By KahneFan on

I am currently using an extremely slow host for my Drupal site. And, when I look through most Drupal sites in the showcase here, many others are slow as well. I'm assuming this has to do with database speed? I've already found 1 member here who has given me a link to their Drupal site which has an extremely fast load time. So what I'm looking for is for other Drupal members to let us know who you use if you have a fast load time.

Example of a slow load:
My Site (Hosted with GoDaddy)

Example of AWESOME load:
Blamcast by JohnForsythe hosted by AN Hosting

So, if your site has a fast load time, 3 seconds or less preferred, please list your URL for load time sample, as well as your host name. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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prestonso’s picture

prestonso commented

Sometimes it has nothing to do with the host. Depending on the number of modules or components you have installed, load speed can sometimes by heavily affected.
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Web/Print Designer
Monarch Digital, Colorado Springs
My near-dead non-Drupal site

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KahneFan commented

I have 3 sites with different modules and what not and they all load very slow. Actually, if I install a fresh version it still loads very slow.

rosgar’s picture

rosgar commented

because of too many posts/images in your homepage, and getting files from www.pokerhandreplays.com?

KahneFan’s picture

KahneFan commented

Again, it's very slow on my other two sites as well as a fresh install.

prestonso’s picture

prestonso commented

Also, in my experience, GoDaddy is notorious for being a slow host.
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Preston So
Web/Print Designer
Monarch Digital, Colorado Springs
My near-dead non-Drupal site

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Preston So

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KahneFan commented

Which is what I'm finding, and why I'm hoping others here may have faster hosts.

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themphill commented

My Drupal site's home page loads in under three seconds. Hosting is with Pair Networks (their webmaster level shared hosting).

KahneFan’s picture

KahneFan commented

Link? (If you don't mind)

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naheemsays commented

Got a couple of sites set up, both I would think pretty fast. Feel free to disagree, but when I moved over from phpbb for the forums I thought the speed increase was immense.

http://www.theraggedyedge.co.uk and http://www.therevival.co.uk

There are a few things that matter - the number of modules, the amount of graphics, the theme itself and the query speed.

Try having less posts show up on the front page, and make sure you have both css/javascript turned on.

Another question would be about the database tables. While I am not an expert, I have read that innodb is slower than MyISAM (but InnoDB better for integrity), where if you have search enabled, the search tables should definitely be myISAM. Then again, Search is still slow and in most cases less effective than Google.

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1kenthomas commented

http://wimleers.com/article/improving-drupals-page-loading-performance#a...

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KahneFan commented

My site loads a lot faster now. I use RSS feeds/Cron Jobs and I was using the poor mans cron mod because my normal cron wasn't working for some reason. Well, 2 things were happening. 1st, I had about 45 feeds updating every 15 minutes; when 1 feed hung, they all hung and it was a never ending problem which slowed the site down and did not allow my normal crons to run. Since my normal crons weren't running I decided to use poor man's (not knowing the cause). Poor man's slowed my site WAY down, so I turned it off. Then I figured out that moving my refresh rate to 1-2 hours made a HUGE difference and my site now loads faster and I can tell which links are causing problems in my feeds.