Yeah, point taken. Was just wanting to get this site functioning at speed without putting too much effort into it - I'm not sure whether I will stick with this cart yet and didn't want to put weeks of effort into learning something I might not use.
Xcart seems terribly slow, even after doing all the suggested speed-up mods I could find here I'm still at 2-3 seconds delay after clicking menu button before the page loads. This is at 5am with zero server load and only two test-products loaded. I looked at some other xcart sites and realised that this appears to be the nature of the beast.
I don't know what other carts are around - this was recommended by my webhost, but the online shops I usually shop at are lightning-fast. Whereas, 1-2 seconds delay after a button click seems to be normal, even good, for xcart. Reading this forum, it seems people think a 5-10 second delay for a page to load is normal.
If my store is going to work there will have to be a pretty compelling reason for customers to go there - no one is going to surf it for fun.
Anyway, thanks for your help, I appreciate it. One thing xcart has got going for it is this forum which is a great source of information if you're trying to come to grips with this thing.
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