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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">My guess is browser caching is making
you think it's only a Chrome problem. I just had it timeout on
Firefox.<br>
<br>
One problem:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.chicago3media.com/sites/all/libraries/mediaelement/build/mediaelement-and-player.min.js?v=2.1.6">http://www.chicago3media.com/sites/all/libraries/mediaelement/build/mediaelement-and-player.min.js?v=2.1.6</a><br>
<br>
That's returning a 404 (so Drupal is having to fire up again to
serve the 404).<br>
<br>
But the big problem appears to be hosting. I just had it take
27.06s to download a 3.3kb CSS file from the site. That's a
totally static file and has nothing to do with Drupal.<br>
<br>
I noticed that the site is on BlueHost. I would go down to the
logs section of the control panel and check the CPU Throttling log
for one. See if the account has been throttled a lot. Hosts like
BlueHost, which offer "unlimited bandwidth", also don't really do
that. Instead when you start using too much bandwidth they
throttle that down. On top of that you get a lot of people parked
on a single server all pushing out a bunch of files at once. They
can offer "unlimited bandwidth", meaning they will let you
transfer out as much data as you want. Where they get you is how
fast that data will come out.<br>
<br>
Going further on that, your front page is over 22mb in size (one
8.6mb video and one 13mb video). The player is automatically
loading the videos. That is killing your site and will cause a
shared hosting company to throttle your bandwidth down. To fix you
got a few choices:<br>
<br>
- Change to a different player that doesn't preload the video.
Players like Kaltura actually use a screenshot and metadata so
that the video player doesn't have to download the media file and
instead just displays that until play is clicked.<br>
<br>
- Drop the players all together on the front page. Go with screen
shots and when they click it takes them to the node with the
player.<br>
<br>
- Get the static stuff off of that server. Install the CDN module
and use a push CDN like VoxCAST (<a
href="http://www.voxel.net/universal-transfer">http://www.voxel.net/universal-transfer</a>).
It's about the next best route in terms of cost savings. <br>
<br>
Anyone of those would help out a lot, but the best route is to go
with the CDN, especially with them hosting videos. The other
option is to totally move to a 3rd party video solution like the
Kaltura platorm. That does cost (unless you got a dedicated server
and know your way around one and can setup Kaltura CE), but they
have a module that integrates very nice with Drupal.<br>
<br>
From a developer standpoint, something I always tell clients is
that if they want shared hosting, then I won't be responsible for
site delivery times and speeds. Shared hosting is just to
unpredictable in nature. I setup their site on my own server (a
Linode VPS) and show them that the Drupal side of things put out
the page at a very good speed and on shared hosting, I have no
control over it. <br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Jamie Holly
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.intoxination.net">http://www.intoxination.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hollyit.net">http://www.hollyit.net</a></pre>
On 7/21/2012 4:01 AM, Jeff Brown wrote:<br>
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<div apple-content-edited="true">Cursory look in Wireshark: I'm
pretty sure the offending file is in /sites/default/files/Ally</div>
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<div>On 21 Jul 2012, at 9:28 AM, WildCoast wrote:</div>
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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;
-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Think I replied
from the wrong address, so this never reached the list:
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<div>Once the page was cached I ran a fresh Firefox session
while running tcpdump. Left it to run about a minute, and
it used up 2,7Mb of data.
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<div>Haven't checked the dump with wireshark yet, but
while testing the site on a Windows PC with IE, I caught
a burst of sound. My first thought is there's a wav file
loading, and wherever it is, it's not letting Chrome
render the rest of the page until it's finished
downloading.</div>
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<div>Even in FF and IE, the page loads, but never finishes
downloading something else. Something interminable is
left still trying to download.</div>
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<div>Unfortunately I'm on a really expensive mobile
connection, but maybe this gives you a clue.</div>
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<div>HTH</div>
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style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans:
2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform:
none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing:
0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">
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space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:
separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;
orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform:
none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;
-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break:
after-white-space; "><span
class="Apple-style-span"
style="border-collapse: separate; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;
font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;
orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform:
none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">
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-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;
-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="Courier">--</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="Courier">Jeff Brown</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="Courier"><br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="Courier">Tel:+27-74-101 5170</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="Courier">Fax:+27-86-532 3508</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="Courier"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wildcoast.co.za/">www.wildcoast.co.za</a></font></div>
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<div>On 21 Jul 2012, at 8:25 AM, Jessica Hannan - Halo
Digital Design wrote:</div>
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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode:
space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am
testing in IE, Firefox and Safari… everything is
loading fine.
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<div>In Chrome, it's timing out on the initial page
load. I've been beating my head against the screen
for 2 days on this one. I have aggregated CSS and
JS files, I tried moving the js files to the
bottom of the page, I have reduced my image sizes.
I loaded Boost and (I think) configured it. It's
still timing out. I know it's timing out because I
have pored through the posts on <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://Drupal.org">Drupal.org</a>
and Googled my butt off. Literally. It's sore. I
ran it through YSlow and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.webpagetest.org/">http://www.webpagetest.org/</a> and
it times out on those as well. </div>
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<div>I'm getting desperate. My client went from
being pissed to the point of wanting to pull the
plug this morning to begging me to please go to
sleep 16 hours (and no resolution) later.</div>
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<div>I know someone here can shed some light on
this. Perhaps I'm too close to the problem? Maybe
I'm missing something totally simple. </div>
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<div>Help me fix this and I will buy you a beer. Or
some m&m's. Whatever floats your boat.</div>
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<div>Here's the link. </div>
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<div>Jessica Hannan - Halo Digital Design</div>
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href="http://halodigitaldesign.com/">http://halodigitaldesign.com/</a></div>
<div>815-545-5541</div>
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