Thread: Site Speed

With the new Google Labs in Webmaster Tools we have been watching our site speed.

Google has ranked the site as been slower than most with 5 second load times.

We have spoken to our current web host and done a few things server side to increase the speed however the site is still a bit sluggish.

We downloaded the Google Speed Test and wanted to know the best way to go about implanting the suggestions.

One main suggestion was gzip compression, how would we go about compressing the CSS and JavaScript? They also suggest compressing the page, again how would we go about compressing the page?

Currently the home page is 516.7kB. We really want to bring this down and make sure the site is running as effectively as possible before considering upgrading the server.

Thanks for your advice.

Im interested in this as well. Here is what google labs says about us

On average, pages in your site take 3.5 seconds to load (updated on Dec 13, 2009). This is slower than 58% of sites.

I actually noted this last time but support said it loads fine.
On average, pages in your site take 14.6 seconds to load (updated on Oct 23, 2009). This is slower than 97% of sites -

I'll throw my hand up here as well - I'm interested.
The specifics I'd like to achieve are :-

• GZIP Compression.
• Setting a cache expiration date for images served.

It should be noted that as I'm using ChannelAdvisor - I have no access to the servere - if at all possible - I'd like to achieve this without access to IIS (6.0).

For those looking to compress javascript - the first step might be to minify it :-
http://jscompress.com/


TTFN

BFG

This has came up as a bigger issue now Google is been more open with their speed tests of a site.

The easiest way for us to speed up dramatically is with the gzip.

Thanks for the link BFG will do that as well.
The Google speed test add-on for firebug has a CSS minifier with it.

Still no help on this?
Is this not covered in the manual?

Any Staff able to chime in here?


TTFN

BFG

We told our host to try out the server side GZIP from an article we found.
Makes things a bit faster server side.

http://www.smallworkarounds.net/2009...sing-gzip.html

still need to compress the files been delivered it seems...

That only had a minimal effect on our server.

Anyone have any other tips?
Thanks

Has anyone looked at the speedup effect of more memory for the 64 bit software?
What are you using for SQL server? Separate or on same machine as IIS? If a separate machine what is the effect of more memory on the SQL server? How much of the slowness is due to SQL bottlenecks?
Are the viewing computers set for cookies, caching, etc. that might affect time?
I would appreciate any work by you science guys coming up with charts so I, an engineer, could choose hardware for optimum performance without having to purchase overkill. Thank you in advance.
Richard