I would play with pushing the images into an asset server. I would set up Apache and serve the images from a different domain. This offloads the processing of the images from Rails and Apache is really good at it. You could even put it on the same VPS without an issue. Read up on offloading images to an asset server for more details about how and why that will help.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:41 AM, LostyJai <[email protected]> wrote: > > I used http://site-perf.com/ to check the performance of my site. > When loading the images, the queues range from 1.5s to 8.5s towards > the end. > > The images are mostly part of a theme, but there is also some user > pictures. > I would say about 80% is theme, and 20% is user images. > > The images range from 50kb to less then 1kb. > > The site is hosted on a VPS server. > > On Jan 11, 1:21 am, "Carl Fyffe" <[email protected]> wrote: >> In general it isn't CE that is causing the slowdown. >> >> Here are some tips though: >> Use Yahoo's Y-Slow to get some tips on how to make your site faster. >> >> What are the 50 images for? User's pictures or are they part of a >> theme you have built for the site? >> >> How big are the images? If you are loading large images then you >> should make them smaller. >> >> Are you on shared hosting or vps? Vps will be better. >> >> On 1/10/09, LostyJai <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > I was wondering how would I go about speeding up the load time of my >> > community engine? >> > I have about 50 images loading and it takes probably 8s-10s before I >> > start seeing content. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
