IWeb site very slow

I have created a website with iWeb08 for a local theatre company but my problem with it is that everyone trying to access it tells me it is very very slow and they also have problems with fonts (it looks good on my Mac but terrible on IE). Is there anything that can be done ? I am thinking of re-creating the site with Freeway 4. I generally like iLife'08 but iWeb is a big disappointement for me...

Your download speed is determined by the size of the page file, your server response and the speed of the internet connection of the end user. None of this is an iWeb problem- it applies to all websites no matter what application you use to create them.
If you depart from the web safe Mac/Windows fonts you can't expect them to render correctly in Internet Explorer - the worlds' worst browser.
You can get round this problem by converting your text to an image in iWeb.
To cut your download time you can decrease the size of image and media files and refrain from putting too many on a page. Its a matter of common sense and trial and error.
Optimizing your files before uploading to the server will make your website noticably faster to download.

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IWeb sites are slow to upload. text columns turn to heavy png files

Hi!
Yes I've noticed that iweb sites for some odd reason are slower to load on any browser. No matter what the hosting is. I use Me.com for a few years and iWeb as I don't have the time or patience to bother with Dreamweaver. I use Me.com for hosting as well as another web hosting server. If there is graphic material on the page, it takes so long to open. Apple must do something about it for sure.
The program iWeb itself doesn't open up fast enough if you have more than 3 pages on it (which any normal site would have). I'm glad Apple made good changes in iWeb09, but it needs to do something about the speed of the program, the sites it makes and how it processes simple matter on it.
Even though, I have come across some good examples of iWeb made sites that are easy and relatively faster to open or they open at a normal speed. The authors also have used flash material on their iWeb sites. I have a non-registered program (web site Maestro) that claims to ease up and streamline the graphic and other heavy content on a iWeb site to make it lighter with loading.
But the unregistered version works on 70 percent files only. And I don't really notice any difference with it either. So I'm doubtful of buying the full version.
Any thoughts? Solutions? Would really appreciate.
ANOTHER ISSUE that I have discovered while making iWeb site is that a text column put on a shape after publishing turns into a heavy PNG picture file that can weight almost upto 1 whole megabyte!!!
And you keep wondering why the darn page is so slow to open!!! Cuz a simple text could've been just about 50kb. But it turns into a 900kb picture in png!!! Is there a way to change this?? I guess, taking out the picture from the published site folder and reediting it in - say - Photoshop reducing its size may help. But its so cumbersome and arduous to go into every darn folder and open all the text now converted into pics and re-edit them!! And then their reduced quality will make the text look feeble and bad quality too.
This is a problem that APPLE iWEB experts Must work on. iWeb gives a certain flexibility as its like a free flowing canvas. But then its also a known fact that iWeb sites are exceptionally heavier to open, unless you know many other tweaks here and there to make it work right. But again, this is contrary to the purpose of iWeb, cuz its made for amateur site makers.
I wish there is a work around this thing really.
ANY SUGGESTIONS FRIENDS?? WOULD LOVE TO HEAR. PLEASE SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS AND SOLUTIONS.
Thanks.
Regards,
Nitesh

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Shapes by their very nature are graphic elements that end up a png file whether there's text in them or not. You should try adding the text in a text box above the shape and see if there's any difference. Just be sure to use a Web Safe Font and not add any enhancements that will turn it into a image file:
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You may not notice a difference with loading with WSM but those with Internet Explorer should. Have you tested your site with and without WSM on a PC?
In WSM you can set the amount of optimizing for graphics. I've set it at about 60% (moderate) and haven't tested other settings for image quality. I'm sure a lower quality level, i.e. more compression, will have a impact on file loading. I just don't have a feel for the greatest amount of compression that will still have acceptable image quality. You'll just have to experiment.
If your site is a commercial site then using a commercial hosting server is the best option. Also, it's reported that using a Text Based Navbar instead of iWeb's java based one will help dark side compatibility.
Be sure to put in feature requests for the improvements that you see necessary to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html.
OT

General inquiry - Why ar .Mac and publishing/accessing iWeb sites so slow??

Greetings,
I do realize that that general topic has been addressed somehow many times, in whole or in parts. I am just shooting for a general update on the subject(s).
I have grown fond of iWeb and just renewed my .Mac subscription. I am also a user of Dreamweaver and FrontPage. I just find the iWeb/.Mac combination so straight forward and... irresistible fun to play with!
BUT, before i commit more to that environment, I need to know - again:
1. Why is .Mac/iDisk so slow in access?
2. Correspondingly, publishing to .Mac and iDisk is slow. Why, actually?
3. Difficulties in accessing iWeb sites published to .Mac/iDisk when using InternetExplorer (which, whether we want it or not, IS the predominant browser out there...). We know Firefox is better at it.
4. Ultimately, would publishing iWeb sites to other servers (I have a couple of non-iWeb websites currently hosted elsewhere) make publishing AND accessing such sites speedier?
I will appreciate any advice, input, assessment.
- Roger T

I think it's because it's more a social server with a lot of server side features available for .Mac users and iLife applications. Therefore there's a fair amount of server work when users use it for email, web sites with slideshows, backing up, etc. A commercial server will be much faster. There are othesr here that know more about servers than I and can give you a more technical explanation. But you're right, it is slow but convenient.
OT

Managing Site - Very slow

Lately when I have to set up a new site and I click new or
edit in Manage Sites, it's very slow, almost like its hung up and
DW8 is freezing up, finally it goes to the next window. What could
cause that? It's never done that before. Is it a bug or something?
I'm using version 8.0.2

Probably better off asking this question in the DW newsgroup
- alex
geovino wrote:
> Lately when I have to set up a new site and I click new
or edit in Manage
> Sites, it's very slow, almost like its hung up and DW8
is freezing up, finally
> it goes to the next window. What could cause that? It's
never done that before.
> Is it a bug or something?
> I'm using version 8.0.2
>
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Site VERY slow

I've got a flash site that from time to time seams to be
extremely slow. It has an intro page then a loading page before the
main site. The main site also loads swf files when you click on
thumbnails. The problem is that the site is very slow and is even
worse after I've updated it. I'm sure there's something I can do
the speed it up, but I don't know what. The hosting company say
there's no problem with their systems.
If it helps you can see the site
here
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I've checked the site and it's fast!
Flash websites use processor power on the computer when you
view them. It might be slow because you were checking the website
on a slow computer....
On mine it works great :-)

SharePoint Site Very Slow and some time Request Timed Out

Hi All
I have many Web Application is running in SharePoint Farm. Since yesterday one of the web application started responding very slow. It takes 5 to 6 mins to load the page. Some time i received request timed out error message. But all other web applications
are working good.
I increased executionTimeout value, stall it slow / not responding.
Please let us know if you have come across this issues or any suggestion from your end to resolve this issue.
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i would recommend enable the developer dashboard on the web app and check which task is consuming the more time i.e. webpart, query to database etc.
also any change to web app since the issue started, any new webpart added to the page, any solution deployed or something else.
also did you try to recycle the app pool of the web applications?
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Why is my iWeb site so slow?

I created a website for my client and it takes forever to load, how can i fix this issue?
Ps. Let me know if you would like to know the web address, I will not post it in this forum to keep things professional, but I can email it to you if you send me your email.

Sites can be speeded up by refraining from using stuff like frames and drop shadows on images, optimizing the images before loading into iWeb and avoiding changing text to image.
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Photos/Image-Optimization.html
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Photos/Preview.html
A noticeable increase in download speed can be obtained by using an optimizer application...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Optimize.html
Don't allow movies to load with the web page. Various methods of achieving this are shown here...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Movie-Video/Player-Showcase.html
You can email me if you want.

Https sites very slow on HH3 ....an idiot posts...

Hi
I'm an idiot as you shall see.
After having spent some considerable time reading this and other forums I think my problem is summed up as:
- HH3 been happily operating for some time but after several months an issue started to develop. Any secure site, (shopping, banking, work log on etc )suddenly takes an age to load and eventually they start to time out
- all devices experience the same effect at the same time - desktop, laptop, ipad
- turn off HH3 for a few minutes and then on again and lo and behold they speed along for a few days until they start to slow down and so on through a repeating pattern.
From what I've been reading turning it off and on again isn't clever in the long run as your line 'looks' worse to the BT guru exchange thingy which may downgrade your speed (ours ADSL typically 5M) and I'd obviously not want that to happen.... it's also a pain in the backside to keep wandering around the house to flick the switches.
Cue lots of browsing and my idiot interpretation leads me to think I should be doing something clever with port-forwarding(?) Looking at the hub manager it looks like I could choose https and direct it to A device (say the laptop) BUT...
1- does this mean that going forwards ONLY the laptop would be able to access the https sites?
2- can I open the https to more than one device in the hub manager
3- am I completely barking up the wrong tree and I should be looking at something else entirely?
As per my intial comments this isn't my forte at all so if any help could be in really basic terms I'd be grateful.....

This is rather odd....
The differences between https and http happens at a different (higher) part of the network stack to either Wi-Fi or ADSL, so it seems at first thought unlikely that the HH is the root cause. On the other hand for it to happen on all your devices suggests that it is not an OS issue (which is where I would have thought this would lie) - which points us back to the HH as the common failure point.
One thing that does occur to me is that a few years back I had a router that would lose connectivity whenever I tried to open a RealPlayer stream forcing me to restart it - this was resolved when I replaced the router, which tells me that router faults can sometimes be triggered by specific network protocols. This makes me suspect you might have a fault in your hub. The first thing to try is a factory reset to rule out a software or configuration issue - if that does not help then it may be hardware related, but the only way to verify that is to replace the hub (or ideally borrow one for a bit).
Port forwarding will not help you as that is a way of allowing incoming connection requests to be handled by a server on your network - wheras your browser makes outgoing requests, and I suspect you are not running any servers on your network. In any case it would do nothing to address the underlying fault.

IWeb site remade in Dreamweaver - cleaner code, faster loading?

I love iWeb. But iWeb sites load slow ... and there is a LOT of messy code in there (my web experts and html whiz friends tell me this). I've tried optimizers, but found they often create odd and unpredictable glitches on individual pages. And only speed up the load process by 10%.
I'm experimenting with designing the site in iWeb, then transferring all the materials\text\graphics into Dreamweaver ... to see if this gives me a faster loading site. I wonder if I'm wasting my time?
And I'd love to know a way to have the iWeb sites load faster ...
Ben

I don't think you can pin it down to a percentage for each page. If you watch WSM as it optimizes your files you will see the saving for each file in the window - if you are quick!
I publish my websites to Mobile Me to test them and then optimize and upload them to a commercial server. The difference in download time is noticeable.
Where WSM really scores is when trying to get your website to load in IE - the World's Worst Browser.
Pages that hang and lock up IE will usually load after optimizing.
I have had the band of missing background occasionally. Usually I would just run the files again and mistakes are corrected - sometimes it takes two or three passes.
After running the files again I launch the offending page in my browser directly from the WSM output folder (by double clicking the .html file) so that I can check it before uploading again.

Installed latest iTunes now Firefox very slow

I installed the latest version of iTunes. Now when I use Firefox getting to sites very slow. I'm talking about just common ones like Yahoo or Facebook.
Also noticed my Dropbox won't connect from PC.
Nothing else changed.
Running windows 7.
iTunes 12.1.0.71
Gary

Refer to these articles:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
iPod: Appears in Windows but not in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1363

IWeb editing pages very slow

Hello,
i am using iweb creating some personnal websites, but, while editing the pages i have in the site with iweb, it orks very slow, even when writing text i write the letters and after i look at the screen and sometimes i see it still is writing what i typed a few miliseconds before.
I am using the iweb file i backed up from another macbook pro 3,1 .
With this intel core i7, it should be fast, very fast.
What may be the problem? how can i correct this?
Thank you for your help.
Luís Neta

Bonjour
What is the size of your domain file (domain.sites2) ?
By default, the domain file is there:
Macinstosh HD > Users > Home folder (Username) > Library > application Support > iWeb > domain.sites2

Iweb site on .mac LOADING SLOW! Please Help

My iweb site loads very slow. It does have a lot of images, but can someone help me to convert some of my text files that iweb made images to text? Or any other advice would be much appreciated.
Here's my site it's hosted on .mac
http://youth.kccfamily.org
Thanks!

But if that's the solution, then doesn't that mean
that if I add a new site as a separate domain file,
it will delete all the old domains again? (my
bandwidth is not unlimited, though I can use the
connection at work…)
No, it won't do this, since any new sites you will (hopefully) be creating in new domain files. The reason it happens after you split the domain files is because each newly split Domain file still had memory of ALL of your sites. So when you deleted the extra sites out to leave one, then iWeb thinks that you wanted them deleted from online as well. That's why it deletes the other sites when you publish one. But after the first round of "Publish Alls", iWeb is satisfied that it has done its job, and it has purged any knowledge of those other sites in the process. So it won't happen again.
And does using iWebsites complicate matters?
iWeb won't complicate matters as far as publishing goes.
How much of a difference does it make, and would it
be safer to use the manual folder / Domain file
structure?
Either method is safe as long as you understand what is going on. All that iWebSites is doing is moving around the different Domain files for you. It also helps you to create new Domain files. It supposed to be easier than doing things manually...or you don't need to know the manual method if you use iWebSites.

HT1498 Apple TV Rented Movies Very Slow to download, Like 2 hrs or more, was around 2-3 min to load and start the movie, Its NOT my provider? as other movies from other sites down load in a short time

Hi Guys
Over resent weeks the down load time for the Appel TV Gen 3 has gone very slow, To the point that you can not watch the movie as it does but buffer and you have to stop about every 15 mins. I have a fully cable internet at 100mps or more. Other Australian sites down load movies in 2-3 min at worst and often can stat and play thought in 1 min 30 secs.
Apply TV was not like this in fast month to April, But May and June are Not Good

Have you verified speed via speedtest.net ?
Have you checked at different times?
Check istumbler or netstumbler to verify interference
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Safari was very slow in opening up Google sites. I found a discussion thread that suggested changing the "Configure IPv6" setting to "Off" in the System Preferences, Network, Advanced, TCP/IP section. That seems to work well. Are there any risks?

Safari was very slow in opening up Google sites. I found a discussion thread that suggested changing the "Configure IPv6" setting to "Off" in the System Preferences, Network, Advanced, TCP/IP section. That seems to work well. Are there any risks to leaving the Configure IPv6 setting to Off?

Nope. You can always reverse that if you choose.

Site manager very slow

I'm using DW8 ver. 8.0.2 and lately when I go to the site
manager to create new or edit a site it's very slow, like DW is not
responding, then it finally goes to the next window. Is there some
bugs in DW8 that need fixing?
Also: I added this topic yesterday and this morning it wasn't
listed in My Forums. Why?

How many sites do you have? Are the sites all located on the
computer that
is running DW? Are you running antivirus scans in real time?
How large are
the sites?
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