My website takes 2 minutes to load!

Dana Salsbury · July 22nd, 2008, 12:46 PM

It used to load in 2 seconds. Is this the ISP, a Javascript loop, Hostmonster or something else? Here's a diagnostic:

Web Page Speed Report
URL: http://legacyhdv.com
Title: Phoenix AZ Videography - HD Videographer in Scottsdale Arizona
Date: Report run on Tue Jul 22 12:43:52CDT2008

Diagnosis
Global Statistics
Total HTTP Requests: 11
Total Size: 239401 bytes

Object Size Totals
Object type Size (bytes) Download @ 56K (seconds) Download @ T1 (seconds)
HTML: 35570 7.29 0.39
HTML Images: 162632 34.01 2.46
CSS Images: 0 0.00 0.00
Total Images: 162632 34.01 2.46
javascript: 6846 1.56 0.24
CSS: 0 0.00 0.00
Multimedia: 34353 7.05 0.38
Other: 0 0.00 0.00

External Objects
External Object QTY
Total HTML: 1
Total HTML Images: 8
Total CSS Images: 0
Total Images: 8
Total Scripts: 1
Total CSS imports: 0
Total Frames: 0
Total Iframes: 0

Download Times*
Connection Rate Download Time
14.4K 187.75 seconds
28.8K 94.97 seconds
33.6K 81.72 seconds
56K 49.91 seconds
ISDN 128K 16.81 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 3.47 seconds

Chris Davis · July 22nd, 2008, 12:59 PM

Why do you have everything on one page? It reminds me of a Geocities page from 1996! :)

Your site looks nice, you just need to split it up into about six pages. That would take care of your load time and site useability.

Cole McDonald · July 22nd, 2008, 01:07 PM

Loaded pretty quickly for me. I would agree though that breaking the information up would be a good thing.

Noa Put · July 22nd, 2008, 01:09 PM

The problem might be your pc? Here (on the other side of the globe) your site loads very fast, also your video's play without a problem.

Dana Salsbury · July 22nd, 2008, 01:27 PM

I'll split it up. I just think it's something more than that. I *have* held onto the one page thing for too long.

Chris Davis · July 22nd, 2008, 08:51 PM

It took about 20 seconds to load. I tried it on both PCs on my desktop and had the same result.

Lars Siden · July 23rd, 2008, 04:19 AM

Dana,

I live in Sweden, here the page loads in about 45 seconds(I have a 24/8mbit connection). My impression is that you are refering to material outside the hosting server? ie. you are linking to video/pictures on another server on the net?

The only "big" gfx I can see on the page is the animated title-banner, don't know how large that might be in kb's?

// Lazze

Pietro Impagliazzo · July 23rd, 2008, 04:30 AM

Everything is one page and it's using anchor when you click the links.

That's very... odd!

I think other users already said it'd be nice to split up.

Krystian Dobak · July 23rd, 2008, 06:06 AM

Hi! I have no problems with opening it. It takes about 5 sec on my 2Mbit.

Dana Salsbury · July 23rd, 2008, 03:24 PM

I read something that said for optimization, put everything on the home page. Bad advice. I'm splitting it up. I'm looking into an Iframe solution to have my videos in the same place, but loading new videos/pages with a next button. Would that help the initial load.

Another alternative is trying (again) to figure out the JW Player playlist. I don't know if that would give me the same loading nightmare because I have a lot of videos.

Dana Salsbury · July 24th, 2008, 02:18 PM

One of the Hostmonster hard drives "crashed", so several of my sites and all of my email has been down 14hrs now. I thought I was pretty smart switching from GoDaddy. Should I start looking again, or is this a universal possibility with all ISPs?

When it comes back up, I'll have rebuilt my site. Thank you guys for your help!!

Chris Davis · July 25th, 2008, 09:04 AM

A crash is always possible, but 14 hours? That's unbelievable for a national host. I've used 1&1 for years and never had a problem.

Dana Salsbury · July 25th, 2008, 11:47 AM

Hostmonster went down again all last night.

Then this morning I find that they have lost ALL MY UPDATES for the last two weeks. I just kissed away 60-80 hours worth of work because they don't backup their servers! A backup every two weeks is PATHETIC for a national company. Even my new email account with them is gone.

Any suggestions on a REAL host?

(very frustrated)

Noa Put · July 25th, 2008, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Davis

A crash is always possible, but 14 hours? That's unbelievable for a national host. I've used 1&1 for years and never had a problem.

I had the same problem with Lycos once were I host all my video's, I only saw that my videos were unavailable for a day but users reported about 3 days of very slowly loading sites. But Lycos is cheap, they give you a lot of bandwidth and I need that for my videos.
My site is hosted at Nucleus who have their servers in Belgium, never had a problem and they provide very good service, mails and problems are dealt with within a day. Only the bandwidth is limited so not suitable for my videodemo's and they are much more expensive then Lycos. But since my site never was down and because of their excellent service I stay with them for my site only and I link from that site to the lycos server to show my video's.

Chris Davis · July 25th, 2008, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dana Salsbury

Hostmonster went down again all last night.

Any suggestions on a REAL host?

(very frustrated)

I like www.1and1.com. I've used them for years and no problems. They're cheap and give you a ton of bandwidth. However, the real test of a host is what they do when there are problems, and I've never really had a problem.

I think they offer some referral bonuses for both referrer and referree, so let me know if you want me to look.

We use our own co-located server for websites, but I use 1&1 to host the videos because of the generous bandwidth.

July 22nd, 2008, 12:46 PM	#1
Dana Salsbury Major Player Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 566	My website takes 2 minutes to load! It used to load in 2 seconds. Is this the ISP, a Javascript loop, Hostmonster or something else? Here's a diagnostic: Web Page Speed Report URL: http://legacyhdv.com Title: Phoenix AZ Videography - HD Videographer in Scottsdale Arizona Date: Report run on Tue Jul 22 12:43:52CDT2008 Diagnosis Global Statistics Total HTTP Requests: 11 Total Size: 239401 bytes Object Size Totals Object type Size (bytes) Download @ 56K (seconds) Download @ T1 (seconds) HTML: 35570 7.29 0.39 HTML Images: 162632 34.01 2.46 CSS Images: 0 0.00 0.00 Total Images: 162632 34.01 2.46 javascript: 6846 1.56 0.24 CSS: 0 0.00 0.00 Multimedia: 34353 7.05 0.38 Other: 0 0.00 0.00 External Objects External Object QTY Total HTML: 1 Total HTML Images: 8 Total CSS Images: 0 Total Images: 8 Total Scripts: 1 Total CSS imports: 0 Total Frames: 0 Total Iframes: 0 Download Times* Connection Rate Download Time 14.4K 187.75 seconds 28.8K 94.97 seconds 33.6K 81.72 seconds 56K 49.91 seconds ISDN 128K 16.81 seconds T1 1.44Mbps 3.47 seconds __________________ www.LegacyHDV.com \| www.DiamondVideography.com Weddings \| Corporate \| FX1s \| FCS2 \| Encore \| Blu-Ray \| Flash8 \| Quad \| Leopard

July 22nd, 2008, 01:07 PM	#3
Cole McDonald Trustee Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Sauk Rapids, MN, USA Posts: 1,393	Loaded pretty quickly for me. I would agree though that breaking the information up would be a good thing. __________________ http://www.yafiunderground.com Low/No Budget cinema that looks like a million bucks!

July 22nd, 2008, 01:09 PM	#4
Noa Put Major Player Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Belgium Posts: 579	The problem might be your pc? Here (on the other side of the globe) your site loads very fast, also your video's play without a problem. __________________ Don't mind me, I'm from Barcelona

July 22nd, 2008, 01:27 PM	#5
Dana Salsbury Major Player Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 566	I'll split it up. I just think it's something more than that. I have held onto the one page thing for too long. __________________ www.LegacyHDV.com \| www.DiamondVideography.com Weddings \| Corporate \| FX1s \| FCS2 \| Encore \| Blu-Ray \| Flash8 \| Quad \| Leopard

July 23rd, 2008, 04:19 AM	#7
Lars Siden Major Player Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sweden, Stockholm Posts: 436	Dana, I live in Sweden, here the page loads in about 45 seconds(I have a 24/8mbit connection). My impression is that you are refering to material outside the hosting server? ie. you are linking to video/pictures on another server on the net? The only "big" gfx I can see on the page is the animated title-banner, don't know how large that might be in kb's? // Lazze __________________ Canon HV-20(PAL),Canon 20D,Q9450@3.4, 8gb OCZ PC10000 memory, 2x750gb(Stripe) + 2x1Tb(stripe), Geforce 8800 GTS 512mb G92, HP 24" LCD, Vista Ultimate 64 bits

July 22nd, 2008, 12:59 PM	#2
Chris Davis Major Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Willmar, MN Posts: 419	Why do you have everything on one page? It reminds me of a Geocities page from 1996! :) Your site looks nice, you just need to split it up into about six pages. That would take care of your load time and site useability.

July 22nd, 2008, 08:51 PM	#6
Chris Davis Major Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Willmar, MN Posts: 419	It took about 20 seconds to load. I tried it on both PCs on my desktop and had the same result.

July 23rd, 2008, 04:30 AM	#8
Pietro Impagliazzo Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Rio de Janeiro, BR Posts: 156	Everything is one page and it's using anchor when you click the links. That's very... odd! I think other users already said it'd be nice to split up. __________________ vimeo.com/impa

July 23rd, 2008, 06:06 AM	#9
Krystian Dobak New Boot Join Date: May 2008 Location: Swindon UK Posts: 9	Hi! I have no problems with opening it. It takes about 5 sec on my 2Mbit.

July 23rd, 2008, 03:24 PM	#10
Dana Salsbury Major Player Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 566	I read something that said for optimization, put everything on the home page. Bad advice. I'm splitting it up. I'm looking into an Iframe solution to have my videos in the same place, but loading new videos/pages with a next button. Would that help the initial load. Another alternative is trying (again) to figure out the JW Player playlist. I don't know if that would give me the same loading nightmare because I have a lot of videos. __________________ www.LegacyHDV.com \| www.DiamondVideography.com Weddings \| Corporate \| FX1s \| FCS2 \| Encore \| Blu-Ray \| Flash8 \| Quad \| Leopard

July 24th, 2008, 02:18 PM	#11
Dana Salsbury Major Player Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 566	One of the Hostmonster hard drives "crashed", so several of my sites and all of my email has been down 14hrs now. I thought I was pretty smart switching from GoDaddy. Should I start looking again, or is this a universal possibility with all ISPs? When it comes back up, I'll have rebuilt my site. Thank you guys for your help!! __________________ www.LegacyHDV.com \| www.DiamondVideography.com Weddings \| Corporate \| FX1s \| FCS2 \| Encore \| Blu-Ray \| Flash8 \| Quad \| Leopard

July 25th, 2008, 09:04 AM	#12
Chris Davis Major Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Willmar, MN Posts: 419	A crash is always possible, but 14 hours? That's unbelievable for a national host. I've used 1&1 for years and never had a problem.

July 25th, 2008, 11:47 AM	#13
Dana Salsbury Major Player Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 566	Hostmonster server crash Hostmonster went down again all last night. Then this morning I find that they have lost ALL MY UPDATES for the last two weeks. I just kissed away 60-80 hours worth of work because they don't backup their servers! A backup every two weeks is PATHETIC for a national company. Even my new email account with them is gone. Any suggestions on a REAL host? (very frustrated) __________________ www.LegacyHDV.com \| www.DiamondVideography.com Weddings \| Corporate \| FX1s \| FCS2 \| Encore \| Blu-Ray \| Flash8 \| Quad \| Leopard

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