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Can anyone provide pointers to help speed up Lowell.com's Real Estate and Restaurant Guide sections? IMO, there are less images in these sections than the home page, but they take forever to load. What is holding it up and what do I need to do to speed it up?
Lowell Real Estate
Lowell Restaurants
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There's a lot of extra javascript on the slow pages compared to your Homepage. You can see the bottom right ads are hanging.
<!--/* OpenX Javascript Tag v2.8.0 */--> is the problem.
First port of call would be to compare the code of the HomePage to the code of the slow loading pages or template.
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If you use Firefox, open up the Error Console under Tools. Clear it and then load the sites. I got about a dozen of the following errors:
This is, I think, due to the following line of code, for some reason in your <body> (CSS should always be in your <head>):Error: The stylesheet http://www.lowell.com/404.php was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/html", is not "text/css".
Source File: http://www.lowell.com/restaurants/
Line: 0
Not sure if that's slowing things down, but it could be one of the things (along with any JS issues)Code:<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="chrometheme/chromestyle.css" />
In-fact, thinking about it, it's almost definitely to do with some slow JS. However the CSS thing definitely needs fixing.
1. Image optimization for the web - less images
2. Structuring the page to load in horizontal segments instead of nested containers
3. Removal of excess CSS "junk"
4. Faster server with more memory and fewer shared resources
The background is loading dead last for me.
[edit: just saw the rest of the code] You have a lot of javascript there, which is client-side, which means all the muscle doesn't lift until the page is loaded. Which slows it down.[/edit]
Last edited by Tia Wood; 08-21-2009 at 11:27 AM.
Another quick thing - the first page is around 70 KB and the second is around 190 KB. Both are pretty good (for non-modems), however you may want to optimise this image:
http://www.lowell.com/images/banner.gif
It's 77 KB alone which is OTT and could be reduced to about 30 KB by converting it to JPG and optimising it. Only use .gif for icons and things which don't contain photography.
However yeah, this is probably due to JS. Just pointing out that that image is more than double the size it can be.
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