SLOW on first visit?

[quote name=‘Lantan’]Hello cheestudio,





I’ve looked at your licensed domains in your Help Desk account and visited your websites. I was able to see the CS-Cart based website that has ‘green’ in its domain name (I am not sure if you want to share this domain name here), the rest were closed.



Its entire home page loaded not more than 2-3 seconds for me (it was my first visit). So I am not sure, why you experience 30-40 second delay you reported.



Please post your website here and let the other forum members to check how fast it is.



If you still experience the problem with your CS-Cart installations, please contact us via your Customer Help Desk account and our support team will be happy to assist you.



Thank you.[/QUOTE]



Hi there Alex and thanks for the response…the sites are:



[url]http://artfxjewelry.com/index.php[/url]



and



[url]http://greengenerationbaby.com/[/url]



Anybody here want to let me know what they experience? I’m pretty this this is a local problem but as stated before, I haven’t the slightest clue since the two sites act the same but are located with two completely different hosts.

The first site loaded slightly faster for me, but both were fully loaded in under 4 seconds.



I have never been to either of these sites.

Both took way over 20-30 s to load. Something wrong here.

[quote name=‘quaxinvn’]Both took way over 20-30 s to load. Something wrong here.[/QUOTE]



I feel you, i am not sure why but i have noticed that a lot on my site. I dont think its my hosting because i am with gatorhost VPS servers.

It seems like a cache problem i am not 100% on it. I know every time i visit the website from a new computer it takes a while then on the second and other visits it loads up in 2-3 seconds. I have tried it at work, at home, library, friends computers, and it just seems like something is hogging it.

Hope this will be fixed in other cs-cart updates.

Please remember that 1st time performance (discounting the server/store cache) is as much a function of the amount of graphics you have as it is loading the css files and the pages themselves.



The way to approach this is to use tools like the Firebug page timing tools that will tell you exactly where the time is being spent.



You can guess till the cows come home, but acquiring and analyzing actual data will tell you exactly what’s going on.



Clear your browser cache and load up the demo home page.

Clear your browser cache and load up your page.



The difference will be your site unique characteristics. Especailly if you use large flash files, scrollers and otehr data intensive look/feel things. Everything has a cost and that’s why you need to decide if that wizzy picture thingy is really worth 10 seconds of load time for a user.

2-3 seconds for both

I have freshly installed cs-cart 2.1.4 Community version and it is so slow that it loads up the text version of the website.



I have not even ANY product or users or anything…



the sites above took about 6 seconds from first click to full page.



www.jaysdecalshop.com

You don’t have your path set correctly Michael



Open config.local.php and set these variables to this below



```php // Host and directory where software is installed on no-secure server

$config[‘http_host’] = ‘www.jaysdecalshop.com’;

$config[‘http_path’] = ‘’;



// Host and directory where software is installed on secure server

$config[‘https_host’] = ‘www.jaysdecalshop.com’;

$config[‘https_path’] = ‘’; ```





Your code now is showing an extra / to css and js files

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hey thank you for that, such fast response.



Very much appreciate your help!!

I have see that many times what here will discussed. It is like the website must waked up and then its running, but only the first time. But i dont know why it is. But i have send this cs-cart a long time ago.

[quote name=‘Triplex’]I have see that many times what here will discussed. It is like the website must waked up and then its running, but only the first time. But i dont know why it is. But i have send this cs-cart a long time ago.[/QUOTE]



The cache is being rebuilt on first access for many of the Registry entries. I think (but not positive) that Features and Filters are rebuilt when accessed the first time but they could also be being rebuilt at this time.

[quote name=‘quaxinvn’]Both took way over 20-30 s to load. Something wrong here.[/QUOTE]

Correction: Please ignore this post. The network I was on at that time was slow.

I can definitely confirm this is happening for me as well, on two CS-Cart sites I recently launched on Media Temple (dv) and (gs) servers, respectively -



[url]http://weegallery.com/store/art-cards/[/url]

[url]http://pardonmyhindi.com/shop/[/url]



This initial load time is significantly greater than all subsequent loads. I’m curious to know what’s being done about this, or if there are any solutions and/or workarounds.