Help Speed My Site Up

Sergeant Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 95

Hi for the past two hours I've been searching this site and all over the web on how to speedup my nuke site:

www.FloridaWakeboarding.com

I added some tweaks to my mainfile.php that I saw in one of the other threads. It loaded the page a little faster, but nothing drastic.

Can someone review my site and tell me how I can improve loading time.

Thanks

Sergeant Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 95

anyone

Private Joined: Jul 29, 2004 Posts: 41

Hi,
i am no expert but if you reduce the amount of stroies on the front page could this speed the process up?

Sergeant Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 95

I guess but I doubt that will increase the speed substancially. Any other suggestions or comments on this idea?

Sergeant Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 75

remove your events and forum blocks

BTW where are the credits ?

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:59 pm

get rid of the random pic block that is accessing an outside website. That should make your page load faster. When I viewed your page that is what was holding the page load up. Other than that it looked pretty good.

you can also add the mainfile.php speed hacks and add the gzip compression speed hack to the mainfile.php

Sergeant Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 95

My credits are in the footer and in my source code.

Noble I'll try to get rid of that later and see how much faster it becomes thanks!

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:42 pm

wakeboarder wrote:

Hi for the past two hours I've been searching this site and all over the web on how to speedup my nuke site:
www.FloridaWakeboarding.com
I added some tweaks to my mainfile.php that I saw in one of the other threads. It loaded the page a little faster, but nothing drastic.
Can someone review my site and tell me how I can improve loading time.
Thanks

1) Tweaks to mainfile.php? Which exactly? On forum were described only part of them. You can speed up other functions with same way.
2) Get rid of your Survey module/block. It's highly loads DB. For example you could use much more advanced Survey block/module (though without possibility of attach to article and comments system).
http://nukecops.com/downloads-file-386-details-Very_advanced_survey_poll_module_EdogsOpros.html
3) Get rid from your navigation block. Use STATIC html instead. It will saves you a lot of queries to DB.
4) Rewrite News module. It's damn thing. Too many queries. Rewrite recursive queries to DB with couple of queries which will use "left join" and etc.
5) Every block/module which just COUNT something regularly uses sql_numrows. Use simple query with COUNT query instead. Mostly it have to be done in "member login module"
6) Delete all stupid statistics. Use some free counter, or just analize your apache logs

or... just pay some money to professionals like us:-) Our main site uses not more than 25 queries (fast enough) on most pages (for users). We left all statistics and full compatibility. Before optimization, standart php-nuke used 80-120 queries (many slow from them). We used nothing more than we adviced higher, but if it done correctly, it gives very good results. We stop hearing our "angry hoster" Smile

which were angry with php-nuke load to server, and time generation of page decreased for about second or more.

or/and... buy a good hosting in addition:-)

From other hand. Have in mind. That if your site get information from other sites, you could have delay because of this. And there are no other way to optimize it except caching. But this is separate question.

Sergeant Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 95

Thanks, I removed the Random Pics block and it did speed it up. I will be doing some things that edogs suggested as well. Also I'm hosting a dedicated server so I expect it to go fast Smile

Thanks!