I'm a homeschool mom that volunteers her time to maintaining a website for my local homeschool support group. I am NOT a developer; I know nothing about databases or scripts. I just knew enough to secure a host, install drupal, a theme and post content. So any help sent this way truly needs to be in layman's terms.
The website is www.lwhe.org. I installed Drupal 5.8 on a Bluehost server over a year ago (because I liked a specific theme by RoopleTheme that ran on Drupal). Anyway, everything has been working flawlessly in the past year. But sometime over the last two weeks (the last time I added content to the website was on 10/22/09 and everything was okay then), the website pages load extremely slow...sometimes well over a minute or two. The problem is not browser specific. Bluehost says everything is fine on their end. Other than me not being a developer with any experience in this area, what could be the problem? Many thanks in advance.
P.S. So you know what to expect: the theme's template has a left sidebar and a right sidebar with content in the middle. The left side starts loading right away but then chokes before completing and the right sidebar and the middle content take minutes to load.
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On 10/17/2009 two 500kb bmp
On 10/17/2009 two 500kb bmp files were submitted and currently appear on page 1...I would say this is your problem.
Convert these images to jpg files and reupload.
You will want to set a image upload limit to stop this happening again.
From a quick glance at your
From a quick glance at your website, it is slow because it spends most of the loading time trying to get data from different hosts:
www.google.com
www.christianwomenonline.net
See at the bottom of your browser for the hosts that took the most time.
That worked!
Thanks! I disabled a block of scripted widgets that I had in the left hand sidebar and that seemed to have cleared up the problem. It's strange, though, that I just started having a problem with it. I'll go back and when I have some time and figure out which widget was the culprit. Thanks again for the tip!