure we can all agree that this is way too long.

Any ideas at all?  My host insist it is not their problem but that I need to "optimize my script".  Please, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Depending on your host type, see if they have a php accelerator or can install one for you.  On my server, dedicated, I have php accelerator installed along with the apache deflate in the httpd.conf and both processing speed and download are very fast.

DOLPHIN 7 REQUIRES A DEDICATED OR VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVER.

Test your site using the TOOL tab of Pingdom.com - Average load time is going to be 22-30 seconds plus. Lots of images, huges CSS and Javascript and more. Images are BASE64 INLINE so you cannot optimize parallel downloading, move to a CDN or other tricks.

Mod_Deflate requires a VPS or Dedicated Server as no Shared Server Host is going to allow you to consume CPU at the rate this website would need to deflate (compress) on the fly.

You can't even use Future Expires Headers effectively due to Avatars all being named ... Avatar bleh :)

I have yet to run pingdom on a single D7 website that wasn't a little piggy. Mod_Deflate is just trading CPU for SOME bandwidth... but not enough to make a huge difference. I hazard to think that any speed increase you see over time is cache related.

Mauricecano, can you PM me your URL so I can test it :)

To be honest, the requirement of a dedicated or virtual private server isn't very accurate. I along with others have done fine on shared environments.

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php

Now before every page view your Webserver compares the file type with the request and if it matches one of the files in teh list it Deflates it before sending (if your browser supports it). Basically, it is ZIPPING up the file, compressing it to reduce bandwidth.

The reason it speeds up Dolphin 7 is because Boonex included a HUGE CSS file and a HUGE JAVASCRIPT file. Combined they are nearly 500Kb alone! Only Mod_Deflate can compress css and js files on the fly, but shared hosting packages more likely than not do not allow mod_deflate due to the enourmous amount of cpu load it generates.

So in a nut shell you are trading server resources for good clean optimized code and server resources are not cheap :) 

What is your pingdom/tools load time? How many users and how many users online simultaneously? Mine runs great too on a shared server, the second time I load the page from a empty cache and with only 2-3 friends on there helping me test :)

Syde

Load times have remained stable on other web sites I have operated that reside on shared web hosting. Unfortunatly, all of my web sites are going under gas for a face-lift after the recent switch from Dolphin 6.1 to 7.0. I'll be sure to provide the numbers when I'm able to.

You can be happy with the speed and it still be slow... the features make it worth the wait :)

The D7 Homepage with the default template takes about 22 seconds to load on a shared server without mod_deflate. If people have it running faster than 20-30 seconds on a shared server I'd like to see it and they can PM me their host info to receive any referral kickbacks because I'll move from Hostgator. But looking at the template and the source, this thing is pretty unwieldy.

take a look at my site  i won't post a link here but if you click on my username there's a link to my site :) compare the load speed and yes it's on shared server godaddy

Not bad! I need to make modifications to mine too. But I would really like to test a default theme on shared hosting to compare against Hostgator

Your Modified Site

Total loading time:11.1 seconds
Total objects:120 (709.7 KB)
External objects:2 (1.3 KB)
(X)HTML:2 (97.5KB)
RSS/XML:0CSS:23 (103.6KB)
Scripts:5 (390.5KB)
Images:90 (118KB)
Plugins:0
Other:0
Redirected:0

My Hostgator Site (Default w/Background Image 4 vid 4 pic 4 music 16 members 4 ads blogs rss news poll)

Total loading time:21.6 seconds
Total objects:68 (987.2 KB)
External objects:0
(X)HTML:2 (293.5KB)
RSS/XML:0CSS:1 (111.8KB)
Scripts:6 (393KB)
Images:59 (188.9KB)
Plugins:0
Other:0
Redirected:1

i don't know how accurate the testing is but if you retest few times you'll see the numbers change
what i do is browse the site and see how it loads

Sure once it caches everything (kinda, avatar and album images are BASE64 INLINE and can't be cached, they are actually embedded in the html ... peek at your page source) its good :) Im worried about that inital hit new visitors have to sit through ... and even worse, the fact that every one or thing that hits the home page is download close to 1MB of bandwidth :)  

What got me working on it was the Google Speed History under Labs in Webmaster Section ... it now says my site is slower than 97% of all websites on the planet :) That puts yours at slower than 50% hehe

thx for the good news :( that means it will get even slower

Nah,  I think it just means there is quite a bit of pruning and revamping of the default templates left to be done. The Boonex guys crammed everything into the kitchen sink then crammed them both into Dolphin7 :)

Syde

Prolaznik, this fix of yours is awsome!!!!

:) Wow!

I've tested it on my site and now it loads much faster than before. Great!

Does clearing cache from admin speed things up.  If so, how often should this be done.

Yes, it does. You should make this especially when intending to do some changes to your website.

You can also manually clean the 'cache' folder in public_html, just leave the .htaccess file.

Here's mine from that site:

Total loading time: 7.8 seconds

Total objects: 113 (1177.3 KB)

External objects: 4 (56.8 KB)

(X)HTML: 4 (166.8KB)

RSS/XML: 0CSS: 3 (121.7KB)

Scripts: 10 (479.1KB)

Images: 96 (409.7KB)

Plugins: 0Other: 0

larger than either sydeburnz and prolaznik's site index.php page.  I use aeaccelerator and have the apache deflate mod installed and configed in the httpd.conf file.

Hey this is fun.  You show me yours and I'll show you mine.