Is my site loading a little faster?

Posted by Tricia in Friday, August 24th 2007   

Please tell me my site is loading a little bit faster. Please?

Late yesterday evening or early this morning I noticed that my blogs were hanging and not loading well at all. It seems that the blogcatalog widget was having trouble loading. In fact the blogcatalog site wasn’t loading either when I went to visit it.

I got fed up with waiting as much as ten minutes for my sites to load. So I went and took the mybloglog and blogcatalog widgets off my sites. I know they’ve each slowed my sites in the past and I know that this blog in particular can be slow loading.

I also realize that my sidebars load before the content. I’ve tried every way I know how to change my site so that the content loads first, but every time I try to change it my whole blog crashes. This theme just does not want to do anything but have the sidebars load first.

It might be time to change the theme.

So apart from the sidebars loading first. Do you think my page loaded a little bit faster when you visited today?

Please say it did.

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BeachBum (1 comments.) said in August 24th, 2007 at 7:01 am    

I don’t know how fast your site loaded before, but I thought the load time was ok. You could consider an ad rotation script and cut back on the number of items in your side bar. That might help a little.

BeachBum

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Flap (21 comments.) said in August 24th, 2007 at 8:59 am    

I think about the same. My internet connection is fairly fast and loading pages never seems to be a problem.

How has your server load been lately?

Better?

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TDavid (4 comments.) said in August 24th, 2007 at 9:39 am    

Here’s a good tool you can use to check your page loading speed whenever you want:
http://www.webwait.com/#www.feverishthoughts.com/

That’s showing over six seconds on page loading, which is on the slow side. You should shoot for something that loads in under 3 seconds, 1-2 if you really want to turn on first visitors (especially those on dial-up).

Hope this helps :)

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Early Riser (1 comments.) said in August 24th, 2007 at 1:51 pm    

I’m first time at your site so I can’t say if it’s slower or faster now, but it does take up 10 seconds to load on my DSL line. Luckily I’m using Firefox which start displaying content as soon as it’s loading so it OK for me.

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Jean-Luc Picard (294 comments.) said in August 24th, 2007 at 2:48 pm    

It seems to be more or less the same. I always put it down to my computer.

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Lisa (31 comments.) said in August 24th, 2007 at 3:40 pm    

I’m running a base DSL connection here at work and it does seem to be loading a lot faster. Usually the sidebars would load first and then it would hang for a good ten seconds or so…now the header comes up, the sidebars roll down and the content rolls right in after that, almost like it’s “flowing” in!

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WendyWings (17 comments.) said in August 25th, 2007 at 2:19 am    

I am on dial up and it does seem marginally faster, it does take a long time though unfortunetly, good thing I am patient lol.

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Lisa (31 comments.) said in August 25th, 2007 at 9:37 pm    

Now that I’m home on my cable connection, the right sidebar hangs on the Glam network ads for a bit.

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