By tuncalik on

Hello everybody

Our new Turkish aquarium site (www.bilyap.com) runs on Drupal 6.14, but it is extremely slow.

I contacted our hosting company (bluehost) and they advised me to check the database and the caching options of Drupal. They are alright, but the site is still too slow.

Do you know what might be the reason? Is it the hosting company, or is Drupal a heavy CMS which require a high performance hosting?

Regards
Tunc

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ludo1960’s picture

ludo1960 commented

Many modules have you got ?

tuncalik’s picture

tuncalik commented

more than 90 modules installed, about 60 of them enabled

vm’s picture

vm commented

modules not in use can/should be removed, though the extraneous modules not in use likely only affect administer -> modules and administer -> update status.

60 modules is a fair amount of modules. Some modules require more resources than others.

May be of benefit to benchmark your system (provided the hosts allows). Likely won't be able to do so on a shared host.

are most of your users anon? logged in? have a ratio?
have you run devel to locate any slow querries?

2bits.com has a great deal of information as does the performance group on groups.drupal.org

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aitala commented

According to Safari's Web Inspector, the scripts on the page are taking 1.3 seconds, the images 1.7 seconds... The entire page takes up 2.5 since everything loads in parallel...

You might look at disabling the Amazon scripts and see if this speeds things up.

Eric

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tuncalik’s picture

tuncalik commented

yes, you are right, thanks. I tested it right now. amazon scripts for link enhancers are really slowing down the site.

Tunc

yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

Your homepage fetches in 0.698s. That's the Drupal part, not the various graphics and external scripts and such.

You can probably knock that down somewhat by installing Boost:
http://drupal.org/project/boost
... which puts most of your non-authenticated traffic completely outside of Drupal, fetching cached flat HTML pages.

If you're not already running APC, of course you should be.

ludo1960’s picture

ludo1960 commented

What is APC?

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Its a php opcode cache. see http://php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php for more info.

tuncalik’s picture

tuncalik commented

Thanks. I will test the speed with boost though I am weary of complex modules with possible side effects.

Tunc

tuncalik’s picture

tuncalik commented

Hello

Our aquarium site www.bilyap.com is still too slow. Can it be a hosting issue? Can you advice hosting services with a good performance in terms of speed?

Does anyone have experience with MM Hosting? It seems to offer a high quality service.

Tunc

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albertatambo commented

From my experience, some contrib modules may slow down your website, Bluehost is the best Drupal Host I know, I have hosted my website with Bluehost. The way I normally resolve slowness problems is by disabling all modules and re-enabling them one at a time as you check the speed, you will most likely identify the problem contrib module. Good luck.