Need a site check please

[LeMarque]

This is a Joomla! site I just started working on and it seems to me it takes forever to load. Unless I've missed or otherwise munged php.ini, I'm at a loss because I've got 512/1024 for my VPS.

I'd appreciate feedback on load times from other KH users.

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org

TIA

 

[pmcwebs]

This is a Joomla! site I just started working on and it seems to me it takes forever to load. Unless I've missed or otherwise munged php.ini, I'm at a loss because I've got 512/1024 for my VPS.

I'd appreciate feedback on load times from other KH users.

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org

TIA

Very slow from south eastern Australia, about 20 seconds or more before the page starts coming up.

Pete

 

[Aussie_Boy]

Approx. 50 seconds for me, also SE Australia.


DNS reports as ok via:
http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheck.aspx?domain=newmexicofreepress.org&detailed=1

(OT, says mx has an issue)

 

[MadMax]

popped right up for me.....images all have red X's.


Goodyear, Az.

 

[Bryan]

14 seconds from Southern California, with the red x's for the images. Pages within the site loaded within a couple seconds.

 

[Abstr]

about 10 seconds for me in New England, USA.

 

[LeMarque]

Thanks everyone. It's 20+ seconds for me. The red x's are because I'm using this site as a 'staging' site for a school that I'm going to be developing a site for using this template and Joomla! and I haven't uploaded the images I plan on using.

I've got a few screen captures of top, ps-aux, etc. that I think I'll send to support. Looks like SpamAssain is eating up memory but I'm not sure if that would be the cause of the slow page load.

Thanks again. I'll post back if I ever figure it out.


L.

 

[LeMarque]

Now its fine

All it took was an email to KH support and my server decided to heal itself. Loads faster than ever before!

I don't think I'll be breaking any rules by posting a link provided by Chris that others may find useful if they think their sites are loading slowly:

http://alertra.com/spotcheck.php

 

[mylinear]

In addition, you can also use the below. I use both Alertra and Hyperspin to do instant checks to identify such problems. Both together should cover a wide range.

http://www.hyperspin.com/en/quicktest.php

 

[stormrider]

Your problem seens to be with your site size: approx. 713kb.

Sites should not have more than 100 or 150kb.

From what i have seen, you should optmize the following images:

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/templates/rt_chromatophore_j15/images/bg/overlay-abstract.png

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/templates/rt_chromatophore_j15/images/bg/overlay-bark.png

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/templates/rt_chromatophore_j15/images/bg/overlay-spirals.png

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/templates/rt_chromatophore_j15/images/bg/overlay-cracked.png

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/templates/rt_chromatophore_j15/images/bg/overlay-hills.png

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/templates/rt_chromatophore_j15/images/bg/overlay-mosaic.png

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/templates/rt_chromatophore_j15/images/bg/overlay-foliage.png

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/templates/rt_chromatophore_j15/images/bg/overlay-gatorskin.png

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/templates/rt_chromatophore_j15/images/bg/overlay-hills-trees.png

http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/templates/rt_chromatophore_j15/images/bg/overlay-spirals2.png

Also there is a Javascript file, mootools.js ( http://www.newmexicofreepress.org/media/system/js/mootools.js ). You should get the packed version which can be 3 or 4 times smaller.

This doesn't seen to be a VPS resource issue because once my browser have those images on cache, your site opens fine here and navigation is really fast.