Speeding Up Website

[PiccoliniBabyStore]

Hi,

 

We're looking for someone that may help us speed up our website as it is very, very slow at the moment.

 

We were told the following as a potential cause:

 

"I know that you have 22 external Javascript scripts, 27 external stylesheets, and 29 external background images.

 

That's a lot of http requests. You can combine each of these scripts, sheets, and images into one. That will definitely decrease your loading time. Alternatively, you can up your server in necessary."

 

We need help with this matter, with someone that will not interrupt our workflow and will not affect our products or database.

 

Please message us for your bid.

 

Thank you.

 

the link to the site is piccolinibabystore.com

[Jiten rash (away)]

go to back office advance performance u can minify html,javascript css into separate single file but thats not helpful id ur main domain loads slow

check ur site here http://tools.pingdom.com/

Edited August 16, 2013 by Jiten rash (see edit history)

[El Patron]

do you have shared hosting environment? you biggest issue:

 

it would appear that either mod_expires module is not enabled on your server or your .htaccess (less likely) does not have the directives set.

 

some (read many) shared hosting environments do not enable mod_expires...please check with your hosting company.

[PiccoliniBabyStore]

More background as to why the speed may be so slow:

 

- Initially, the backoffice and site started with Prestashop. I made a terrible mistake to go to Magento, and in the process, I don't believe I deleted prestahop correctly. I went back to Prestashop, and again, I don't believe I uninstalled Magento properly before using Prestashop again.

 

Hopefully this information helps. Thanks.

[PrestaFanBoy]

do you have shared hosting environment? you biggest issue:

 

it would appear that either mod_expires module is not enabled on your server or your .htaccess (less likely) does not have the directives set.

 

some (read many) shared hosting environments do not enable mod_expires...please check with your hosting company.

 

 

Hello El Patron, 

 

My site  received slow comments too from friends. I dont have any products, hardly 70-80 products. 

 

This is what I see for my shop. 

 

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cfsCiI/omytus.com

 

Can you suggest any improvements based on my stats. 

 

Any help would be much appreciated:)

 

Thank you. 

 

PrestaFanBoy

[El Patron]

you may have more luck contacting your hosting company and explain the situation.

 

as you probably don't have access to mysql cache values etc...and since we do not know your server configuration or package from your host...they may be best in telling you what they see...

 

if you have phpmyadmin, you can click (in some versions) status, this will tell you how optimized your mysql db is....the report if you can find it will even display in red where you db engine needs improvement.

 

remember, other than a few bits an pieces (root files),  your site depends on a speedy mysql.

[PrestaFanBoy]

Thank you El Patron. 

 

Unfortunately, I dint get any info from my hosting company as I am no shared hosting they cant provide me MySQL cache details but mod_expires is installed on the server as told by them.

 

Im on business hosting in Hostgator. 

 

I see the below info in my BO config. 

 

Server information

Server information: Linux #4 SMP Wed May 15 19:43:53 CDT 2013 x86_64

Server software version: Apache

PHP version: 5.2.17

Memory limit: 256M

Max execution time: 30

Database information

MySQL version: 5.5.30-30.2

MySQL engine: InnoDB

Tables prefix: ps_

Store information

Prestashop version: 1.5.3.1

Shop URL: https://omytus.com/

Current theme in use: alysum_2.0

Mail configuration

Mail method: You are using the PHP mail() function.

Your information

Your web browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.57 Safari/537.36

 

No clue how to speed up the DB thing. 

Any suggestions..

PrestaFanBoy

[El Patron]

in all honesty, I'd contact community member dh42, he specializes in speed issues.

 

you can contact him directly on the forum or on his website: http://dh42.com/

[Jiten rash (away)]

the More free modules the more slow site.

nivoslider,products carousel,med_contactable and many modules are there which can dead slow ur site

[benjamin utterback]

Hello El Patron, 

 

My site  received slow comments too from friends. I dont have any products, hardly 70-80 products. 

 

This is what I see for my shop. 

 

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cfsCiI/omytus.com

 

Can you suggest any improvements based on my stats. 

 

Any help would be much appreciated:)

 

Thank you. 

 

PrestaFanBoy

 

 

Hi PrestaFanBoy, I went to your site with no cache and it actually was not loading slow for me at all. Are you on a shared hosting? If so, then that's pretty fast.

[PrestaFanBoy]

Hi PrestaFanBoy, I went to your site with no cache and it actually was not loading slow for me at all. Are you on a shared hosting? If so, then that's pretty fast.

 

Hello Benjamin,

 

Glad to see your reply.

 

Yes, im on shared hosting. Hostgator business plan.

 

My friends complaining that my site is a bit slower. Then I checked at various places like pingdom.com.

 

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/YUUIX/http://omytus.com

 

Load speeds are varying around 4-6 secs. Most part of it is wait time. its easily around 2-3 secs. 

 

Would like to speed it up within possible framework. bring it <2 secs. Just selected all the tables and optimized with the available option in phpmyadmin. couldnt see any difference..

 

Any suggestion:)

 

PrestaFanBoy

[El Patron]

I mentioned in an earlier post that mod_expires did not appear to be active on your shop.

 

This is the best 'bang' for the buck...hopefully you have enabled it.  If you  do not know how contact your hosting company.

[PrestaFanBoy]

I mentioned in an earlier post that mod_expires did not appear to be active on your shop.

 

This is the best 'bang' for the buck...hopefully you have enabled it.  If you  do not know how contact your hosting company.

 

 

Yes, El Patron, 

 

If you are you referring to me..

 

When I asked, I was told that they installed the module on my server though I couldnt verify...

 

How to check it on my shop.

 

Thank you.

 

PrestaFanBoy

[El Patron]

just checked mod_expires, I'm sure it wasn't active when I initially checked but I confuse easily.

 

btw: great job and very nice shop!...crap maybe I could hire you for my tired old module shop.

 

without getting into internal server/mysql tuning...I'm out of back office .htaccess suggestions. 

 

but, if you want to be a viable business then speed is muy importante. 

 

I recommend a minimum of vps...it's worth every penny...especially when the sales start rolling in

 

I'd look for a good managed vps..unless you want to manage it yourself which is easy enough assuming they gen your vps correctly.

 

also I am seeing hosting panels (customers) that allow you to select a country IP address by domain...so you can have multiple gTLD's without being penalized...holy cow...I need a new server environment as well.

 

my plug nickel