Conflicting Page Speeds.

[watto]

Any suggestions on getting the 'first view' page speed down? The repeat view is flying, but something not right here?

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/101028_9P5W/

[blakejake65]

How about using a Page Speeding down tool? You can also try consulting a Technical team for websites. There are a lot of affordable services out there that will do the job for you and more.

[watto]

What are your thoughts on a CDN?

[alphaomega]

How can we look without knowing the url? What is the website?

[alphaomega]

Sorry, didn't look properly. Here is my opinion.
I think your first view is slower because it loads all the images. Once this is loaded it is in the cache and pages come much quicker.

[watto]

I might remove the listing images on the homepage to speed it up. This should get things moving!

[AttitudeGuy]

It's about the images. It's normally t happen in this way. The theme images and the article images are loaded at first view and written on the hard drive. At refresh, the images are still here, so will not be necessary to reload another time.

[Bernd]

I did a quick test for your header grafic. I can be easily shrink down to 40 % or even less of the initial size. For the test I changed the format from gif to jpg.
There are more grafics which have very big file sizes in relation to the image sizes (e.g. for scaled_2261_120x86_DeliFrontJPG.jpg less then 10 kb are possible). Compress them with a grafics program.

[watto]

Thanks for the advice Bernd.

[deepsand]

Compare the two waterfall views, and the no. of resources downloaded:

• Initial - 36 downloaded;
• Repeat - 2 downloaded.

The difference lies in the 34 that were locally cached.