[phpMan2010]

i gotta speed up a site for a customer - takes forever to load

its just html - no php

where to start?

[Cruise Elroy]

Well, almost nothing is faster than serving up plain ol' HTML pages so you're probably looking at a problem with basic server performance or possibly bandwidth. How big are the pages and how long do they take to load? Are there a lot of graphics on the pages?

[cuberat]

Run your page(s) through http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

If you don't already have firebug (a Firefox plugin) and YSlow, install them and use them.

http://getfirebug.com/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

[phpMan2010]

using the tools you guys posted, i found that the issue was image references within the css - so when the home page loaded, it was loading all the banners for every page on the site

i moved the banners into the html as img tags and its running much faster

tx!

[UnrealEd]

If you aren't already using it, try gzipping your content before sending it to the client. There's an easy to use .htaccess setting that allows you to do it automatically:

Code:  select

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

For more information, check this site:
http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-optimize-your-site-with-gzip-compression/