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Store moving slowly, 1+ minutes to load, image location help

My store recently started running REALLY slow. http://molemen.com/shop/customer/home.php It's taking almost 2 minutes to load. Everything else on my site is loading pretty fast. I noticed a drop in sales from Friday when we started having problems.
This is what I got from help:

Code:

There are several options that may help you to speed up site. Try them out first. 



1. Move images from database to file system: admin zone ->Images location; Store images in, choose File system



2. Toggle off atracking statistics 



the statistics is disabled via admin zone, 'General settings': 

uncheck 'Enable tracking statistics gathering' field. 



3. Then clean statistic tables in the admin back-end of x-cart: 

Summary page - >Statistics clearing



4. Then clean templates cache in the admin back-end of x-cart: 

Summary page - Clear templates cache

So my question is, when I am moving images to a file system, do i put a folder on my server for the images?

like ww w.myserver.com/shop/storeimages ?

Store Info:
X-Cart 3.5.11
PHP 4.3.6

The correct location for images on your server is in the files/ folder in the X-cart Root directory. You can create sub-folders if you want (thumbnanils, detailed images, categories).

thanks for the help but, I keep getting a whole bunch of this...

/files/t_16221.gif - Failed
/files/t_16222.gif - Failed
/files/t_16223.gif - Failed
/files/t_16229.gif - Failed
/files/t_16230.gif - Failed
/files/t_16231.jpg - Failed
/files/t_16232.gif - Failed

:cry:

Make sure the files folder and sub folders are writable. Also make sure the .htaccess file in there reads 'Allow from all'. For some reason, the default is 'deny from all'.

okay, i got it now, /shop/files

Thanks Balinor

Site is still running slow. E-mailed support and waiting for them to get back to me.

It ran rather fast for me...
Try from other computers/conections to judge your store performance.