Posted by animammal on September 30, 2009 at 10:19pm
Hi ya,
My site is very slow and I'm finding it frustrating to administer. So I downloaded the Boost module and that's all working and stuff. Thing is, it doesn't seem to make the slightest difference, its still very slow. My broadband downloads at 1mb/s and is working fine. If I download files from my domain then I get a steady 100kb/s so it's either the drupal install/cache settings causing the problems or the server isn't dishing out the pages as quickly as it should due to overloading.
Does anyone have some good caching guidelines to follow for a small information/ubercart site on a shared hosting plan or Is it not likely to help as i'm with the very crap Justhost?
ta
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Boost is for guests not logged in users
I do not think that Admin is cached. You could try Cache Router and Authcache
http://drupal.org/project/cacherouter
http://drupal.org/project/authcache
i think my post was a bit
i think my post was a bit misleading. I meant that the site as a hole is just slow weather i'm logged in as root or not. it takes about 6-7 seconds for a very small page to load. Have you had experience with cache router? do you think it would make a difference in this case?
Have you spot out the problem
Have you spot out the problem with yslow or page speed extension for firefox? You may find some good suggestions.
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I think they will help a lot
My pages load in under a second with those two modules installed.
They are very simple to install and configure.
Is boost configured correctly?
6-7 seconds is very very slow for a site using boost. Are you seeing the html comment at the bottom of the page?
See: http://drupal.org/node/545908#sys
Yslow has helped alot
Yslow was reporting a grade F for most things which isn't good. I've now managed to change most of those to an A just by turning on css and js aggregation and disabling compression. Pages now load in about 1 - 2 seconds which is much more acceptable.
I think the main problem was a total of 14 js scripts for the Aquia Prosper theme were trying to load before the page showed up . Drupal js aggregation seems to make them load last and is almost solely responsible for the speed difference.
The trouble I have now is that my ubercart ajax cart block is not updating automatically with block caching turned on. As a result i am disabling Boost for the moment as I just needed the site to be a bit quicker and script aggregation has done that. I'll re-enable it when its absolutely necessary.
mikeytown2 - Yes I was getting the comment, so I guess Boost was configure correctly.
Thanks for your help guys, yslow is a FIND! boost will be great when I have time to play with the settings and I'm always impressed with the level and amount of help I get here.
Cheers!
Issue of interest for you
ubercart ajax cart block
http://drupal.org/node/586210
Yslow has helped alot
Yslow was reporting a grade F for most things which isn't good. I've now managed to change most of those to an A just by turning on css and js aggregation and disabling compression. Pages now load in about 1 - 2 seconds which is much more acceptable.
I think the main problem was a total of 14 js scripts for the Aquia Prosper theme were trying to load before the page showed up . Drupal js aggregation seems to make them load last and is almost solely responsible for the speed difference.
The trouble I have now is that my ubercart ajax cart block is not updating automatically with block caching turned on. As a result i am disabling Boost for the moment as I just needed the site to be a bit quicker and script aggregation has done that. I'll re-enable it when its absolutely necessary.
mikeytown2 - Yes I was getting the comment, so I guess Boost was configure correctly.
Thanks for your help guys, yslow is a FIND! boost will be great when I have time to play with the settings and I'm always impressed with the level and amount of help I get here.
Cheers!
Yslow has helped alot
Yslow was reporting a grade F for most things which isn't good. I've now managed to change most of those to an A just by turning on css and js aggregation and disabling compression. Pages now load in about 1 - 2 seconds which is much more acceptable.
I think the main problem was a total of 14 js scripts for the Aquia Prosper theme were trying to load before the page showed up . Drupal js aggregation seems to make them load last and is almost solely responsible for the speed difference.
The trouble I have now is that my ubercart ajax cart block is not updating automatically with block caching turned on. As a result i am disabling Boost for the moment as I just needed the site to be a bit quicker and script aggregation has done that. I'll re-enable it when its absolutely necessary.
mikeytown2 - Yes I was getting the comment, so I guess Boost was configure correctly.
Thanks for your help guys, yslow is a FIND! boost will be great when I have time to play with the settings and I'm always impressed with the level and amount of help I get here.
Cheers!