Revamping our website

[Mattie]

Hi

We are currently revamping our website a little and wonder what everyone thinks.

We are also looking in to getting a mobile website so customers can buy from there mobile, we're just waiting on some designs and quotes coming back.

[John G]

Don't now if its my connection, laptop or what - but its painfully slow!

[Mattie]

Don't now if its my connection, laptop or what - but its painfully slow!

Sometimes it can be bit slow working with hosting company to sort this

[mrs maggot]

it was slow for me too, what version of prestashop are you running now ?? im hoping to get the full new release soon

[JSR]

Painfully slow to open here. The window is blank for quite a long time before everything pops up.

Looking at the Page Info, I would suggest that you look at optimising your graphics. For example, there are six "slides/banner.jpg" graphics which presumably pre-load for javascript rotation or something (I can't be sure because I have NoScript running which disables your javascript anyway). Each of those is at least 100K, totalling 700K that needs pre-loading before the page will display. That will kill the page loading times on its own. Try disabling that and see how much more quickly the page loads.

In addition to that, some of your graphics are PNGs when you'd be better off making them optimised JPGs or GIFs. For example, your logo is 40K and the phone numbers is another 40K. You could probably make them both under 10K with no change in quality.

And there are three other "custom" graphics (the ones down the right-hand side) which together weigh in at 100K. Add all of this together, and you're asking the browser to load almost 1MB of graphics. Ideally, the total page weight should be around 100K - certainly not more than 200K. 1MB is insanity.

You may want to look into optimising your graphics to speed things up.

Design-wise, the site is great with a nice vibrant colour scheme.

[Mattie]

Painfully slow to open here. The window is blank for quite a long time before everything pops up.

Looking at the Page Info, I would suggest that you look at optimising your graphics. For example, there are six "slides/banner.jpg" graphics which presumably pre-load for javascript rotation or something (I can't be sure because I have NoScript running which disables your javascript anyway). Each of those is at least 100K, totalling 700K that needs pre-loading before the page will display. That will kill the page loading times on its own. Try disabling that and see how much more quickly the page loads.

In addition to that, some of your graphics are PNGs when you'd be better off making them optimised JPGs or GIFs. For example, your logo is 40K and the phone numbers is another 40K. You could probably make them both under 10K with no change in quality.

And there are three other "custom" graphics (the ones down the right-hand side) which together weigh in at 100K. Add all of this together, and you're asking the browser to load almost 1MB of graphics. Ideally, the total page weight should be around 100K - certainly not more than 200K. 1MB is insanity.

You may want to look into optimising your graphics to speed things up.

Design-wise, the site is great with a nice vibrant colour scheme.

Hi
I've redesigned website and took on board what you said about images while doing it, I'm nearly finished website but it still seems to be loading slow.

[AdamB]

Yeah it's still a little slow Matthew, but love the re-design mate - well done.

Are you still using presta-shop?

Adam

[Mattie]

Yeah it's still a little slow Matthew, but love the re-design mate - well done.

Are you still using presta-shop?

Adam

Hi Adam

I don't understand it haha it must be hosting company.

yeah i'm still using prestashop i tried 1.4 but it's a load of rubbish so gone back to 1.3.
glad you like it mate it's took me ages still got few things to sort, but hard to find time during orders and moving my shop

[John G]

Like it, but very slow - if we think this, do you think people browsing the net would wait for the page to download?

[Mattie]

Like it, but very slow - if we think this, do you think people browsing the net would wait for the page to download?

Hi
We've never had complaint from a customer yet about the speed i'm just trying to look in to why it's slow.