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Desktop Site slow - mobile version fast...what to look for...

n20capri2 Member
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As the title says...when I try to get to the site on a desktop computer it takes forever to load...but on my phone via wifi (on the same internet network) it loads fine...Both are custom themes...

What to look for?
www.mikemartinelli.com is the site.

Thanks,
Mike

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Zenphoto does not really do anything different if mobile or desktop. So that cannot be it. For sure the embedded Youtube videoes do slow down. External embeds can slow down page loading for sure.

    But for all else we cannot answer as we don't know details. It may very well be your theme which is not standard. I also notice that you use Cufon for webfonts which actually should not be needed anymore at all. All modern browser can do that via CSS (I hope you have a webfont licences for Myriad ;-)) So Cufon might slow down as well.
  • fretzl Administrator, Developer
    Looks like you also have two versions of jQuery loaded.
    1.10.0 (from Zenphoto) and 1.4.4
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    The site is currently not available for me at all. What does your host say to all this?
  • n20capri2 Member
    Well I know the Embedded videos aren't helping on the home page but even clicking multimedia or any other page is slow to load...no embedded vids on the other pages.

    I didn't go to the host yet was just thinking I had something funky because the mobile site loads fine. Was coming here looking for things to check. jQUery is one and I'll check Cufon too. Never liked using it but it looks nice. Been forever so I'll look into it. lol
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Normally the mobile site should be slower since mobile devices are naturally (and if not local WIFI of course the connection itself often is, too). That really looks like a server/connection issue to me. Zenphoto should not be that slow.
  • n20capri2 Member
    It appears as if it's the "news" loading on the right side that's slowing things down...I realize it's a lot of info to display but still seems to take too long in my opinion...

    I've reduced the number of items that display to 3 which is MUCH better...

    Below is what I'm doing...is there a better way to do this? If I can optimize and display more items than 3 that would be great.

    <?php printLatestNews ( 15,'with_latest_albums','',true,true,75,false ); ?>

    Much appreciated,
    Mike
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    "with_latest_albums" is obsolete in 1.4.6 actually as the combi news mode is being removed. See the 1.4.6 release post. That is for technical reasons. One is that it it collects info from news and optionally albums or images. That might slow down your already (to me) slow site a bit further.

    If you need to display latest albums only use the image_album_statistics plugin functions.

    I would recommend to use the static_html_cache plugin additionally.
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