Christopher needs Tech Support.

aJ, Haas.. anybody besides Christine.. who knows some coding..
Why are my pages taken so long to create? Example..
This post
Take 800+ Queries.. and 7.8 seconds to CREATE WTF.
This site is on a dedicated fast server.. it show be flying.. I need some serious suggestions with how to speed it up without ruining the design..

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42 Responses to Christopher needs Tech Support.

  1. Christine says:

    You know… he doesn’t want my advice because he’s pissed off that after teaching me how to use Cute FTP and Dreamweaver, I’ve basically out-skilled him in like 2 months… Christopher hates to think that I can do anything faster or better than he can… which is why he specifically asked me not to comment. And for that reason, I am specifically going to be the first one to comment on this. Now that I’ve done that… I hope someone can help him with this problem. ;-)

  2. Christine 2 says:

    Red Bull…it gives you pings!

  3. Keith says:

    Hell I’m just impressed chris actually openly asked for help =d>

  4. aJ says:

    I could give you a couple of reasons why your pages are taking so long. _These reasons_ are only from what I pertain from viewing your site and is only a surface examination..
    For one, the images in the Syndicate/feeds section, host them on your server. It will improve performance a bit. The same for the various voting icons after each post (Del.icio.us, furl etc etc.)
    Next, I’ve heard(and on my use felt) that the “polls” section is a bit slow. Could be the plugin I tried or something else, but it does cause lags.
    You could also move the blog info stats to it’s own page instead of the sidebar. The link to that page can be _statically_ put in the sidebar.
    Try and disable these for a couple of days and see if the performance improves.
    The page that you have mentioned is slow mainly due to the huge number of comments it has. That is taking a bit of time, *but*, even with that many comments, it’s still taking far too long. Can you try and investigate the indexes in the articles and the comments table. They _might_ be corrupted..
    Last, turn on caching.. It should be on by default but, if by some chance you have turned it off, then turn it back on. And also enable the option to serve gzipped version of the pages. That should compress their sizes and enable faster transfer. The caveat to this, I think not all browsers support gzipped content. I know IE, FF and Opera do. No idea about Safari and Konqueror or any other browser out there..
    Hope this helps a bit :)

  5. aJ says:

    Ohh… Just went through the post again and I think the IP lookup for the country code and the corresponding flag for that country would also add to the slowdown.

  6. Christopher says:

    aJ,

    Thanks for all the good feedback, I also thought it might have to do with the countries, gravatars, and database issue… fun fun. I’m going to go through each thing and see whats up ;)

    Thanks again.

  7. Haas says:

    Chris look into what u added recently… IP lookup, flags ect were already there for a long time and they seemed to work fine back then.
    Maybe its a new plugin u tried… I hv had bad experiences with plugins(sometimes the support from the creator suddenly goes and it keeps trying to connect to their site)
    I dont think the prob is with the db unless
    a) you decided to fix something in there that was working :P
    b) you upgraded or moved the files and restored them.
    Anyway backtracking is the best way to narrow down these speed issues(try to contact ur site support as well they might hv prob from their side)

  8. aJ says:

    Actually Haas, I’ve always noticed the site a bit slower than other WP sites.
    Like you, I think he uses a lot of plugins and hotlinks to external images as well ;)
    I usually maintain a rule for my blog, at no point have more than 5-6 _Frontend_ plugins active. They _will_ slow down the blog, even if by a little. So, if each slows down the rendering by say, half a second, it adds up to 2.5 seconds already.
    (I know, .5 sec is a large number. It was just an example.)

  9. Keith says:

    Damn AJ’s the man witht the info..Chris whatever you re-did it’s working remarkably well. Site is running 5x faster over here nice work bra!

  10. Christine says:

    Yes… much better! The girl is happy… :*

  11. eric says:

    ok you guys hooked it up, props

  12. Keith says:

    If all it takes is a fast website to make you happy you would be real easy to please by comparison:\”>

  13. Christopher says:

    Dude.. she meant she was happy for the next 8 seconds. Ask her how many times she has been happy, unhappy, happy, unhappy with me today.. and it has NOTHING TO DO WITH ME I ASSURE U. :)

  14. Keith says:

    Damn..that bi-polar shit is no joke stay away! =;

  15. Christine says:

    I wasn’t bi-polar, psychotic, or suicidal until September 2004… oh wait… that’s the exact same month I met Christopher… what a coincidence. I’m sure it has NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM THOUGH. At least that’s what he makes me chant 25 times before he’ll let go of my hair. @-)

  16. Keith says:

    Ahh but we cannot change the past only the future, and you are admitting to being bi-polar! Jeeesh! Bi-polar disease is something you are born with not contract. It just takes longer to develop in some ppl. What a coincidence it just came out on ‘04 Feel fortunate you had so many good years! It’s official now chris stay far away… ;) Don’t feel too bad christine they make very good meds now to help ppl with bi-polar cope with it and lead normal lives. I’ll look up a good one at work tomorrow when I go to the office and let you know!:)>-

  17. Christine 2 says:

    Well whatever it is I think you should put the top commentors thing back up. I’m not so happy now that I can’t see it. :(

  18. Christine 2 says:

    Or at least finish the 10 centers page…

  19. Keith says:

    Christine 2 said, “I think you should put the top commentors thing back up. I?m not so happy now that I can?t see it.” I think you are officially behind me now. ^:)^ Although I like it better being behind you! ;)

  20. Christopher says:

    Christine 2 I’ll get back on it tomorrow! Just for u hun!

  21. aJ says:

    Chris, you could probably put all those stats up on a seperate page of it’s own and provide a link to it!
    And yes, the site _has_ sped up over the last couple of days. The pages now take less than a second to create :)

  22. Keith says:

    Hey christine 2 it appears that I’m still behind you, which I supposeis where you like me ;) , however I don’t suppose I’ll be there for long, hope you into position changing alot! :d

  23. Christine says:

    Aaahhh… double entendres… I get it ;-) Dirty, dirty… :-D

  24. Christopher says:

    I’m NOT surprised Christine got that at all.. especially after walking in on her VAST sex toy collection the other night.. lets just say Christine is a dirty dirty girl who doesn’t seem to mind multitasking.

  25. Christine says:

    Well… sex toys or not… I don’t care what you all do as long as I stay “on top.” ;-)

  26. Keith says:

    I enjoy the bottom as well it’s all good ;)

  27. eric says:

    holy shit guys a woman who is opinionated and likes to be on top in the sack too? the next thing she’ll say is she likes to give oral because she gets total control? it like stern left fucking xm! phenominal=d> ok maybe the sarcasm was lost in the charachters

  28. Keith says:

    Entendres..good word christina. Did you try to teach that word yet? Some of our more remedial readers might not know what it means though! haha =))

  29. Christine says:

    Oh Eric… if you only knew… when it comes to getting down and dirty with a boy… I’m far from the type of girl that likes to be in control. ;-)

    Here’s a joke… What do Eric’s comments and a Lamaze class have in common?

    Answer: Absolutely no periods. :d

  30. eric says:

    what does christine and kfc have in common? after you’re done with the breasts and thighs all you have left is a greasy box to throw your bone in;)

  31. Christopher says:

    that’s pretty damn close to a draw… :-t

  32. eric says:

    you know if i start to worry about periods as much as everyone else does, i’ll buy fucking stock in tampax,…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………here are your goddamn periods now take a midol and fall back and rest your neck[-(

  33. Christopher says:

    periods are for pussies :o

  34. Christine says:

    LOL! =d> I think I hit a nerve. =))

  35. eric says:

    thatwas my attempt at celebrating international women’s day with irrational thoughts, you know how a woman acts , speak first, use brain second? yeah i thought you’d like that:d

  36. Keith says:

    =)) defintely a draw there touche’ you 2! now play nice! I don’t want to have to get “between” u 2 ;)

  37. aJ says:

    Oooh.. Someone really is getting very touchy here :D :P

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