I've had a site up and running for a client for nearly a year. Admittedly, this was the first Drupal site I had attempted to build in quite some time, and it was a huge undertaking. I had been out of the web design game for a while, and the pedals were rusty, to say the least.
After setting up some fairly good systems for the client, and having administered the site this past year, I've noticed things running gradually slower over time, less efficient. I came across some memory limit issues and corrected the problem, but I haven't been able to pinpoint where the performance hit is coming from.
What other issues could be causing this hit in performance? There are a lot of modules installed, and quite a bit of content driving the site, but no more than what I usually see with sites of this sort.
Any help would be appreciated...
Here is a link to the site (please keep in mind this was my first Drupal install in years, and my first attempt at customizing my own theme). http://orangeavenuemusic.com
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First off, great theme! What
First off, great theme! What host are you using? Most of my speed related problems have been host problems, not because of modules that I've installed. Is it shared hosting?
Thanks Dan, took me a while
Thanks Dan, took me a while to figure out some of the quirks, but I had a good time working on it (I'm now using Zen to set up my themes, and having much better luck this way).
As for the host, I moved them over to Hostmonster from a local company that was driving them into the ground financially. I've had a good experience with Hostmonster in the past (they offer really robust features for the price -- I love the Simple Scripts cPanel integration...I know, that's cheating). I have other installations on this same hosting package that work flawlessly -- which is why I jumped to the assumption that there was something amiss.
Thanks for the responses. Still trying to figure out the problem.
One a side not I try to avoid
One a side not I try to avoid using simple scripts in my Cpanel (I have Hostmonster too). They add database prefixes that sometimes mess up module installations.
I found this out the hard
I found this out the hard way, and as a result I don't use Simple Scripts for Drupal installations any longer (or Magento, for that matter). I do, however, find it useful for quick installs of Forums, WP blogs and other nonsense that I tend not to theme too heavily.
I'd recommend you use Google
I'd recommend you use Google Chrome to evaluate the page download times to see what it taking so long. Left click the page and hit inspect element. Then go into the resource tracking section. It shows you download times for all the scripts and images etc, on the page.