Homepage slow loading-Other pages fine

[seo4china]

We have this very strange issue with our affiliated sites China Company Formation, Hong Kong and Offshore Incorporation in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen | Sinovantage International ; homepage takes a long time to load, while other pages load normally. All pages including home page are on same server. Only difference is that the homepage has some links to the latest blog post. I thought this was due to a wordpress bug and upgraded to the latest version, to no avail. Any suggestion on how to fix this? Thanks

[Uncle Dog]

It seems to be hanging around trying to resolve your latest blog post url. Try fixing that first. It's currently blahblahblah FeedForAll_XMLParser.inc.php Shouldn't it just be /FeedForAll_XMLParser.inc ?

Actually I take that back. FeedForAll_XMLParser.inc doesn't even exist (at the given address). FeedForAll_XMLParser.inc.php seems to be there but what it does is a mystery (blank page, blank source).

Everything else is fine because it doesn't have the latest blog post panel.

[ran_dizolph]

I've got custom Atom feed parsers on a couple of websites, and sometimes it can slow the load times down depending on what is in the blog itself.

[SnerdeyWebs]

I like using a tool like this to test out loading times.
Web Page Analyzer - free website optimization tool website speed test check website performance report from web site optimization

Tested yours and it came back with very good results except for a few regarding Objects and Images.

Anything that can help speed up a site will help. But, I'm also thinking you should consider other options for your site, sever.

You might also try this tool Pingdom Tools

[deepsand]

Odd; I just tried it, on both IE6 & FF 3.5, and it loaded in under 3 seconds on both!

[seo4china]

Yes now loading fine. Also latest blog post show fine. This issue happens from time to time. I am starting to wonder if I shouldn't just drop the latest blog posts script from the homepage altogether.

[dozzn]

Originally Posted by SnerdeyWebs

I like using a tool like this to test out loading times.
Web Page Analyzer - free website optimization tool website speed test check website performance report from web site optimization

Tested yours and it came back with very good results except for a few regarding Objects and Images.

Anything that can help speed up a site will help. But, I'm also thinking you should consider other options for your site, sever.

You might also try this tool Pingdom Tools

I agree, another good one is HTML code help, search engine optimization and web site maintenance tools by NetMechanic.

[deepsand]

Here's a potential intermittent problem as well, owing to slow server responses from GA.

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-671096-23");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>

[cw1865]

As a general rule I tend to notice that websites based in China are REALLY slow, this one actually loaded much faster than I am accustomed to. Not quite sure why that is, but mfg sites out of China are brutal to click around on. (Could it be the effects of censorship?)

[deepsand]

Quite possibly so, given the deep packet sniffing that must be happening in order to effect such censoring.

While it would be possible to effect such on inbound traffic alone, so as to block "offensive" content from being domestically viewed, that would not prevent domestic sites from providing such content to viewers outside their "Great Firewall." Given that the Chinese government is equally concerned about both, one might assume that outbound traffic is also being sniffed.

I've not the time for thoroughly reading it now, but a quick scan shows this wiki article to be informative.

Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[past2future]

use firebug to find out why site is loading so slow.

[deepsand]

While FireBug might indeed be usual with regards to resolving server side issues, the fact that the page in question is only intermittently slow to load suggest that the problem lies elsewhere.