Joomla problems

[NewBiz 10]

Hi All

 

I'm started working with a client yesterday, and I was hoping someone could shed some light on why this site http://www.mmsignsolutions.co.uk doesn't display properly in some browsers, and is very slow to load. It's built in Joomla.

 

It's also not optimised at all to talk of, which they are now aware of and we'll be looking to help them remedy.

 

Many thanks for reading and any help would be gratefully received.

 

Cheers

[Nickscape 10]

Use this > http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

 

The page loads 2.8 Mb which is quite high but not out of the ordinary, use TinyPNG to compress the graphics.

 

The problem seems to be trying when to find the site, it takes 8 seconds to locate the site, once it finds it the page loads like normal. Not that technical myself but would suggest something to do with the link between the web address/DNS servers?

[NewBiz 10]

Use this > http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

 

The page loads 2.8 Mb which is quite high but not out of the ordinary, use TinyPNG to compress the graphics.

 

The problem seems to be trying when to find the site, it takes 8 seconds to locate the site, once it finds it the page loads like normal. Not that technical myself but would suggest something to do with the link between the web address/DNS servers?

 

Thanks for that Nickscape. Does anyone have any ideas how to sort the 'not displaying in certain browsers' problem please?

[SportsTrophy 10]

Joomla is normally set up in a folder and then a rewrite rule places it to the http://www.website.co.uk.

Have a look at the main htaccess file or your control panel redirects.

Compress the images with photoshop as a slow loading site is useless and damaging.

This one page site can never be optimised as authority is gained by follow through of linked pages, and could be seen to have a 100% bounce rate.

[allysum 10]

The other sites running through the same nameservers also aren't the quickest to load. On top of that it seems the site is hosted on generic shared hosting which may not have the speediest of bandwidth available.

 

This is in addition to the heavy content size already mentioned by Nickscape. Some of this is in due to the scripts running on the page, and scripts can also contribute to browser issues.

 

As for not displaying all browsers this is generally a template and javascript issue and would probably need a programmer/designer to look at it or swap the template theme out. Some template themes are just very heavy weight, particularly if they came from a packaged template site rather than a custom designer.

 

Use things like the element analysis in Firefox and Wappalyzer to see what's running to get the page displayed. In my personal opinion I've no idea why shared hosting companies offer Joomla, Drupal etc in their one-click package options because the servers and the bandwidth just are not up to supporting them.

[NewBiz 10]

Thanks for all your replies, really helfpul

[Zaphod 10]

Can you direct the domain http://www.mmsignsolutions.co.uk/ to a temporary minimal website and see how it loads. The browser says that it is waiting so it may not be anything to do with the content at all but the hosting. Chrome developer tools tells me that browser is waiting 7.49 seconds for TTFB (time to first byte) before the content even loads. Doing a quick google on Joomla and TTFB folks are going on about cheking plugins and turning on caching. Good luck!

Edited September 11, 2015 by Zaphod