I am having trouble with a page loading really slow on a website.

The homepage is RyanMartinRealEstate (dot) com and when you click on the "Bellingham, WA" tab at the top, the page loads really slow. The site is written in html with heavy CSS and the particular page that is loading slow is in php. There are several other pages that are designed nearly the same that load just fine. (i.e. /Birch-Bay, /Blaine, /Ferndale, etc...) It is just the /Bellingham that loads slow?

Does anybody have an idea what is up?

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Ryan A. Martin - Windermere Real Estate / Whatcom Inc.

Your Bellingham real estate professional specializing in the listing and sales of Bellingham condos. Also check out my Anacortes real estate website for information about Fidalgo Island and Anacortes, WA

Its took me forever to load as well... its weird because the homepage loaded in no time and they're both on the same server, perhaps its the heavy css as you said :S

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Ismail Shihadi
Premium Real Estate Directory ~ Agents and Brokers ~ Commercial Real Estate

I know. It doesn't make sense to me. All of the pages use the same "heavy css" so it shouldn't make a difference. Even the other "city" pages load fairly quickly.

Anybody else know?

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Ryan A. Martin - Windermere Real Estate / Whatcom Inc.

Your Bellingham real estate professional specializing in the listing and sales of Bellingham condos. Also check out my Anacortes real estate website for information about Fidalgo Island and Anacortes, WA

Is the "Most Recent Bellingham Real Estate Search" section being pulled from a data source?

Yes, all of the city pages pull the most recent 3 listings from unique rss feeds that I have set up for each city and neighborhood. The rss feed is then parsed into the page via php. That could be it. Maybe I just need to narrow down the parameters of data source that create the rss feed? "Bellingham" is definitely the largest data source of all the feeds.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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Ryan A. Martin - Windermere Real Estate / Whatcom Inc.

Your Bellingham real estate professional specializing in the listing and sales of Bellingham condos. Also check out my Anacortes real estate website for information about Fidalgo Island and Anacortes, WA

HI

In a first approach, I see one fault that leads to slowly loading pages:

You are "calling" an image (city-of-bellingham.jpg) without declaring it's dimensions. This causes the browser to wait till the image is completely downloaded to determine it’ s dimensions, and to render the rest of the html document.

If you declare the image dimensions, whether embedded (which is deprecated) or in a CSS style, the browser “saves” room for the image (while it downloads) and proceeds rendering the HTML, thus not wasting any precious time.

Hope this helps!

Greetings from Portugal

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MAC
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Adobe Certified Professional, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Developer.

Ryan,
There may also be other factors, but the jpg image on your Bellingham page was 60kb uncompressed, and only 11kb when saved with a 70% compression factor, with no discernible loss of resolution. It may not make a lot of difference with only one image, but for any page with more than one image, or for images that are large to begin with, it could help.

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Ron Goodman, GRI, REALTOR®
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@MAC ~ I will declare the dimensions and see if that helps.

@Ron ~ I am not thinking that the image is the problem. All of the pages have a similar image and this is the only one that loads slow, but I will compress the photo and see if it helps. As you noted, it can't hurt the loading time.

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Ryan A. Martin - Windermere Real Estate / Whatcom Inc.

Your Bellingham real estate professional specializing in the listing and sales of Bellingham condos. Also check out my Anacortes real estate website for information about Fidalgo Island and Anacortes, WA

RyanRE,

I don't think the problem is with your CSS or the page rendering in the browser due to not having the dimensions (although that is a good thing to have).

The slow down appears to be the processing you are doing on your server before your web server is sending the request back to the user's browser. The page with css, graphics and js are being served in just over a second.

Do you have access to copy the page and do some testing?

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I have full access to everything if you can help. I have to take off until tomorrow though. PM me with what you need.

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Ryan A. Martin - Windermere Real Estate / Whatcom Inc.

Your Bellingham real estate professional specializing in the listing and sales of Bellingham condos. Also check out my Anacortes real estate website for information about Fidalgo Island and Anacortes, WA