Hi, I've been running my site based on XOOPS for about 6 months now.

The site is Paddy's World.

I am not sure how well the site performs in terms of speed. I am able to see how the pages load on my PC and sometimes they take about a second to load and at other times they can sometimes take 10 to 15 seconds.

I have reviewed and searched these forums and implemented some of the recommendations I have found (cacheing of modules and blocks being the main one).

However, I have made quite a few changes to the themes and templates used on the site (in a lot of places, so that the use of other XOOPS themes is almost redundant).

Although the site has 'quite a lot' of graphics, I have optimised them to reduce their size and therefore their download time.

The site is primarily a humour site with a massive amount of downloads, and the download speed seems to be very good for the large attachments that are there.

So my main request is for some feedback if possible....

Could you take a look at the site at Paddy's World and

a) Let me know whether you consider the site to be slow, quite slow, OK, quite fast or fast.

b) List any improvements that you think I could implement.

and

c) Identify whether you think the problem may lie with my hosts.

I've spent quite a bit of time developing the site and will certainly stay with XOOPS as the system has 'blown me away' with how good it is, but I struggle to identify how to get any constructive feedback on how the site could be improved.

Many thanks for any help or feedback that could be given to me!!

30 seconds on 1st visit.. which isn't great but it's not slow by comparison to some.. you have a lot of images on the front page.. and i'm using 56k which is why it's slow..

2nd visit was abt 17 seconds, but i suspect that was because my browser had cached some of the images..

Your site is blocked by my corporations filter for some reason but I will check when I get home for you.

About 20 seconds here on a 2Meg line for the first visit.

Okay checked it at home while on lunch and it took around five seconds on my cable access.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

The site is more orientated towards broadband users, as the main function is to download large attachents so it may not appeal to dial-up users as much - 20 to 30 seconds would seem OK though on dial-up.

Do you consider these download times to be slow or do you think they are acceptable? If you think they are too slow, do you have any suggestions on how to speed the site up? or do you think using a dedicated server host may be the only option?

Again, thanks for the help and any comments!

In my pc didn't load at all ! 56k line.


Edit:

Ok now !

Mostly agree with http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.paddysworld.co.uk/modules/news/

All, thanks for the responses.

The web Optimizer link was great and a big help (although the results are pretty similar for the http://www.xoops.org site).


Just for info:
I have managed to speed up the site by implementing a css style vertical menu which reduced the size from about 40K to 4K. I decided to take this action after reviewing the results at the web optimizer page.

Again, thanks to everyone for the feedback!

page + text loaded in about 30(ish) seconds, I am connected @ 44000 (isp error I think) and it took a lil longer for the graphics, I love the site and wouldn't mind getting some of those games for my place! where'd ya get em! lol