How to speed up pixelpost?

[doffer]

Now that I got the whole thing up and running, i thought of the fact that my site is quite slow. There ain't a lot of graphics and things like that, but it's slow anyway.

Does anyone know some ways to speed it up?

[Joe[y]]

personally mine runs like lightning - are you sure it's not your server being a bit snailish?

[doffer]

I have thought about it...

But other sites I've had on the same server have been fine :s

[Joe[y]]

did these other sites run on php? because that puts more of a load on the server, as it is a SERVERside script.

you could be right - but I honestly haven't noticed anything slow with pixelpost sites.

[doffer]

I've tested it out now... And it helped a bit when i removed insufficient java and put the css in an external file. But if you could test it? And just tell me how it goes... Then I at least would have your opinion... And probably you cold tell me what cind of connection you have too?

[Joe[y]]

i run a 300k dsl connection. the site loaded fairly quickly... faster than most sites - though the thumbs were a bit slow but you can always adjust quality of those.

[doffer]

Oki, thanks.

Hard for me to tell wether it's slow to load or not, I just sometimes get a feeling. I'm on a 1,2Mbit so it's quite fast.

I'll adjust the quality of the thumbs.

Thanks and good night.

[GeoS]

Your server is fast (test made at 1AM).

If you still have problem it can be also cause by MySQL. Maybe some users are killing MySQL server at your machine??

PS It's good idea to put all stuff (which is almost at all pages) to standalone file. It that case browser should put it into own cache and at next request give it from this cache. This speeds up browsing the site.

[Rob]

Your site is fast for me at 11pm EST.

If you want to speed up Pixelpost, there are a few things you can do.

- Remove all addons that you don't use from the addons directory.
- Remove the copyright comments at the top of every PHP page (minor speedup, just less to parse).
- Remove code that you don't use from index.php, especially commenting out the str_replace calls for tags that you don't use.
- Use the preload mentioned in another post to load the previous days image.

All of this won't gain you a lot. I should run some tests and see how much of a difference it does make though.

[blinking8s]

runs fine for me here...

[doffer]

Ok. Thanks guys!

Nice to know that the site ain't too snaily!

I'll remove comments and stuff :)

[-okapi-]

If you want to speed up Pixelpost, there are a few things you can do.
...
- Use the preload mentioned in another post to load the previous days image.


i have currently 549 images online, and i find that pixelpost is getting slow.
i'm very interested in preloading images (forward and backward), but i couldn't find a related posting by searching the forum.
can anybody help? how can preloading of images be done with pixelpost?

thanks,
michael

[raminia]

You feel it slow when you upload images? Or when visiting the main page or archive page?

[-okapi-]

hi ramin,
i feel it kind of slow while switching from one (not previously loaded) image to another.
maybe this is quite normal with php and a large number of photos.
anyway, i would really appreciate a preload funtionality for the previous and the next image, while viewing a photo.

[raminia]

hmmm.... strange. it should not be like that.

[GeoS]

@okapi: I think that is problem with i-net connection of your ISP not problem of PP speed.

If something loads slowly that means that connection is slow.

If you must wait for a while before it stats to load it mean that PP is going to be slow.