By scedwar on

We're looking to employ a Drupal developer for a few hours, or potentially more, to work on optimising the Javascript on our Charity website: http://www.charityrallies.org

We're relying on a lot of drupal modules that provide JS for various funcitonality. The side effect is that our site has become bloated and unresponsive with JS on, but very fast with JS on. In some browsers the JS even causes the browser to hesitate for a few seconds during page rendering. Log in and create an account and you'll quickly see the problem.

Something is clearly up, but none of our existing volunteers are JS experts. We are prepared to pay a reasonable hourly rate based on experience and performance, to investigate this problem and improve the site performance. Alternatively, if you would like to volunteer, we would also be very grateful and this will mean more money can go to our charity projects!

Thanks, Stephen

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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drupalexpert_amit’s picture

drupalexpert_amit commented

Possible Solution #1
Looking at the site, it probably looks like the jcarousal + lightbox with tons of images is causing this issue.
Solution: Try reducing the number of images loading in it.. (or temporarily disabling the top images block to see if the rendering speed increases )

Possible Solution #2
Also, I notice a line inside the theme, which probably affects the page redering speed after body load.
Solution: Try deleting this line in the page.tpl file in your theme .. to see if the page redering speed increases...

 $(document).ready(function() {
          // find all external links and set target to new window
          $("a.external-link").attr("target", "_blank");
        });

Hope that helps in identifying the problem at least, but there may be other aspects as well! :)

Regards,
Amit
Email: drupalexpertamit@gmail.com