[Phpwm] PHP Website load times in Firefox

[Alex Mace]

Hi Mike,

Have you tried using the Firebug extensions YSlow or Google Page  
Speed? Both of these can identify things that might be causing your  
pages to load slowly. Obviously most of the time, the first time you  
visit a page, the browser has to download all of the images, though if  
you then open Safari and it loads much quicker, that is less likely to  
be an issue.

It might also be dependant on the version of Firefox. Safari is  
usually a lot quicker than Firefox for most operations, but I believe  
the gap a closed a little with Firefox 3.5...

Cheers,

Alex

On 2 Oct 2009, at 10:21, Mike Tipping wrote:

> Several of the sites I've built and manage seem to take an age to  
> initially
> load. These sites seem to be those that require a login so the delay  
> is the
> initial login screen which should just be checking to see if there  
> is a user
> in the session and displaying the login screen. Sometimes they load  
> OK but
> often enough to be annoying they take an age.
>
> I was thinking this could be a delay on the server side but if while  
> I'm
> waiting for the site to load, I open the same site is Safari on the  
> same
> computer it often loads straight away.
>
> I haven't had any clients complain about slow load times but I have a
> colleague who uses Safari most of the time and does get slow load  
> times.
>
> Does anyone know of any issues with Firefox and checking session  
> variables
> or tools that would tell me what the browsers is doing while I'm  
> staring as
> a blank screen.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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