JOOMLA site too slow

Question

my Joomla site is too slow. It approximately uses 8 to 10 s to load main page. I am using xampp. template protostar. PC core i7. OS windows. JOOMLA 3.15. Is it normal ??

Answer 1

It's hard to tell what the issue is when you are working on xampp/win because that set up is inherently slower than a *nix server that has been set up to run Joomla. As with most web software, Joomla is vastly affected by the hosting environment. Getting a good host is critical in site speed. We recently helped a client with site speed problems simply by moving them to a dedicated server optimized for Joomla. Load times went from 6-8 second to under 2 seconds and we didn't do anything but move the site.

I wouldn't worry about it until you get it on a production server. Even then, I would make sure you are on a quality host that specializes in Joomla like RochenHost.com.

Answer 2

Oppz i solved it just right now. I disable Xdebug in php.ini and time reduces form 8s to 1s

[XDebug]
;zend_extension= "C:\Users\arslan\Desktop\xampp-win32-1.8.1-VC9\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll" 
;xdebug.remote_enable=on
;xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
;xdebug.remote_host="localhost"
;xdebug.remote_port=9001
;xdebug.remote_autostart=1

my server was xampp.

Joomla site slow problem solved.

Its running like leopard now.

OS window7

workstation corei7

localhost

Edit:: And time reduces to 0.5 sec when i removed following code form protostar index.php i.e google fonts

 <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=<?php echo    
$this->params->get('googleFontName');?>' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />
      <style type="text/css">
         h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,.site-title{
            font-family: '<?php echo str_replace('+', ' ', $this->params->get('googleFontName'));?>', sans-serif;
         }
      </style>

Answer 3

LIn your configuration.php make sure you have public $host = '127.0.0.1';, instead of 'localhost'. This is an php/mysql issue. For me it is 1 second differance for every db connection.

When you have joomla debug mode on, you get time information:

localhost:

127.0.0.1:

Answer 4

In addition to the above mentioned answer I uncommented the

bind-address="127.0.0.1"

setting in the MySQL configuration file (my.ini).

This brought an increase of execution speed to my local Joomla installation on Windows 8.1.