JeevesBond — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:25:46 +0000

Well the site isn't coded very well for a start (as Demonhale pointed out). That awful text following the cursor just has to be removed, ghastly.

If you get rid of annoying effects like that (including the scrolling marquee text) and clean your code up you should have a much faster site! I checked a few of the image sizes and they seem ok.

Checking your site using a cable connection and it doesn't seem very slow, although I use Opera which is the fastest browser. That wasn't just a shameless plug of my favourite browser; the reason your site is slow may be due to Javascript effects. Opera is very fast/smooth at Javascript effects, whereas something like Firefox or IE (*yuk*) will be slower. Again: try removing the effects and other un-needed cruft and things will go faster.

Sorry if this sounds overly harsh, and if you need help with the specifics, just ask.

gleamservices — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:43:46 +0000

thanks very much........

demonhale — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:58:59 +0000

Taking a look at it and your source it seems you do have a lot of unoptimized images, a lot of uneeded markup and a lot of nested elements including some javascript. In dial-up this site will be very slow, but on broadband on my test machine it took approximately 7 seconds to load, so pretty fast on broadband. And you have some IE specific issues too that sometimes leaves the page hang a second more than the usual when loading... That's what I observed..

gleamservices — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:52:38 +0000

yer sorry
its gleamservices.co.uk

yer generally speaking its always pretty slow...

JeevesBond — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:26:20 +0000

Have you got the URL for the site?

Is it always slow, or just today?