By Sc0tt on

Thank you in advance for any suggestions on this.

After the initial long load time, subsequent loads are more reasonable at around 7-10 seconds; but still a bit long.

Can anyone recommend a better tool or method to analyze what is taking the initial load so long?

I've used the optimazation analyzer tool at http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/index.html
to compair my current site versus my new site and they are not that different.

I do have the following warning in my status:
Mime Detection Browser & Extension
MimeDetect is using the browser supplied mime type or file extension lookups. It is strongly recommended that you install and configure the PHP FileInfo Extension or the UNIX 'file' command to provide more accurate severside mime type detection.

Please see the live sites for yourself:
Current Drupal 4.7 website does just fine at:
http://www.fillmoregazette.com
New Drupal 5.7 website initial load is very long (especially on IE7): http://www.newsite.fillmoregazette.com

Scott
PS. I'm using MySQL database 4.1.22, PHP 5.2.5, Apache/1.3.37 (Unix)

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vm commented

I didn't notice a speed difference between bother sites, they voth loaded pretty quick on IE7

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Sc0tt commented

within the past month or so. Could you still have something cached?

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vm commented

I've never visited your site until I checked the links in this thread.

you can use the devel.module to help debug if you so choose. Slow querries and such.
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Sc0tt commented

Thanks...will give Devel module a try.

Signed,
VeryConfused (very confused why the website is loading ok for you and not for anyone here in southern California.)

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davemybes commented

I'm up in Montreal, and the 4.7 site is blazingly fast, while the 5.7 is a touch slower, but still pretty fast - less than 5 seconds to load the page. What sort of server are you running those sites on (or hosting company if its shared hosting)?
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Sc0tt commented

Thanks for taking a look. Its shared hosting from a company called siteground.com

I'm baffled. My house, my girlfriends house, and all the machines in the office are taking a good minute on the first load after the Temporary Internet Files are deleted in IE6 and IE7.

I'll have to try it on some other computer around town.

Thanks again for the reply.
Scott

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luckyday13 commented

Just wondering if you had any success or at least diagnosed the issue with your load time? It seems that our site seems to be having similar issues and is apparently getting worse. Our site is a Drupal 5 site, shared hosting situation with Netfirms, MySQL 5.0.24, PHP 5. I have the same MimeDetect error also, if that is related to the issue.

Both of your sites appeared to load now reasonably quickly for me.

Thanks for any assistance.
Rob

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Sc0tt commented

For me, the problem seems more related to IE. FF loads pages much faster. I'm currently looking into if i'm doing some kind of IE specific "No-No" with CSS or node-tpl file. I will post my findings as soon as I have any luck.

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luckyday13 commented

We changed hosts from the shared host (Netfirms) to a VPS and the performance difference has been astonishing. Everything is working so well now. Pages that were taking a minute or more to load are now taking less than 5 seconds. So for us, the performance was certainly tied directly to the host. Lesson learned, you get what you pay for I suppose. Thanks for the reply back and good luck getting things sorted out.

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Sc0tt commented

Tables. tables are the devil in IE because nothing is displayed until all elements (text, images) within the table are completely downloaded. I made the worst mistake you can make by using one large table as a wrapper. I'm in the process of converting my layout using all div's.

Scott
PS. I'm using...
Drupal v5.7
MySQL v4.1.22
PHP v5.2.5
Apache v1.3.37 (Unix)
url www.fillmoregazette.com