SLOW speed on WIFI!

[BULLDOG]

I have just had fiber net installed in my apartment.

I've tested the speed which showed a result of 45/38 megabit per second.

So the speed is fine!

BUT when I browse pipesmokerunlimited on my iPhone using Safari AND WiFi, the speed is very slow, but ONLY on pipesmokerunlimited.com! On all other sites, the speed is super fast!

If I choose to browse pipesmokerunlimited.com on LTE on my iPhone instead of WiFi, the speed becomes super fast. As soon as I switch back to WiFi, the speed becomes very slow.

On my computer (Windows Vista), I can now only use WiFi... this means that I cannot browse pipesmokerunlimited.com properly anymore as the slow speed is killing me!

Here's a ping test I made:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/10/32.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/xhvdxcbb5/full/)
upload an image (http://postimage.org/)

Please help me fix this so that I can again get the high speed back on pipesmokerunlimited.com using WiFi!

[Max Taxable]

Gzip compression and caching of static content would be your friend. That site is slow even for fast cable connections, 14-16 second load time.

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/141003_NT_9P/

Might "seem" fast to you due to your browser caching.

Your jquery and external.php scripts are returning 404 errors too.

[BULLDOG]

Thanks!

So please what do I need to do to fix it?

We're losing members because of this, so I need help quickly.

[ozzy47]

How by changing your WIFI does this affect other users?

[BULLDOG]

It's not just me who experiences the site lag but practically every user...

What puzzles me is that the site is fast on LTE on the phone but not on WiFi (and just tested WiFi speed again which showed 51 / 36 megabits per second).

How do I change WiFi?

BTW.: for instance THIS site works just fine! It's only pipesmokerunlimited that seems to have problems.

[ozzy47]

You need to correct the issues Max pointed out in post #2 first.

[BULLDOG]

Okay, thanks! So how do I go about correcting those mentioned issues?

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I downloaded the Firefox browser to see how that works... still slow speed!

BUT:

Every time I refresh or navigate the page, I see the browser telling me "Finding www.pipesmokerunleased"... (this was the forums old name and url).

So we need to remove that re-direct!

How to go about this, please?

[Lynne]

I'm not seeing any redirect, but the site does take a bit to load. You may want to consider switching the default from activity.php to forum.php. How did you do the the redirect? Do you have an .htaccess file? What is in there?

[BULLDOG]

How / where do I do that switch, Lynne?

Also, the owner made this test that showed the below results... how / where do we fix the things in red?

Still, I find it very odd that the site works just fine on LTE on my phone but NOT on WiFi on the computer and the phone... how come this happens??

The test:

http://s1.postimg.org/4r6j5ffof/psuproblems.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

[Dave]

Disable/remove Arrowchat, remove all of the resources and references. (Check the footer template?)

[ozzy47]

How / where do I do that switch, Lynne?

To switch the default page.

1) Go to your Admin CP

2) On the side menu expand "Settings" and click on "Navigation Manager"

3) The Navigation Manager will look like this, though you probably have less tabs then I do. You will see "What's New" is listed as "Default."

4) To change the default find the drop down menu on the line of the tab you want to be default. In this example we will make "Forum" the new default. Choose "Set Default."

5) If necessary click "Go" after selecting Set Default- This will bring you to the final page-

6) Confirm your choice by clicking on "Save."

You will then be returned to the Navigation Manager and "Forum" will be the new default tab. So if anyone goes to www.yoursite.com or www.yoursite.com/index.php they will see the "Forum" page.

[Jesla]

..... Do you have an .htaccess file? What is in there?

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
# BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48
# the above regex won't work. You can use the following
# workaround to get the desired effect:
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

[Lynne]

Do what is suggested in post 10 and 11. arrowchat is definitely causing issues (all those issues in red that are in your image are from arrowchat).

Also, try removing the .htaccess and see if that makes a difference (just rename it to disable it).

[Jesla]

I renamed the .htaccess.....

I don't see an arrowchat directory that those errors point too.....

Where would I look for where these errors are coming from?

Thanks for all the help......

[Dave]

I renamed the .htaccess.....

I don't see an arrowchat directory that those errors point too.....

Where would I look for where these errors are coming from?

Thanks for all the help......

Disable the Arrowchat plugin, if present.
Search through the templates for "arrowchat" and remove all references.

[Lynne]

I don't see an arrowchat directory that those errors point too.....

Where would I look for where these errors are coming from?

Thanks for all the help......
The errors are because there is no directory there, thus it can't find the files. So, disable the modification.

[Jesla]

Done......so far so good, I haven't crashed the site anyway.

Found and deleted arrowchat in the template Header.

How would I just comment out the line instead of deleting it?

I also changed some lines in the template that referred to
pipesmokerunleashed.com to pipesmokerunlimited.com.....

[Dave]

Your site loads a lot faster to me now. ;)

[Jesla]

Cool, thank you guys so much......

[thetechgenius]

Yeah, it loads very fast for me too.

If you want to load even faster, install (Linux) Google Page Speed or (windows) IISpeed on your server and enable it for every site you want to load faster. I have IISpeed enabled on my server and site, and it loads very fast. However, the first time you enable it for your site, it might take awhile for it to start working properly, because it needs to start caching your site resources.

[BULLDOG]

Thanks for the help, guys!