Loading Speed Is Slow, Can Not Figure Out Why, Please Help

Upon creating one of our e-stores GPSNY, we ran into a problem with horrible load times. We built the site in a frame structure. It can be viewed here http://www.gpsny.com.

We were experiening long pauses between page loading, etc. and were hoping there was some sort of solution to illiinate this. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

At times the site is super fast, but 9/10 times its very slow.

Thank you,

I must have caught it at a good time. It was quick loading for me.

What language are you using for the store CGI script and what database?

That info might help some.

I got the same as ATNO. It moved rather quickly for me. Does this lengthy load time occur when you are doing updates and work on the site and e-store, or just surfing in general?

The store was designed using primarily html with several yahoo store tags, which generate image price and description. Their is no consistent trend to when it is going to load slow, but when it does you will know. I assumed it occurred when you use frames, but found many sites which don't.

I also was looking for any feedback in the design, navigation, layout of this site. We are going to go big with it when it launches complete.

Thank you for your time, and comments.

"Yahoo store tags"?

Is it actually pulling information real-time from Yahoo? If Yahoo is running a little slow to your server, that could be what's causing the slow-down, because your server has to wait'll it's gotten the information from Yahoo before it can display the page to the user.

I just loaded up the site though, and I saw the same as ATNO and shark. Running nice & quick. Perhaps it's just your internet connection?

I had this same loading problem on my site. But all I did was change the image formats from jpg to gif and it loads alot faster. Plus I took alot of needless content off. Goodluck.

Store seems to load fast for me also. I don't know if it is your internet connection, but for most people, the site loads at a nice speed.

Site loaded quick for me, design looks a bit cluttered though.

Would have to agree with AXE on his comments. If you are running anything from a third party server it is probably the speed of the third party server that is slowing things down.

You might also want to take a look at how much more you can optimise the images - if you want.

Good luck