Page Slow Loading - only with FlexiContent

I'm not sure what you are asking about on the front page... Could you clarify for me please?

on your front page do you use loding a image field with crop or rezize option ?

I believe so, I'll have to check. There are no images in those 2 articles - which is using a Gavick component.

I switched to a different template and I believe it's helped fix the loading time. I testing it with www.LoadImpact.com right now and the load times are around 6-8 seconds... a little long for me but that's workable now at least.

I'll keep looking into this and will report back my findings today and tomorrow.

I'm using mod_news_pro_gk4 for the "Latest District News" module and there is NO image resizing feature turned on.

As you can see, I added a slide show at the top of the page for demo purposes. Not sure I'll use this slide show module/component or a different one.

Load Impact is showing about a 7 second load time during its test that is current running.

It has to be template related because I have the site on 2 different templates to work on the design and the loading time seems to be much better...

http://www.franklincityschools.com.php5 ... tlink.com/

http://www.franklincityschools.com.php5 ... nk.com/v2/


Is it loading better for you guys now too?

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MonroeOhio.org website
There is a huge BMP image being processed by phpThumb.
On first load this takes over 9 seconds.
www.monroeohio.org/images/stories/city%20bldg.bmp

That image is 1600x1200 and is over 5 MEGAbytes.
You can see the HTTP call when the home page is loaded.
www.monroeohio.org/components/com_flexic...180&h=180&aoe=1&q=95

Changing that huge source image to a much smaller one should help.


Some of the other images could be much smaller.
For example, your original banner bridge PNG (112 KB)
[attachment=0:tpfgcmul]<!-- ia0 -->banner_bridge.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:tpfgcmul]
Converted to a 90% JPG (33 KB)
[attachment=1:tpfgcmul]<!-- ia1 -->banner_bridge.jpg<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:tpfgcmul]

These are just a couple examples.
The Joomla Performance forum has a lot of tips.
These pages could be made much smaller and much faster.


While watching the HTTP interactions . . .
I am seeing a large variability in the download times on images, JavaScript, CSS, etc.
This points to server load effects.

For example this one CSS file has taken as long as 5+ seconds.
www.franklincityschools.com/CFIDE/script.../ext/css/ext-all.css

Same for a couple other CSS files. 4-6 seconds.
Does not seem to be directly related to the file size.
This points to server load effects.

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