About Website speed
 

Hello,


Need a little help, whenever I tried to access my website, some time it take 15 seconds to load but, I get on the site and click on any item, it moved fast.


Is the problem with my hosting company, that's why its slow to enter the website?

Any help will be much appreciated.

Tom

Re: About Website speed
 

Sounds like it is your server but you will need to do some testing. What's your url? You can use tools like Pingdom, Loads.in and Loadimpact.com. Using a CDN network helps speed up your site.

Re: About Website speed
 

PM you my url.

Re: About Website speed
 

OK first thing I see is lots of CSS files being called. Do you have these 3 settings ticked in the general settings page?
Use speed-up tool for Javascript
Use speed-up tool for CSS
Do not check if templates are changed (Smarty compile_check).

Re: About Website speed
 

For SEO purposes I would enable clean URLs too.

Re: About Website speed
 

Once you have done that I would also look at using MaxCDN or similar to pull images, JS and CSS. I use them and are cheap. I have set up 4 pull zones for each of the sections you can link.

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=64443&highlight=maxcdn

Re: About Website speed
 

No I do not have any check.

Re: About Website speed
 

Check all 3 and apply. Make sure the site still loads ok and let me know its done and I'll have another look.

Re: About Website speed
 

I did it, you can try now.

Re: About Website speed
 

OK that's getting better. Can you temporarily remove/disable you badges below the footer and also you chat software. It looks like they are not helping load time. So that's next to test.