By jimh009 on

Hello,

My first drupal site is up and going now, formatting wise.

However, most likely due to all the CSS, the first page to be displayed on the site (if you haven't visited it before and thus do not have the CSS cached), is very slow. Last time I tried to open up the first page, it took 17 whopping seconds for the first page to display! All other pages then displayed almost immediately.

Thus, my question is, what can be done (or what have I done wrong), to vastly increase the speed at which the first page is displayed to new visitors who have nothing cached of my site? Am I missing a setting somewhere perhaps??

Thanks

Jim

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

A URL to you site would help others gauge the loading time.

jimh009’s picture

jimh009 commented

Yeah, I guess that would be helpful. :)

www.teadiscussion.com

It's still a work in progress, so don't expect anything too fancy yet.

wellsy’s picture

wellsy commented

Broadband connection in Australia seemed to load fine.

No problems I suspect.

Maybe your isp is the problem

wellsy

orchidsonline.com.au

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

is fine and snappy as well.

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silverwing’s picture

silverwing commented

(and I mean a really, really bad connection with dial-up) from Washington State was fine.

silverwing

gdip’s picture

gdip commented

via ADSL from Sweden too!

micha_1977’s picture

micha_1977 commented

so id call this site "fast" :-)

-micha
work in progress with Drupal 4.6: langmi.de

Marco Palmero’s picture

Marco Palmero commented

you have no probs its fast!

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Maniac8888’s picture

Maniac8888 commented

nevermind.

jimh009’s picture

jimh009 commented

Thank you everyone. It's good to know that this site template isn't slow. Was worried there for a bit. Must have had a short-term issue with my ISP

Jaza’s picture

Jaza commented

If you're ever worried about the page loading times for your site, try using the 'Speed Report' facility in the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar (you are using Firefox, right? ;-)).

I checked out a report of your site, and it looks pretty good to me. Images and CSS are a bit over, but nothing devastating (Drupal sites often go over the recommended CSS size, mainly because of drupal.css). I'd say your site is actually faster than average as Drupal sites go.

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jimh009 commented

Of course I use Firefox. Can't understand why others don't!!

Thanks for the tip on the toolbar. I hadn't stumbled across that one yet over at the Firefox site yet. Very nice, handy toolbar to have.