Image contact (without retrieve) question

[oishf7]

Pekka,

Perhaps you can help me solve this problem since you have a more intimate knowledge of EE than myself. Using my Cable connection, most of the time I the Image Contact (Without Retrieve) times are very quick ie. photo.php

<p><b>SERVER PERFORMANCE:</b><br>

MySQL QUERIES: 0.0840s<br>

PHP CODE: 0.0619s<br>

IMAGE CONTACT (WITHOUT RETRIEVE): 0.0973s<br>


other times it's something like


<p><b>SERVER PERFORMANCE:</b><br>

MySQL QUERIES: 0.341s<br>

PHP CODE: 0.121s<br>

IMAGE CONTACT (WITHOUT RETRIEVE): 30.285s<br>


even though it's the exact same page, same connection and I am simply hitting refresh.


Normally, when viewing my EE Statistics page, i attribute flucutaions to the User's connection. IE. Dialup will take longer to load a page than T1.

I have been noticing that even with my Cable connection I am experience fluctuations which leads me to believe it is server related. I am noticing this both during periods of high and low activity on the server.

Have you ever experienced this yourself and do you have a direction to point me in that sheds light on what is causing the Image Retrieve to possibly hang?

I realize that you don't provide server related support typically, just trying to ask a question in hopes of a suggestion.

[Pekka]

Thanks for the PM info, I went there and checked it out.

Few issues:

Issue 1.
In misc settings you have selected
When image file is not found: use EE's substitute image for all images (slowest perfomance).

At that setting EE will check out that every thumb and image displayed really exists. Because there is issue 2 this will be very slow. I changed that to setting 1 (fastest performance).

Issue 2.
Your domain name servers are not properly set. This will make your pages very slow to open, depending on dns server selected. This is the main issue to be solved. Go to http://dnsreport.com/ and get info of your domain name - you'll see more abotu the problem.

Issue 3.
Your modifications to index page have rendered index page perfomance display permanently inactive. Not a biggie, if you don't need that data (index page EE speed looks ok to me).

Very nice photos by the way!

[oishf7]

I truly appreciate your insight. I've contacted my webhost to ask about the DNS issues. In the meantime, performance has been significantly improved with the change in the settings.