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.

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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

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.
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Why is my iweb site "passworded" & why are my domains "mixing"?

I created a second iweb site and put it in a new folder. It shows up on my idisk as separate and I can access it using my web.mac url. I then parked 2 domains at godaddy and pointed them to my 2 web.mac sites. I can't understand why I have the following problems:
1. When I enter in Safari the domain for the first site (www.ponocat.com), it then brings up the domain for the second site (www.kcbaileyphotography.com) and opens the 2nd site. (I can still get to the 1st site thru the original <http://web.mac.com/kcbailey49/FoodStuff>, so I know the site is still there.) GoDaddy tells me this is an iweb problem, because the domain has the right pointer.
2. When I enter the name for the second site (www.kcbaileyphotography.com), I am asked for a password. I never passworded it.
Can anyone help me with these two questions?

When you create a second site in iWeb, unless you create a new domain file, it will publish to dotmac just as it does with the other site.
No need to put it in a folder.
The site at the top of the list is the default site when you type:
http://web.mac.com/kcbailey49/
Which in this case is:
http://web.mac.com/kcbailey49/kcbaileyphotography/
http://www.kcbaileyphotography.com redirects to that site.
Your domain
http://www.ponocat.com
redirects to:
http://web.mac.com/kcbailey49/FoodStuff/Home.html
When you move a site to the top of the list, or when you manually put a site (including the index.html file) in the sites folder of you iDisk, that Site will become the Default one.
Your redirects will just do what they are told. So there's no need to call on GoDaddy. Perhaps checking your redirect settings will be a good idea.
It takes a bit of mental juggling to graps all this.

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.

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.

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.

Why Is My Updated iWeb Site Corrupted After Updating?

I just updated my iWeb site last night, and yet for some reason the 1st/welcome page is showing up as corrupted. The rest of my site looks fine, but after this most recent update the first page of my site looks awful. It looks bad in Safari - it looks worse in Firefox.
I've never had this before. Why is this, and how can I fix it? Help!
www.bullshattuck.com
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Amazing! I can't believe it was that easy. Thanks for the help!
www.bullshattuck.com
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IWeb sites load extremely slow from various computers

I am sure this must be the case for everyone, but if I click on an iWeb link vs. a homepage link the difference in loading times in amazing. My old homepages load in seconds, iWeb in minutes.
This is the case if I go to the iWeb page on my mac, my pC at home, a PC at work, whatever.
Have others noticed this?

Hi NH Sullivan,
I too have also noticed less than satisfactory loading times, even for simple iWeb sites. (Again, regardless of platform, browser etc.) It seems to take a particularly long time to load the navigation sections and photo galleries.
I have not looked into a solution to this, but I have looked at the source code for iWeb generated sites and to me (Although I'm not an expert) there is a lot of unnecessary code.
Sam

Site is slow?

Hi All,
I have some questions. I have been using iWeb for a couple of months. I mainly use it for the albums page. I have about 8 albums, and each contain 60 -100 photos. I post the photos in highest quality for downloads. When I visit the site now, it is really.... really slow. I click on a photo and it takes forever to load. Also, the slide show takes forever. I have been searching a way to change the speed of the slide show? Is there one. It seems its not the same speed as the slide show in iPhoto?
How many albums can I post on one page? Will that have an effect on the speed of the web site?
Also, my parents have a PC and they can not access the site. They say after awhile of viewing photos, it crashes their explorer.... haha thats why I bought a MAC!!! Is there anything I can do to fix this?
Also have another question, I publish using iWeb, which sends my stuff to (web.me.com/.....) now I have a "mobileme gallery" button in iPhoto. There is only one photo in there. What is this and why do I have it ???? It doesn't seem to be the same web.me.com/ site? Do I delete it or show I be using it instead of iWeb?
Thanks for the help

The iWeb photos and Albums templates are about the worst way of displaying photos on a website.
You need to cut the "quality" and quantity of your photos per page.
Have a look at this site for some ideas ...
http://roddymckay.com/PhotoSatellite/iWebPhotosandMovies.html
Also see this site for stuff about flash slideshows ....
http://roddymckay.com/PhotoSatellite/iWebSlideshowsandMovies.html
You can export you photos as a gallery and link it to your iWeb site.

My iWeb site can no longer be found by browsers

I have had an iWeb site which has been live for about a month. It has been working perfectly. I have updated several times without any issue. It still appears to be working well within iWeb. I can make changes and publish changes.
I have my own domain name hosted on mobileme
When I now search the internet using any browser, it says
Can't open the page http://www.dhsem.com.au/ because the server where this page is located isn't responding.
I have checked my .mac account and everything seems to be fully functional. Why has my site suddenly disappeared off the internet?
I have tried removing the com.apple.iWeb.plist file from Library/Preferences, rebooting the computer, republishing the entire site, all to no avail.
The site is still sitting in iDisk/Web/Sites.
Everything looks normal from the iWeb side of things. For some reason, no browser can find the server (The IP address of the server is: 118.215.20.59)
Would appreciate any help

You don't need to get your domain name registrar to do this - you should easily be able to do it yourself.
Firstly, ensure that your domain name is entered into the Personal Domain name setting of your MobileMe account.
Go to your domain name registrar and then set up CNAME forwarding if they provide this and forward your domain name to web.me.com - this is all you need do - you don't need to fiddle with nameservers or anything else like that.
If they don't provide CNAME forwarding then you can use web forwarding instead.

Photo Gallery Speed in iWeb Site

Hi, I'm looking for some advice on quicker photo galleries.
I've made my organization's website using iWeb... It seems to work fine, except a lot of the site is really slow to load, especially large photo galleries. I realize a lot of this has to do with the code, but is there another solution (have the photo's hosted by some other, faster service)?
See for yourself: http://turtleconservancy.org/travel/brazil/
Thanks for your help!
Max

Hi guys, thanks for taking a look. The site is made with iWeb. The gallery was made by drag n drop + linking to image files, then adding the shadow box code in Dreamweaver.
When I said the site is slow to load, I am just looking to speed it up. It loads fine on every test machine i've used. I'm just looking to make it even faster! (Google Analytics is telling me it's slow...)
-If I hosted the linked images on another server (amazon cloud) would this speed things up?
-Is there another way to present a gallery of images with captions + shadow box (or similar, elegant) effect that would cut down the load time?
Also, a bit off topic, anyone know of a good resource to read up on taking advantage of browser cache capabilities and how to make a section of the site (ie. navbar) an "include"?
As you can clearly see, I am no pro... Haha! Any other streamlining/optimization tips are greatly appreciated!
Again, the site I'm working with here is: http://turtleconservancy.org/
Thank you for all help and advice!
-Max

My iWeb site can not be opened by many windows users only macs.

My iWeb site should open for all platforms = How to do?
I am also confused about compatability of my hard work and new iWeb sites (I love the iWeb App yet i got 4 family members all in different locations in the USA who run windows ....tell me that they could not open the web site which I announced via email.) Other Mac users did reply back saying it opened fine.
Please send me a way to enable my work to open or if u must please tell me if the windows users need a RSS Reader and or .Mac accounts and or iTunes etc etc ...I wish to feel like the work I do on my Mac is compatable for all. As is Apple continues to isolate others and will include others only if they switch....
Hey Macs are great so why not attract others with a platform that just includes all. Noone wants to enter a beautiful garden if the path to it is filled with thorns and at entrance others find a closed gate which reads You are not welcome.... that aint right and I'm a dumb bell old Dad who thought finally I was creating a web page that all could visit.
Send instructions please on how all people can access my iWeb sites.
Alex L
My post above was replied with suggestion from Tom as seen then I followed up with thanks as seen.
Anyone else out there have problems and answers per setting iWeb sites so all platforms can access your site???
I really doubt there is any way for anyone to help
you unless you provide the url which is not opening
some some users.
Thanks Tom for posting a reply which suggests I post my url so I have listed it below. I am just a Dad with all else so know that the guy writing this and using iWeb is a novice old man. I do like iWeb very much so if u can again reply or anyone reply how to allow all PC users to be able to visit this site than great.
Thanks
http://web.mac.com/alxnj/iWeb/ALsite/My_Family.html
Anyone else have ideas and or same problem?

Thanks Andy,
I wish I could have told my sister about this as she could not open my homepage back before my new iWeb site. She now can open my site without the yet in case denial window does appear = I thank you.
I think my iWeb site works as Noone has said otherwise from any platform etc...
Alex L
I do agree that should not have to be a consideration for any users so i agree that it would be great if Apple could allow simplicity to run seemlessly.
I have had this problem since Homepage, and here is
what has worked for me. I send out the link, and
then for PC users I send the link with "<" after the address (without quotation
marks. e.g., <http://site.com>).
I also put a note that if that doesn't work, to just
copy and paste the link into a browser. With that I
have only had 1 person say they still can't open.
Everyone else gets it to work.
It's a lot to do and seems like a hassle, but you get
used to it.
Hope this helps!
Andy Martini
PS - APPLE! When are you going to fix this??! It
seems like such a small thing yet you guys have been
stumped for YEARS on this!

IWeb site blank in IE, but perfect in Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Hello all,
I'm sorry, I know this question comes up again and again, but what I have read and attempted doesn't seem to help my website. I just started using iWeb last week and I really enjoy it. I was using Dreamweaver before which is a great program for CSS and HTML editing, but really doesn't compare to the simplicity and speed of designing with a WYSIWYG like iWeb.
So are there a few big culprits as to why iWeb sites don't display in IE 6,7, or 8? I realize this is pretty much an Internet Explorer problem, but can I fix at least some of the content without doing a ton of hacking to my site?
I am already fixing one issue using Dreamweaver:
iWeb: +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>+
instead of: +<xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">+
...so I'm not afraid to publish with iWeb, then edit a few things in the HTML/CSS. Can anything be done? It's a fairly simple website: mantheipc.webege.com (ignore text content, needs a lot of revision).
*Other info:*
Free hosting via 000webhost.com
iWeb '08 2.0.4
OS X 10.5.7
Dreamweaver CS5
Uploading via FileZilla
Tested to work under Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (Mac+PC)
Tested and failed to load in IE 6,7,8 at http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/
Tested and failed to load in IE 6 on XP Laptop
Thanks a lot for your time,
Dylan

Removing the first line of every HTML document permits the site to load in IE.
<xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
To figure out why IE wouldn't display my site, I created a new blank page and added an image, a hyperlink, a text box, and a fancy CSS text box. I also set a background gradient and page color. The page wouldn't display in IE, so I started deleting HTML by hand with a text editor starting with the most likely culprits (in-line CSS, javascript, etc). I was down to an image, hyperlink, bgcolor, and center tags and the site still wouldn't load. Realizing these are the most basic html tags there are, the only thing left that could cause a problem was that first line.
While I realize this is not at all an ideal solution, it worked. Not only does the site load, but it looks about as good as it does in Firefox and Chrome. No transparency issues or anything! The first line isn't vital to site display, but it does cause the browser to 'guess' what type of encoding the page is in. All of my testing indicated this isn't an issue on my PC or Mac, but I need to try friends and family's PC's too.
Tested good on:
IE8, Firefox, and Chrome in Windows 7
Firefox, Chrome, and Safari in MacOS Leopard
Thanks again to everyone who read and contributed!
Dylan

How do I remove old web site when publishing new site with same URL in iweb? Hit replace when publishing new iweb site (so we could have control over changes) but new site name is attached to old via a / after our www address we want to keep.

I hit the replace when publishing the new iweb site (so we could have control over changes - last one was not an apple based site) but new site name is attached to old via a forward slash and underscore after our www address. Makes it very messy with a very long web address. Original address now followed by iweb site name followed by name of first page? Went for iweb as not that computer literate - all going so well?! Cheers for help in anticipation. Have to get off to work now but be great end to week if we could be sorted tonight. Rupes

Well yes of course, if you try and publish through iWeb there won't be an option to publish without your site folder which is exactly why I told you to download Cyberduck and use Cyberduck to upload your site to your server having published your site from iWeb to a local folder. That is what you need to do if you don't want your site name to be included in yoru url.
It would have been easier also if you had used Cyberduck initially to connect to your server and delete your old site yourself - at least that way you would have deleted the correct files rather than relying on your hosting service to do it and doing it incorrectly.
Download Cyberduck and then select the publish to a local folder option from iWeb and then use Cyberduck to upload your site to your server, but rather than uploading the whole site folder and separate index file, upload ONLY the contents of your site folder and then your url will be http://www.domain.com/page_name.html.
It really isn't rocket science!

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