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peter posted an update 13 years, 1 month ago
Spent the day doing various things to speed up Tea Trade and make it load faster. The blogs and websites on the network, should be seeing an improvement too. The main site is faster, but I still need to do more. Turned off the live chat function; it was causing a huge slowdown unfortunately. I’m going to have to talk to the developer to get him to lighten the load a little bit.
A Digital Ocean of Tea
All good stuff but bring back the chat please!
The chat is gone? 🙁
Yeah, the software for it adds a lot of individual javascript calls (7 of them) to every page of the main web site. The software is third -party in that all of it resides remotely on another service. More specifically it is the Skysa.com toolbar. It is a useful tool, but very slow because of all the different things the developer for it wants it to do. I turned it off to run various speed tests. It’s presence actually doubles the load time of the main site pages. That’s a bad thing.
I’ll turn it back on so it can be used, but I am also researching replacements for it. We’ll lose some functionality, but unless I can convince the developer of the need to lighten the load, I don’t think Tea Trade can live with it anymore, it is just too slow.