Why is Pligg slow even with gzip compression?

[innerboy]

Do you enable "Private Messaging". It slowed my pligg in my case.

[dollars5]

I am not sure whether this works - I connect from a 512 kbps connection - the full site loads in just 1.34 seconds (I test with Firebug extension for FireFox) - but the results are totally different with the http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ service - dunno how far it is true. i even went on to try with a dial-up over the phoneline which rendered the site in 28.77 seconds.

The site is http:/memeorlame.com and the results as presented by the above service:
14.4K 263.20 seconds
28.8K 137.60 seconds
33.6K 119.66 seconds
56K 76.59 seconds
ISDN 128K 31.78 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 13.72 seconds

[Simon]

If you want to test downloading time, use the FireFox extension FireBug. Then you can download an application like Sloppy to test at different connection speeds. The websiteoptimization.com test is not always accurate.

See this thread for more information on FireBug and Sloppy:

Slow it down with Sloppy

[rohitsax]

Originally Posted by kbeeveer46

Another good way to decrease load times is to get rid of the "Add to:" section. All those images are loaded for each story on your page. So if you have 5 of those images and 10 stories on your front page it's loading 50 images. I tested it and it shaved even more time off.

What 'add to' section is this? Can you elaborate so I can use that to cut down load times.

thanks,

[Yankidank]

The Add To feature lets users submit the story to Digg, Reddit, Netscape, etc. You can manually remove this from your template or just turn it off from the Pligg Admin panel.

1. Log in as a "god" level user
2. Navigate to your installation directory /admin_config.php?page=Summary
3. Change the value for the Enable AddTo field to "false"

To manually remove from template delete the following from link_summary.tpl:

      {if $Enable_AddTo eq 1}
               <img src="{$my_pligg_base}/templates/{$the_template}/images/add.gif" align="absmiddle"/>
              <a href="javascript://" onclick="var replydisplay=document.getElementById('addto-{$link_shakebox_index}').style.display ? '' : 'none';document.getElementById('addto-{$link_shakebox_index}').style.display = replydisplay;"> {#PLIGG_Visual_LS_AddThisLinkTo#}</a>&nbsp;
      {/if}

and...

       {if $Enable_AddTo eq 1}
           <span id="addto-{$link_shakebox_index}" style="display:none"><br />{#PLIGG_Visual_LS_AddTo#}
                    &nbsp;&nbsp;<a title="submit '{$title_short}' to del.icio.us" href="http://del.icio.us/post" onclick="window.open('http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&amp;noui&amp;jump=close&amp;url={$enc_url}&amp;title={$enc_title_short}', '{#PLIGG_Visual_LS_Delicious#}','toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); return false;"><img src="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}/templates/{$the_template}/images/delicious.png" border="0" alt="submit '{$title_short}' to del.icio.us" /></a>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp;<a title="submit '{$title_short}' to digg" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url={$enc_url}&amp;title={$title_short}&amp;bodytext={$story_content}"><img src="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}/templates/{$the_template}/images/digg.png" border="0" alt="submit '{$title_short}' to digg" /></a>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp;<a title="submit '{$title_short}' to reddit" href="http://reddit.com/submit?url={$enc_url}&amp;title={$title_short}"><img src="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}/templates/{$the_template}/images/reddit.gif" border="0" alt="submit '{$title_short}' to reddit" /></a>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp;<a title="submit '{$title_short}' to simpy" href="http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href={$enc_url}&amp;title={$title_short}"><img src="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}/templates/{$the_template}/images/simpy.png" border="0" alt="submit '{$title_short}' to simpy" /></a>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp;<a title="submit '{$title_short}' to yahoo" href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u={$enc_url}&amp;title={$title_short}"><img src="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}/templates/{$the_template}/images/yahoomyweb.png" border="0" alt="submit '{$title_short}' to yahoo" /></a>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="javascript:bookmarksite('{$title_url}', '{$enc_url}')">{#PLIGG_Visual_LS_Fav_Book#}</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
           </span>
       {/if}

[zearth]

I trim down the code in link_summary.tpl as well some template. I also remove some javascript features as well recoded the css layout of the site. The loading speed of my pligg site loads much faster than the original setup of pligg, at least 3 to 4 times faster than before.

[vrajesh]

I trim down the code in link_summary.tpl as well some template. I also remove some javascript features as well recoded the css layout of the site. The loading speed of my pligg site loads much faster than the original setup of pligg, at least 3 to 4 times faster than before.

Hi,

I joined this forum mainly because of my pligg domain slowness. I am sure Pligg is slow yet.

I request developers to see in the view of "user is right" (you dont need to think "always right" ) .

While searching for a query "is pligg slow" , i straightly jumped to this thread. I hope the quoted solution helps me. Thank you,

Regards,

Vrajesh

[jc007]

Originally Posted by vrajesh

Hi,

I joined this forum mainly because of my pligg domain slowness. I am sure Pligg is slow yet.

I request developers to see in the view of "user is right" (you dont need to think "always right" ) .

While searching for a query "is pligg slow" , i straightly jumped to this thread. I hope the quoted solution helps me. Thank you,

Regards,

Vrajesh

Hi Vrajesh,

First I had the same problem, then I found out that it was my hosting "Go Daddy" then I had to buy a dedicated IP for it.

Hope this help.

[GDFH]

It is slow because use smarty. Im working in a new version, more php and less smarty, but still using templates. If you disable, for example, avatars and spell check your pligg will load faster.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by GDFH

It is slow because use smarty. Im working in a new version, more php and less smarty, but still using templates. If you disable, for example, avatars and spell check your pligg will load faster.

Ash is also working on speed issues in the core code (and they will be sizeable improvements!).