Hi guys
anyone know of any good websites to test site load speed from AU servers?
We did some upgrades to our website gabt.com.au recently and the results from pingdom seem to fluctuate a fair bit (6-10sec)
Not asking for free clicks, but i would also be keen to know if you think our site speed is considered fast, moderate or slow from your end
thanks
You can always use Chrome or Firefox's developer tools to check the site loading speed. For example loading the home page of Gadgets Boutique is around 6.6s. The biggest issue from what I see is the initial page load — 3.4s waiting for the first byte to come back. Looks like database not yet optimised?
Another one to use would be Google PageSpeed Insights which analyses your site & give suggestions on how to speed it up (at least for the front end).
Thanks Scotty
You are spot on
The db not optimized resulting in a delayed load time
I will try out the suggested tool to trouble shoot
Many thanks
Apart from improving the table structure
Is there anything else you can suggest for db optimization ?
I'm running Magento
Many thanks
Magento can be very slow until everything is cached. Make sure you have caching turned on. After that the first load of a page will take a while, then the second load should be a lot faster. Running magento with the cache turned off is server suicide.
Other than that, make sure you have added indexes to the relevant columns of any mysql tables you created/wrote yourself.
Hi
In your opinion will magento default cache do the trick?
At one stage we manage to get our site to load under 5sec,
Thank you kindly for taking time to reply
As scotty said first byte time is quite poor. Have you considered using a CDN like CloudFlare? You could also improve load time by caching resources better, your jpg images seem to be taking a long time to load. Check out this for a more detailed picture of where you can improve: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140112_NX_1KW/1/details/
Achieving sub 3 second load times is pretty important, especially for eCommerce. http://blog.kissmetrics.com/loading-time/
Hi
I'm trying to solve the root of the problem first before we use cache,
right now we are using magento cache to optimise resources.
but with regards to the db optimisation.
do you know any tools that maybe useful to perform the task?
Hi Blockey
Just installed cloudflare
Highly recommended, we manage to hit under 5sec load speed now
on par with the big boys (albeit without the same traffic) but a big milestone from 10 sec load
It's a great tool for improving site speed. Glad I could assist :)
Also i noticed when we are working in admin, the site will load noticeable quicker by 2-3 sec
but if it's idle then the site seem to slow down again..
like it needs a boot to wake it up!
That may be because some of the files you are viewing are cached in your browser, so when you view the website again it should load faster than someone who has never opened the website. Have you got Magento admin panel > System > Tools > Compilation active?
As I mentioned above CloudFlare should help a lot.
Without looking at the database its hard for me to comment on what can be improved.
Hey thanks!
I will check out cloudflare!
I'd be more worried about the site being non-responsive than load times esp. when you sell mobile phone accessories. To look at the site in a mobile (responsive view) go Here http://www.responsinator.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gadgetsbo…
Cheers Shannon
Thanks Shannon
we are in the process of rebuilding our mobile site,
I think we found the source of the problem and manage to get our site to load under 5 sec now!
too many cron jobs!
I feel like this is really slow. Opening any page showed it was "waiting" for about 10 seconds+
loaded fine in about 1-2secs for me