Performance/Load Time Problems

[dkinney]

I have CiviCRM 2.2.1 installed on Drupal6 site on a media temple dedicate virtual server. Because we are selling event tickets, I am using SSL.

My page load for a ticketed event is about 23 seconds, which is driving me nuts.  Drupal is still running in "dev" mode with most caching disabled.  I went to the Civicrm dev site and a similar event loads in 2.3 seconds.

I have searched the forums and documentation for the last two hours looking for advice or direction on this issue. I would be deeply grateful for any advance anyone can offer - right now this feels like a solution that just will not work.

Thanks!

[Donald Lobo]

do ensure that:

1. js/css/images are all cached (i.e. apache send them out with the right header information)

2. preferably use gzip compression also

3. if you have the $$$, looking into using the Zend Platform. Not sure why your media temple server is 10x slower than our server. Might want to use firebug to check this out

thanx

lobo

[Piotr Szotkowski]

I’m not sure whether I remember this correctly, but I think (at least some) browsers do not cache any stuff received over HTTPS, and you can’t send parts of the website (CSS, JS, images) over plain HTTP without the browsers complaining that these parts are not secure. Serving the HTML/CSS/JS parts of the website with gzip compression should help, though.

What you need to figure out first is whether the delay is mostly caused by SSL/HTTPS, or is it indeed the rendering time on the Drupal/CiviCRM side.

[Shai]

Would you mind sending some more instructions or referring to the help page on how to gzip files and how to get apache to to cache/send correct header information.

Thanks,

Shai

[Donald Lobo]

please search for mod_expires / mod_deflate on yahoo. quite a few urls out there that will show you how to do so

lobo

[Shai]

Okay, will do.

Can you explain why the tiny_mce js is downloading on every page even though I've selected FCKEditor?

Shai

[Donald Lobo]

this is a bug, please file an issue and we'll fix in a future version

if u want to delete this manually, edit: templates/CRM/common/jquery.tpl

lobo

[Shai]

Bug report filed:

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-4390

Shai