Hello All,
My Clients are Complaining for slow speed of my osCommerce Website.. I dont have the basic idea to check out for the speed down of my website.. What could be the issue in this matter?
Could Anybody guide me regarding this...
Are u Serious? Is that the only reason?
OM The Eternity
2010-06-29 09:10:23
it would make sense for very specific problems, like when your clients are from Europe and your hosting is in the US. In this case changing your provider may help.
Elzo Valugi
2010-06-29 09:40:54
You are right, I was not talking about the server's location, but the server itself. I don't think the problem is with OsCommerce or its implementation.
Pierre 303
2010-06-29 09:45:10
A:
Use a profiler (Firebug has one), and you'll see what takes so long to load.
Soufiane Hassou
2010-06-29 09:14:02
ok i got the profiler activated how should i examine the website now?
OM The Eternity
2010-06-29 09:18:36
+1
A:
Take Firebug/YSlow or something similar to find out what takes so long.
Possible improvements:
- Google how to speed up osCommerce in general. (cache, etc.)
- If possible speed up you PHP installation by using a php byte code cache (e.g.: eAccelerator)
- If possible tweak you web server. For Apache interesting options could be mod_deflate (decreases size of transfered data) and setting the headers for caching CSS/JavaScript via mod_expires (more strict caching for assets)
If you are only able to do 1. on the site is still to slow, consider to use a more powerful web hosting or a eCommerce solutions that performs better.
Hippo
2010-06-29 09:32:49
A:
Corrupted indexes, lack of correct indexes, overall slow performance on your hosting.
First step, run optimize on ALL tables (this might take a long time, if your worried about it use ANALYZE instead):
OPTIMIZE TABLE table_name
That would rule out any maintenance issues you might having.
jishi
2010-06-29 09:35:22
+1
A:
A dedicated machine, some extra RAM, upgrading hardware is the fastest solution... not the cheapest of course.
Elzo Valugi
2010-06-29 09:39:21
It might, but analysing the code/db for any performance issues first is better than simply throwing hardware at the problem
Mark Baker
2010-06-29 09:49:09
true. it also take a while longer to optimize a website with lot of code and not knowing where the problem is. I would be curious if the performance of the website decreased in time or this is the first time the clients notice slowness. Maybe this could point to a particular problem.
Elzo Valugi
2010-06-29 10:19:24