Topic: My Website slow to load

[tshattuck]

Folks:
I switched web hosts last week, went from GoDaddy to FASTCOMET. The first several days my website http://yourlocalweather-clay-ny.com/ loaded faster than when I was with GoDaddy. The past 3  days my website (home page) has been loading slowly. I ran several times command: "tracert" and discovered server IP 142.254.212.225 (Charter Communications, Greenwood Village, CO) is very slow to respond. I submitted a help desk ticket to FASTCOMET today and I am waiting a reply.
Could you folks try accessing my website and please let me know if you see a problem with it loading. For me it's taking about 7to 8 seconds to load when it normally loads in 3.

Thanks

[Jasiu]

"One-thousand-o..." Boom. It was there.

Have you done a view-source when it's slow? Usually these types of delays are due to an external server being slow / unresponsive when some cached content has expired.

[tshattuck]

Jasiu:
Thanks for the feedback. I just received a reply from FASTCOMET and they said the same thing you did. They sent me a technical readout and my website loaded in 1.4 seconds - that's fast!
FASTCOMET suggested I speak to my local ISP (Spectrum)

You will have to forgive me. When you say "view-source" are you talking about viewing the web page source via your browesr?

[Jasiu]

You will have to forgive me. When you say "view-source" are you talking about viewing the web page source via your browesr?

Yes. Important trick to know to debug the scripts as a lot of info goes into the HTML comments (that you won't see on the actual page).

In Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, you can do right-click "View Page Source" (not sure about Microsoft browsers but it's probably the same). Or in the URL bar you can just type "view-source:" before the site name.  E.g.,

   view-source:http://yourlocalweather-clay-ny.com/

Once you are looking at the source, you can do searches on "curl" and "cache" to see how particular bits of information were loaded. Right now I see no "curl" instances (which means no fetches). Makes for a fast load.

[tshattuck]

Good Info - I will  have to remember that. I do use "View-Source" but have never used it for curl and cache.

I just checked my website again and it loaded within 2 seconds. I will just have to watch for the next week and see how it loads.

Thanks again for your analysis.