Hi new to the CI but since using it I have noticed my images are taking longer to load. Its the same design used before ci and it was there when the page load. I may need to look into cashing but would there be a place that could walk me through it? ps i am uni student learing php…

ps it is just css images that area taking the longest

Do you use a .htaccess file? Do any superfluous redirects happen?
Use Firebug to monitor the HTTP requests.

Sounds like some configuration or unintended error.

i do use htaccess to route everything through the index.php here is the controller i use for a typical page

function index()
  {
    $this->load->helper(‘url’);
    $data[‘title’] = “Header”;
    $data[‘copy’] = “Copyright”;
    $data[‘base’] = “”.base_url().”“;
    $data[‘menu’] = “MENU”;
    $this->load->view(‘constant/header’, $data);
    $this->load->view(‘constant/b4menu’);
    $this->load->view(‘constant/menu’, $data);
    $this->load->view(‘constant/btwn’);
    $this->load->view(‘tools’); // PAGE CONTENT
    $this->load->view(‘constant/aftcon’);   
    $this->load->view(‘constant/footer’);
  }

ctc_media - 01 June 2009 07:08 PM

Hi new to the CI but since using it I have noticed my images are taking longer to load. Its the same design used before ci and it was there when the page load. I may need to look into cashing but would there be a place that could walk me through it? ps i am uni student learing php…

ps it is just css images that area taking the longest

 
Hi,

Couple of things that I would be tempted to do:
 
1. Get rid of all your Html and css errors.
 
2. Move all Javascript files from your header to immediately above </body>
 
3. Create a page without loading any graphics and have default colours.
 
4. Remove Twitter Javascript stuff that feetches all your latest data.
 
5. Just have a link to Twitter.
 
6. Reduce the size of “edlogo00.png” by making it into a jpg
 
7. Check out YSLOW for numerous other tips.
 
8. Checkout http://imageresizepro.com/downloads/ci_ctc_media/
 
9.  Invest in a faster server - email me
 
 
Cheers,
 
John
 
 
 

its not my site i am having problems with

Hey,

What do you have $config[‘log_threshold’] set to?
I had this set to 4(All Messages) and page was rendered in 3 seconds. I turned it to 1 (only error messages) and it reduced to 0.2 secs

One thing to look also is how you load your assets(images, javascript etc.). Do you load them with full url or relative to your server? If answer is full url, then they create a different http request for every object you load thus slowing down the site a little bit.

the log threshold worked thanx for that

the load is faster than without CI strange!!

I’ve never knows the jumpt to be that big, for me it was going from 0.5 (with logs set to 4) down to 0.3 (with just error logging)

i cleared my browsing history etc incase it was that and it is a huge difference

I’ve used firebug before - it’s a great plugin - especially when you’re looking for the xpath of a document - it really saves a lot of time.

Thanks for the post on htaccess - i’ve got a similar situation where i’ve routed a lot of stuff through my htaccess file in an attempt at a revival of basic seo for my database driven site!

Also you do not need to pass base_url() to your views. The views already have access to that function.