I've been told it could be my host Godaddy not sure why though?
Possibly, but I am using 1and1.com and am having similar issues. I wonder if others are also having problems? I just checked Ken's on Saratoga-Weather and his space page loads almost instantly and all images look good. Am wondering if I have something wrong in my code. Will review it later today.
I'm using Ken's version 1.5 so not sure if he has something different on his site or not!! ??
I had experienced some 500-Errors while trying to load all the images via the PHP scripts each time the space-weather.php page was loaded. I decided to modify the image URLs to load the cache files in the page, and then append
# Pull the images for space-weather.php by cron
cd $HOME/httpdocs/wx
echo "$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S) start images load" > image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-aurora.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-solar-cycle.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-aurora-s.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-solar-disk.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-eit-284.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-solargraph.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-eit-304.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-solar-number.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-sat-env.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-solar-radio.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-solar101vhf.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-solar-ap.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-solar-wind.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-solar-corona.php >> image-space-status.txt
/usr/bin/php -q image-space-xray.php >> image-space-status.txt
echo "$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S) finished images load" >> image-space-status.txt
to a cron job that was already running every 5 minutes to redraw my sparkline graphs on the almanac page.
That's why my page loads fast .. it only gets the text forecast from the site and then uses the cached images preloaded by the cron job.
Since I'm on my own VPS, I have to do some efficiency things to minimize the PHP loads, even running PHP 7.1