AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

My site is having some very slow page load speeds.

I don't know if it's because I have too many graphics in the header,
or because of the web hosting company.

Any comments, advice, or recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks


http://www.super-vits.com/Default.aspx

Loaded relatively fast for me. It could be 10-15% faster I'd say. It's current load time would NOT turn me away if I was a potential customer.

Currently FireFold is slow because of the software it runs on. Looking forward to Able's speed.

I agree with Robbie. The site started sending responses right away. The home page has a lot of individual graphics, so it is slow the first time, but a faster server will not help with that.

If you turn on compression, the page content will reach your customer (and be displayed) a little sooner.

The only problem I saw is that your home page and the one catalog page I tried both reference a file with url "/~/images/spacer.gif" which does not exist.

thanks guys, . .

Currently FireFold is slow because of the software it runs on. Looking forward to Able's speed.

Your site is fast. What software are you currently using?

If you turn on compression, the page content will reach your customer (and be displayed) a little sooner.

Is that a setting in the Able Admin?

The only problem I saw is that your home page and the one catalog page I tried both reference a file with url "/~/images/spacer.gif" which does not exist.

I don't see that. What browser are you using?

Compression is a setting on the server (IIS6 and above) or an add-on for the server (such as HttpZip from port80 software).

I see the 404 (not found) error for spacer.gif using both FireFox (error in FireBug) and IE (error in Fiddler).

Mike718NY wrote:thanks guys, . .

Your site is fast. What software are you currently using?

Currently we are using BVAdmin. Worlds behind Able.

Glad to hear it's fast today though. It will CRAWL some days in heavy usage.

Alexa says:
Speed: Slow - 68% percent of sites online are faster then FireFold

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/firefold.com

Mike I tested and it loaded up pretty fast for my standards, I have Comcast as ISP which you know have issues, but out of my 4 machines (laptops included) your site displayed just fine, I saved it to my favorites for I'm interested on what you offer on vits
Jose
ehubcap.com
dev site http://65.98.245.145

Spacer.gif is a throwback from the days before CSS. You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacer_GIF

Spacer.gif is a throwback from the days before CSS.

But I still use it a lot. It helps when you want precision using tables.

I have Comcast as ISP which you know have issues

Jose, your site is very fast. Are you going to stay with Comcast?