Page Slow Loading - only with FlexiContent

kenmcd Thank you VERY much for the pointers. I've gone through and resized some images that they've uploaded that are huge. I've told the client (and all of our clients during training) numerous times about using large images. It never sinks in though.

I've noticed some templates load a lot fast than others, when developing sites with FlexiContent. At first I thought it was something I was doing wrong with configuring FlexiContent so I thought I'd get feedback from you guys to help me.

I really appreciate it!

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One thing you can do is remove bmp,BMP from the acceptable file types in the configuration.
That should at least keep them from uploading those usually huge files within Joomla.
And maybe jog their memory about image sizes.

This type of image resizing takes a lot of the server's memory and processing power.
The performance hit slows all websites on that server.
That could explain some of the server load variability.
See this post in the Joomla forum for more info:
Re: SOBI2 Out of memory when loading/saving images


Something else I noticed on the Monroe website is that scrolling module at the bottom takes a lot of client processor power. Depending on the user's system this could be 20% to 40% of their processor power.
This causes the website to appear slower to them.
The amount of the performance hit depends not only their system capabilities, but also on which browser they are using.
The slower the browser JavaScript performance, the bigger the performance hit.

Easy to test this.
On Windows start Windows Task Manager, select the Performance tab.
Then in your browser,
in one tab open a page with the module, then
in another tab open a page without the module.
Click back and forth between the tabs.
Watch the CPU usage.

I have never found any scrolling module so compelling a user experience that it justified this performance hit.
Instead use a random module to make the same links.
It loads, it's done.

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That's all great information and much appreciated.


We use cloud hosting with Rackspace for all of our hosting - including our clients. However that doesn't fix issues like this when they come up.

Were you using LoadImpact.com tomonitor the loading of a website for the HTTP interactions that you talked about earlier or do you use another tool?

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Generally for everyday use I use the HttpFox extension in Firefox.
I use this with AllVideos Reloaded testing and support as it quickly shows me which files are being called, and 404s, etc.
And it shows the download time for each page element.
It really is an essential tool for web developers.

In this particular case I was using HttpWatch on Firefox.
It supplies more info, shows graphical download time, and has more features than HttpFox.
And you can use HttpWatch with Internet Exploder.
But it is commercial, and expensive.

The Firefox Tamper Data extension also provides a graphical representation of the download times for each page element.
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/966/

The one I would install first for everyday use is HttpFox.
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6647/
Hint: set the option for it to open in its own window.



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yes thanks for informations !

This is all some great information, thank you again for sharing!