Does your blog load too slow?
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It was a severe headache when I had to wait for more than three minutes for my blog to load completely. It happened early in the morning. It was felt the sluggishness since last two days. I wondered if anything went wrong in my site.
Remembered the way theme was installed. An error message “Theme is broken” was encountered when activating. I loved that MadBlogger theme but it became the first suspicious element when I found my blog is loading too slow. Decision to change a theme, all of a sudden, is not a soft piece of cake! Tried to test first few sets of remedies:
Browser cookies might get conflict and appear the load time longer than it really is. Thus, I cleared the cookies and histories.
After doing everything I could, I was desperate with the failure. Now, the index finger pointed to the THEME. I was compelled to change MadBlogger theme with the current one. But to my utmost dismay the problem is smiling with all those yellow teeth, as it was.
Now for sure, the cause must be the host. I had purchased HostGator account a couple of weeks ago. I know they are great and provide fantastic service. But problems may arise anywhere. I send a direct message on Twitter and logged on to the live chat support. Their support is superb!
Thanks to Wassim Do for his prompt action and support. He traced out the problem. It was with my ISP that I never suspected. My internet connection is ADSL and it is working perfectly with all other sites. Wassim sent me the Traceroute details.
Thanks to the tweeples @che2on and @bloggingjunkie who tested and responded to my request on Twitter. They found the load time perfect. I was relieved but still I did not have something that could test the load time, and experience in first hand.
Finally, I found a tool (@bloggingjunkie pointed out) that lists you the load time for each of your website. Its very handy and can save you if ever you are in similar troubles!
iWebTools provide a speed test tool. No need to register, nothing to log in, just open the site and list the URLs of your websites then, hit ‘Submit’. Done! you’ll instantly get the results that tells you which of the site took how long to load.
I made a speed test for my blog www.icttrends.com, http://new.psexam.com and the website www.psexam.com. You can easily imagine how happy I’d been to see the results as below:
There are many factors to increase the loading time of your blog. You need to take action to all of these areas to trace the problem and troubleshoot. Now, I’m going to talk to my ISP and solve the problem for me. Anyway, now I can be calm, at least, the problem is only for me and the blog readers are not hampered. Thanks to every body for the support!
24 Responses to “Does your blog load too slow?”
Vote on this article at blogengage.com on March 19, 2010
Does your blog load too slow?…
There are many factors to increase the loading time of your blog. You need to take action to all of these areas to trace the problem and troubleshoot. Now, I’m going to talk to my ISP and solve the problem for me. Anyway, now I can be calm, at least, t…
Ex Back on March 19, 2010
Sometimes it does, but I’ve recently changed the hosting providers and got a dedicated server for all my blog.
Evelina
shkhanal
Twitter: icttrends
on March 20, 2010
Dedicated server for all of the blogs? That must be a great experience!
dacoda on March 21, 2010
When I read the first few paragraphs of this blog, I already suspected it was your ISP and I was right.
shkhanal
Twitter: icttrends
on March 21, 2010
You are pretty smart to guess. I failed in keeping suspense till late?
Ileane
Twitter: Ileane
on March 21, 2010
Hi Suresh,
I see that you have finally found the source of your load time issues! It was sometime last month when you were using Blogger that you started trying to detect this issue. That goes to show that if you stick to it you can root out the problem. I’m really happy for you so that you can put this issue to rest.
Good detective work!
.-= Ileane´s last blog ..Blogging Legacy – Have You Considered Yours? =-.
shkhanal
Twitter: icttrends
on March 21, 2010
That’s it Ileane. I was wondering why it is slow for my blog when I had seen some blogs with tons of widgets and they are happy. I never thought the ISP might be the reason that is causing sluggishness for some particular sites. Anyway, experiences build up a man wise!
Annie on May 30, 2010
Hi the checker you’ve used to check your site loading page was really cool then. Thanks for sharing that stuff and this information.
Regards,
Annie
You are now listed on FAQPAL on March 31, 2010
Does your blog load too slow?…
There are many factors to increase the loading time of your blog. You need to take action to all of these areas to trace the problem and troubleshoot. Now, I’m going to talk to my ISP and solve the problem for me. Anyway, now I can be calm, at least, t…
FAQPAL
Twitter: faqpal
on March 31, 2010
Glad you sorted it out, nothing worse than a slow connection.
.-= FAQPAL´s last blog ..Diving into the Twitter API =-.
Josh
Twitter: AskGarden
on April 15, 2010
Thanks for that link, I’m always a little nervous about my load time because it can really frustrate new visitors. Proud to say that my site loads up in under a second! Think I’ll celebrate by installing 20 plugins
.-= Josh´s last blog ..Cooking: Candied Sweet Potatoes =-.
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on April 16, 2010
Its great to achieve less than one second in spite of lots of nice image and great design. You did a great job man!
Baba on May 16, 2010
Sometimes pages load too slow due to some plugins. It is always best to delete the unused plugins. I had once experienced slowness in my blog and i was much worried. I then disabled all plugins and enabled them one by one.
Croatia apartments on May 20, 2010
Thanks Baba…. your information of deleting the unused plugins is new to me…. I’ll try this out.
Joris333 on July 17, 2010
Disable all plugins and enabled them one by one seems to work.
Web Developer
Twitter: agriyanews
on July 20, 2010
There are so many factors that come in to play when your site becomes unbearably slow. To improve the speed performance why not try the WP-Supercache (if you are not already) which can speed up your site considerably – especially for search engine visitors.
alexwfix on August 18, 2010
The speed test tool is proved by iWebTools, is awesome and amazing tool. I just check my site speed and completely satisfied. i just sharing this links with my friend.
Nilsa Trowell on August 24, 2010
Where can I find cool theme for WordPress? There are very cool themes, but sometimes inconvenient to set up. I tried recent versions of Designora, My Office, Red Steel, DesignPile, also I have tried also Heatmap – simple, but made for adsense. Very rarely we can see something convenient but rich in options.
Jeff Winger on December 10, 2010
I remember having similar difficulties with my ITIL Consulting blog. It took way to long until it published new postings. But then I founded out, that I just had a very long ping list. Now I just wait for 1-2 min but then can be sure at least, that the posting shows up in google.
Koh Tao on December 13, 2010
Thanks for the post Suresh – for a while I’ve been thinking my wp blog is a bit slow loading. I’ll work through your point and see if it speeds it up.
Obviously load time is important for real people, but do you think it also influences search engine rankings?
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on December 14, 2010
Google included load time as one of the factor for ranking that obviously leads the load time to influence SERP.
livecas
Twitter: Livecas
on April 20, 2011
Does your blog load too slow? Yes sometimes my blog does. It’s my severe and usual problem. But anyway thanks for the great help. The links really help me a lot.
diving koh tao
Twitter: roctopus
on June 29, 2011
Thanks for the ideas – I’m going to look into this. Page load speeds seem to becoming an increasingly important SERP factor.
Fiona on August 27, 2011
Hello,
I’m new to blogging, so I find articles like this fascinating. Have you tried googles adsense? I would like to, but was wondering if it would slow me down?
Fiona