along these lines, what about using s3 for theme images, styles and scripts? I haven't done this yet, but wouldn't that also help?
any thoughts on what's involved with doing this? -- Levi Rosol Twitter: @LeviRosol On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Carl Fyffe <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
