Running out of options

[share24]

I have used Joomla for many years but I have yet to optimize the site and have instead just dealt with the low performance.

Something is going on and it has caused my site to be very, very slow at times (even when it's running well it isn't fast).

It's odd because the speed tests say otherwise:

Tested Load Time Page Size Requests Page Speed
February 26 09:59:36 4.75 s 1.3 MB 117 72
February 26 09:19:37 5.17 s 1.6 MB 117 73
February 17 08:48:13 2.67 s 4.8 MB 128 74
February 17 08:36:09 2.47 s 4.8 MB 128 71
February 17 08:33:20 7.83 s 4.8 MB 128 73
January 16 21:07:39 3.75 s 6.4 MB 185 78
May 20 13:31:30 4.89 s 1.5 MB 119 91
April 24 13:14:43 2.22 s 1.8 MB 134 91
April 18 16:24:06 3.25 s 1.4 MB 112 90
April 18 16:23:17 8.79 s 1.4 MB 112 90
April 18 16:16:29 3.81 s 1.4 MB 127 90
April 18 16:00:53 44.41 s 747 B 1 100
April 18 14:20:13 4.55 s 1.4 MB 130 90
April 18 14:12:37 2.09 s 1.5 MB 112 90
April 18 14:09:39 2.02 s 1.5 MB 112 90
April 18 14:05:09 5.26 s 1.4 MB 114 91
April 18 14:01:51 26.79 s 1.5 MB 113 90
April 18 14:00:23 2.57 s 1.5 MB 111 90
April 18 13:59:54 4.68 s 1.5 MB 110 90
April 18 13:59:41 4.82 s 1.5 MB 110 90
April 18 13:59:10 8.09 s 1.5 MB 110 90
April 18 13:58:52 8.02 s 1.5 MB 111 90
April 18 13:58:12 2.73 s 1.5 MB 110 90
June 8 22:12:03 1.39 s 2.5 MB 101 92
June 8 22:11:27 1.50 s 2.5 MB 101 92

The load times above appear to be OK but when you visit the site it's a different story. Sometimes it takes minutes for a page to load.

I have tried the various cache extensions and currently use GK Cache that came with my template.

I have paid people to review the site and they tried various extensions but even the "experts" couldn't figure out what was causing the slow performance.

I took out some of the bigger extensions and moved them to their own domains using the same template and those sites work OK, so I know it's not a template issue.

There appears to be a script or something that is holding up the page from processing.

The site I'm having a problem with is www.ohiovarsity.com.

The other sites are:

www.ohiovarsitybasketball.com
http://ohiovarsityspring.com/
http://football.ohiovarsity.com/
http://baseball.ohiovarsityspring.com/
http://softball.ohiovarsityspring.com/

Any ideas?

[SharkyKZ]

Your site has a very high server response time which means cache isn't really working. Actually, it could be that you are only caching static resources. Enable Debug in Global Configuration to find out what's slowing you down.

[share24]

I turned on debugging.

SESSION

_DEFAULT

session.client.forwarded ⇒ 76.190.253.132
session.client.browser ⇒ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36

PROFILE INFORMATION

Application 0.000 seconds (+0.000); 0.33 MB (+0.331) - afterLoad
Application 2.193 seconds (+2.193); 5.64 MB (+5.311) - afterInitialise
Application 2.426 seconds (+0.233); 5.81 MB (+0.165) - afterRoute
Application 71.449 seconds (+69.023); 9.84 MB (+4.029) - afterDispatch
Application 72.919 seconds (+1.470); 10.58 MB (+0.748) - beforeRenderModule mod_custom (SiteLock)
Application 72.923 seconds (+0.004); 10.59 MB (+0.009) - afterRenderModule mod_custom (SiteLock)
Application 72.923 seconds (+0.000); 10.59 MB (-0.003) - beforeRenderModule mod_custom (Ohio Varsity on Twitter)
Application 72.923 seconds (+0.000); 10.60 MB (+0.005) - afterRenderModule mod_custom (Ohio Varsity on Twitter)
Application 72.923 seconds (+0.000); 10.59 MB (-0.003) - beforeRenderModule mod_custom (ScoreStream Scoreboard)
Application 73.065 seconds (+0.142); 10.60 MB (+0.007) - afterRenderModule mod_custom (ScoreStream Scoreboard)
Application 73.065 seconds (+0.000); 10.60 MB (-0.002) - beforeRenderModule mod_allvideosharegallery (Latest Videos)
Application 73.189 seconds (+0.124); 13.33 MB (+2.729) - afterRenderModule mod_allvideosharegallery (Latest Videos)
Application 73.204 seconds (+0.016); 10.74 MB (-2.588) - beforeRenderModule mod_custom (Ohio Varsity Sponsors)
Application 73.207 seconds (+0.002); 10.74 MB (+0.004) - afterRenderModule mod_custom (Ohio Varsity Sponsors)
Application 73.207 seconds (+0.000); 10.74 MB (-0.001) - beforeRenderModule mod_breadcrumbs (Breadcrumb)
Application 73.246 seconds (+0.039); 10.76 MB (+0.013) - afterRenderModule mod_breadcrumbs (Breadcrumb)
Application 73.247 seconds (+0.001); 10.78 MB (+0.023) - beforeRenderModule mod_news_pro_gk4 (Basketball News)
Application 102.155 seconds (+28.909); 10.99 MB (+0.211) - afterRenderModule mod_news_pro_gk4 (Basketball News)
Application 102.157 seconds (+0.002); 10.93 MB (-0.064) - beforeRenderModule mod_news_pro_gk4 (Wrestling News)
Application 104.175 seconds (+2.018); 11.01 MB (+0.082) - afterRenderModule mod_news_pro_gk4 (Wrestling News)
Application 104.177 seconds (+0.002); 10.92 MB (-0.087) - beforeRenderModule mod_finder (Search )
Application 104.734 seconds (+0.557); 11.01 MB (+0.085) - afterRenderModule mod_finder (Search )
Application 104.735 seconds (+0.001); 11.00 MB (-0.007) - beforeRenderModule mod_custom (Social Icons)
Application 104.737 seconds (+0.001); 11.00 MB (+0.005) - afterRenderModule mod_custom (Social Icons)
Application 104.738 seconds (+0.001); 11.00 MB (-0.002) - beforeRenderModule mod_menu (Sports Menu)
Application 104.801 seconds (+0.063); 11.05 MB (+0.052) - afterRenderModule mod_menu (Sports Menu)
Application 108.229 seconds (+3.428); 11.14 MB (+0.085) - afterRender

MEMORY USAGE

11.23 MB (11,776,368 Bytes)



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[share24]

I added a document with the Database queries since it included too many characters to post.

[share24]

I also turned on max error reporting and saw this on my admin screen:


Strict Standards: Declaration of GKCacheControllerPage::store() should be compatible with JCacheController::store($data, $id, $group = NULL) in /home1/ohiovar3/public_html/plugins/system/gavickExtCache/gk_assets/gk.page.php on line 0

Strict Standards: Declaration of JParameter::loadSetupFile() should be compatible with JRegistry::loadSetupFile() in /home1/ohiovar3/public_html/libraries/joomla/html/parameter.php on line 0

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /home1/ohiovar3/public_html/plugins/system/jo_k2_autopost_facebook/jo_k2_autopost_facebook.php on line 36

[share24]

From what I understand through Gavick, those aren't issues to worry about.

What I did find are 27 of this same error:

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home1/ohiovar3/public_html/libraries/joomla/factory.php on line 223

[SharkyKZ]

While PHP notices don't cause issues (when error reporting is turned off), they do mean that you are using outdated extensions.

For performance, try to enable Joomla's native caching.

[share24]

I did that both in the past and again today and it never has made a difference.