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Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items

Oleksiy Shevchukevych
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16 years 11 months ago #3273 by Oleksiy Shevchukevych

Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items was created by Oleksiy Shevchukevych

Hi Guys,

It took me a while to figure out that Simple Image Gallery PRO creates performance problems when I use it in multipage content item.

I have content item splitted up into 17 pages. Each page contains 2 galleries and every gallery consists of just one image. The total number of such-one page galleries is 35. Given such a setup I'm having 2 problems:

1) It takes extremely long to access any of content item's subpage (around 14 seconds)

2) When I access any of content item's subpage using IE, web site's template just drops

You can access multi-page content item I'm having problems with using this URL:

www.boxingcoachmike.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8&Itemid=10000

If I remove all galleries from this multi-page content item everything works just fine.

Thanks
Cheetah

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16 years 11 months ago #3274 by JoomlaWorks

Replied by JoomlaWorks on topic Re: Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items

Please switch popup engine to e.g. Slimbox and check again. Lytebox -the one you use- uses php output buffering which might be "heavy" on your server. Let me know...

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16 years 11 months ago #3275 by Oleksiy Shevchukevych

Replied by Oleksiy Shevchukevych on topic Re: Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items

I've tried every popup engine. Problems still exist.

Thanks
Cheetah

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16 years 11 months ago #3276 by JoomlaWorks

Replied by JoomlaWorks on topic Re: Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items

OK, try this. Open up the file mambots/content/plugin_jw_sigpro.php and at about line 284, replace this block of code:

				// create thumbnails
				if (file_exists($tempfolder.md5($_images_dir_.$name).$format) && filemtime ($tempfolder.md5($_images_dir_.$name).$format) + $cache_expire_time * 60 > time()) {
				 $html .= $leftcomment.'<img alt="'.$clickopen.'" title="'.$clickopen.'" src="'.$tempfolder.md5($_images_dir_.$name).$format.'" />'.$rightcomment;
				} else {
				 $fromname = $mosConfig_absolute_path.$rootfolder.$_images_dir_.'/'.$images[$a];
				 $toname = $mosConfig_absolute_path.$tempfolder.md5($_images_dir_.$name).".".$format;
				 $toname_live = $mosConfig_live_site.$tempfolder.md5($_images_dir_.$name).".".$format;
				 $result = makeThumb( $fromname, $toname, $image_type, $_quality_, $_width_final_, $_height_final_);
				 if($result)
				    $html .=$leftcomment.'<img alt="'.$clickopen.'" title="'.$clickopen.'" src="'.$toname_live.'" />'.$rightcomment;
				 else
				    $html .='<span>Error creating thumbnail!</span>';
				}

with this:

				// create thumbnails
				$toname = $mosConfig_absolute_path.$tempfolder.md5($_images_dir_.$name).".".$format;
				$toname_live = $mosConfig_live_site.$tempfolder.md5($_images_dir_.$name).".".$format; 
				
				if (file_exists($toname) && (filemtime ($toname) + $cache_expire_time * 60 > time())) {
					$html .= $leftcomment.'<img alt="'.$clickopen.'" title="'.$clickopen.'" src="'.$toname_live.'" />'.$rightcomment; 
				} else {
					$fromname = $mosConfig_absolute_path.$rootfolder.$_images_dir_.'/'.$images[$a];
					$result = makeThumb( $fromname, $toname, $image_type, $_quality_, $_width_final_, $_height_final_);
					if($result) {
					$html .= $leftcomment.'<img alt="'.$clickopen.'" title="'.$clickopen.'" src="'.$toname_live.'" />'.$rightcomment;
					} else {
					$html .= '<span>Error creating thumbnail!</span>';
					}
				}

Let me know...

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16 years 11 months ago #3277 by Oleksiy Shevchukevych

Replied by Oleksiy Shevchukevych on topic Re: Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items

Hi Fotis,

Thanks, it helped. Problem #1 is gone. Although problem #2 still exists. i.e. in IE template drops and I'm getting some javascript errors. In Firefox everything is fine.

Thanks
Oleksiy

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16 years 11 months ago #3278 by Oleksiy Shevchukevych

Replied by Oleksiy Shevchukevych on topic Re: Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items

I've switched to Lytebox popup engine and I'm not getting JavaScript errors anymore. But template is still missing in IE.

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16 years 11 months ago #3279 by JoomlaWorks

Replied by JoomlaWorks on topic Re: Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items

Well, for one let me note that your servers is a bit slow on response. Now try this. Change this part in your template:

<!--[if lte IE 7]>
<link href="http://www.boxingcoachmike.com/templates/rt_sporticus_v2/css/template_ie7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link href="http://www.boxingcoachmike.com/templates/rt_sporticus_v2/css/template_ie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

with this:

<!--[if IE 7]>
<link href="http://www.boxingcoachmike.com/templates/rt_sporticus_v2/css/template_ie7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link href="http://www.boxingcoachmike.com/templates/rt_sporticus_v2/css/template_ie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

Perhaps the 2 stylesheets conflicted. Notice that the change is on the first "if" statement. Get back to me...

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16 years 11 months ago #3280 by Oleksiy Shevchukevych

Replied by Oleksiy Shevchukevych on topic Re: Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items

Changed the template. It still doesn't work.

As for slownes, I have noticed that it's slow only when first request is made after a while. Any subsequent request is much faster. Probably thubnails get regenerated that's why it's taking so long

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Cheetah

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16 years 11 months ago #3281 by JoomlaWorks

Replied by JoomlaWorks on topic Re: Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items

What time have you set for the thumb cache in the plugin's parameters?

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16 years 11 months ago #3282 by Oleksiy Shevchukevych

Replied by Oleksiy Shevchukevych on topic Re: Performance Problems In Multi-Page Content Items

It is set to default value which is 120 seconds

Thanks
Cheetah

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