Site slow after upgrade to 1.5.23

**GK User** Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:06 am

My ICKI sports site has slowed down tremendously after upgrading to j1.5.23. Any suggestions or checkoffs would be helpful.
php ver. 5.2.17 Apache 1.3.42

**GK User** Sat Jul 02, 2011 4:46 am

All your site? I had similiar problem with article manager, I disabled GK typography plugin.

Saludos.

**teitbite** Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:54 pm

Hi

Can I please see Your site ?

**GK User** Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:28 am

firstfridaystwincities dot net

**teitbite** Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:53 pm

Hi

The site performance tool is showing that site doesn't looks so bad. The hardest part are images:

Total Weight - 2379.2K

Anyway it's working pretty fast when it's cached.

**GK User** Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:36 pm

Well it looks like there is a lot of optimization needed even on your server.

With yslow i am getting -> The page has a total of 97 components and a total weight of 2379.2K bytes
and with Page Speed -> Page Speed Score: 38/100

▸ Enable Keep-Alive [Score: 0/100]
▸ Leverage browser caching [Score: 0/100]
▸ Combine images into CSS sprites [Score: 3/100]
▸ Enable compression [Score: 76/100]
▸ Optimize images [Score: 82/100]
▸ Serve scaled images

You should try to enable gzip or/and cache.

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:35 pm

Done. Gzip enabled. Cache enabled. Still seems slow. There are a lot ofimages in the images folder but the front page was much faster before upgrading. what optimization on the server do you recommend?

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:40 pm

-{All your site? I had similiar problem with article manager, I disabled GK typography plugin.}-

Yes, the entire site is slower after the upgrade.

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:43 pm

What server side cache are you using? are you using any?

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:12 pm

Joomla's cache setting is set to file. mod_gzip I believe.

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:15 pm

I suggest that you enable memcaced (if it's enabled on your server)

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:41 pm

Mem cache is now on. I have other options such as:
Persistent Memory Cache No Yes
Memory Cache Compression No Yes
Memory Cache Server HOST: Port:

Do i need these par to be filled in or leave blank for default settings?

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:49 pm

That's probably because memcached is not enabled on your server. Try to disable by editing configuration.php file.

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:42 pm

Mem cache is now on. I have other options such as:
Persistent Memory Cache No Yes
Memory Cache Compression No Yes
Memory Cache Server HOST: Port:

Do i need these par to be filled in or leave blank for default settings?

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:49 pm

You must at least fill the HOST and Port.

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:09 pm

Host doesn't support it. Just found out. I am going to re-install on a diff domain and compare speed. Hopefully today or tonight. Will update then. If you have any other suggestion, plz let me know. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

**GK User** Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:17 pm

Well you could also use mod deflate and mod expire !