I'm having some trouble achieving a fast response time to my main page by my users.

I've tested it on a few of these 'Web Optimisation' sites and they have reported some troubling news. In response, I've gopne through and re-sized some of the photos submitted by my users, and to avoid the problem in future I've reduced the file size limit allowed.

In addition, I've gone through and cachhed everything I can in the system admin (basically all the things that do not need to change straight away from the users perspective).

I've checked my logo files are small which they are, and now most of my grahics are 10K or less (not all, but most).

Unfortunately though, the optimiser sites still report bad news. For example :



and



and


To top it off, some users have said that they think the site is slow, so it must be affecting a lot of people.

I have checked with my ISP that they have not changed anything on their servers recently that could have affected this - they say they haven't.

I do use a web stats module (Web Stats 2.1) which I've read may affect things. Is the only way to get round this to remove it or are there better one's?

How can I get my site to load in less than 8 seconds without stripping out all the content?

(BTW - I have looked through XOOPS and tried most of what has been suggested i.e. caching and reducing file sizes).

Thanks in advance.

Ted

hello ted,
there are at least these images which are bigger than 10 k at least the first 4 in this list.

1 99611 IMG http://www.lost-doggies.com/uploads/thumbs1/23.jpg
1 29706 IMG http://www.lost-doggies.com/modules/xoopspartners/images/partner_logos/dog_groups.gif
1 29461 IMG http://www.lost-doggies.com/uploads/thumbs/47.jpg
1 26630 IMG http://www.lost-doggies.com/themes/Zaja-System/images/stairs2.jpg
1 17937 IMG http://www.lost-doggies.com/themes/Zaja-System/images/main_logo.gif
1 13156 IMG http://www.lost-doggies.com/images/maximage2.jpg
1 12972 IMG http://www.lost-doggies.com/images/dogrun.gif
1 12818 IMG http://www.lost-doggies.com/uploads/thumbs1/27.jpg
1 11663 IMG http://www.lost-doggies.com/uploads/thumbs1/4.jpg

try to make them bit smaller using lower resolution or quality, or even size.

have you thought about arranging your content different than the actual usage? Not all images on startpage but show blocks at other positions, pages ?

Sometimes the usage of a sort of dummy mod which has no use but placing blocks helps much?

write a short text and show the images a page lower size than startpage.


keep on good work
michael