slow loading site

starcrafttom · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:28 pm Post subject: slow loading site

Is it just me or is the site loading kind of slow. I have dsl cable so its pretty damm fast and all other sites are loading instantly except for the brats? any ideas?

TyBoo · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject:

Hey Tom -

It ain't you, friend. It is usually due to the server (leased space) that holds our content. It isn't the software or size of the site itself.

Way down at the bottom of the screen, in little bitty type, you'll see someting like this on every page:

Page generation time: 0.1832s (PHP: 85% - SQL: 15%) - SQL queries: 16 - GZIP disabled - Debug on

When you have a particularly slow load time, check out those numbers and copy/paste them into a PM to Da Nag. It lets him determine first if it's our fault, and then gives him some whining ammo if it is the server's fault.

Or something like that. If I'm all wrong, Da Nerd will lambaste me for sure. But if you keep him buried in enough PM's, maybe he won't get a chance.

Da Nag · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject:

The most important number in those details is the page generation time - the number listed is in seconds. The number indicates how long the web server took to generate the page you are viewing. Ideally, that number should always be below 5 seconds or so - if we were the only ones on this server, it would always be under one second.

It's not really rocket science - basically, when things are slow on your end, it's almost always for one of two reaons:

- The site is slow. Being on a shared server, things happen. Somebody could write some code that's not efficient, or one of the web sites on the server we share could be encountering a bunch of traffic. When this happens, you'll see the page generation time start to go up - I typically call in a problem when it start to get to 15 seconds or higher.

- Something between you and the C-Brat site is slow. If pages are taking far longer to load on your PC than the page generation time shows, the problem lies somewhere between the C-Brat server and your PC. Typically, there's nothing you can do about this except wait for things to get better, unless things are slow for you everywhere - in which case you should contact your ISP.

I've not noticed a major slowdown here in the last couple days, but I'll keep an eye on it.