Urgent !!! Higher Home Page loading time !!!!!

nike4all

Hi techies

I am a fresher and developed my first website for the client

http://www.direct2deal.com

This site is absolutely fine..but only one problem is it takes too much time to download specially in dialup connection...

Could you guys suggest me how to optimize this page so that it loads fast !!!!

Waiting for your appreciable reply

AstroTeg

I'm not an expert at this but...

WAY too much data to present on a home page. This, I think, is your main problem.
No CSS (or very limited CSS)

Redundant HTML. Example: You have a table cell that contains this:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
                                                  <tr align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> 
                                                    <td width="105%"><strong><font color="#990000" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&nbsp;STEP 
                                                      2 STEP Shopping Procedure</font></strong></td>
                                                  </tr>

                                        </table>

Instead, you could probably could have used CSS and did something like:

<span class="myclass">
STEP 2 STEP Shopping Procedure</span>

Compare this with what you have above and you'll see the 2nd version is a LOT shorter which means it'll transfer a lot faster to the user.

PHPmill

Remove the main outer enclosing table. This page is huge. This table makes everything have to load before anything can be displayed. If you have smaller, non overlapping tables as the file is read, the tables will be displayed as they are read.

jkurrle

But your "last updated" code shows when you loaded the page, not when the page was last updated.

Here's a last updated function I have my web developers use:

function Last_Modified()
{
$This_File=$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
$array=explode("/",$This_File);
$lastelement=array_pop($array);

// Change to the name of the file
$last_modified = filemtime("$lastelement");

// Display the results
// eg. Last modified Monday, 27th October, 2003 @ 02:59pm
print "<h6>Last modified " . date("l, dS F, Y @ h:ia", $last_modified)."</h6>";
}

Give this a try and see if this is more to your liking...

Weedpacket

I agree with AstroTeg. That page is vast. Eliminating redundant whitespace would just about halve the size of the HTML file, but it's still nearly half a megabyte just for that one file. And most of that information is utterly irrelevant to me even if I was interested in certain of the products (if I'm looking at the cellphone do I care about the purchase process for the DVD player?)