[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Product Carousel considerably lowering page load t ## - **[geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile")** - [![geekbyte's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte) Less More - Posts: 26 - Thank you received: 3 - - 13 years 3 months ago - 13 years 3 months ago [\#114124](#114124) by [geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile") *[Product Carousel considerably lowering page load t](/forum/3-bug-report/85379-product-carousel-considerably-lowering-page-load-t#114124 "Hi, I've been having slow load times on the front page of my shop ( www.geekbyte.com.au ) I asked my webhost about this and they found that the carousel may be causing the issues. I've investigated my product carousel further by running firebug net tools and measuring the initial HTTP 200 GET time. When the carousel module is enabled and displayed the response time varies between 1.5 seconds to 13 seconds When I disable the carousel module - the response time drops down to around a 500 millisecond average. I did this test several times throughout the day and it showed the same behaviour - google pagespeed insights also reported a better score when I had this module disabled. I like the display of the module on my front page so I'm hoping I don't have to remove it in order to improve the loading time. I took some quick notes with a before and after comparison below Module is enabled: Initial 200 HTTP get response time. 2.1 seconds 1.42 seconds 1.49 seconds 1.87 seconds 8.23 seconds 9.5 seconds 10.56 seconds 13.27 seconds 3.65 seconds 1.48 seconds 1.44 seconds 1.48 seconds Module is disabled Initial HTTP 200 GET response time 1.57 seconds 1.85 seconds 2.02 seconds 680 ms 620 ms 540 ms 480 ms 500 ms 500 ms 410 ms 420 ms 440 ms 510 ms 410 ms 450 ms Re-enabled 3.51 seconds 1.49 seconds (this carries on being high) All the other pages of my shop show around a 300-500ms response time so i'm convinced this module is causing the problems. Can you please assist or provide advice on what I can do to fix this?")* was created by *[geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile")* Hi, I've been having slow load times on the front page of my shop ([ www.geekbyte.com.au](http://www.geekbyte.com.au)) I asked my webhost about this and they found that the carousel may be causing the issues. I've investigated my product carousel further by running firebug net tools and measuring the initial HTTP 200 GET time. When the carousel module is enabled and displayed the response time varies between 1.5 seconds to 13 seconds When I disable the carousel module - the response time drops down to around a 500 millisecond average. I did this test several times throughout the day and it showed the same behaviour - google pagespeed insights also reported a better score when I had this module disabled. I like the display of the module on my front page so I'm hoping I don't have to remove it in order to improve the loading time. I took some quick notes with a before and after comparison below Module is enabled: Initial 200 HTTP get response time. 2.1 seconds 1.42 seconds 1.49 seconds 1.87 seconds 8.23 seconds 9.5 seconds 10.56 seconds 13.27 seconds 3.65 seconds 1.48 seconds 1.44 seconds 1.48 seconds Module is disabled Initial HTTP 200 GET response time 1.57 seconds 1.85 seconds 2.02 seconds 680 ms 620 ms 540 ms 480 ms 500 ms 500 ms 410 ms 420 ms 440 ms 510 ms 410 ms 450 ms Re-enabled 3.51 seconds 1.49 seconds (this carries on being high) All the other pages of my shop show around a 300-500ms response time so i'm convinced this module is causing the problems. Can you please assist or provide advice on what I can do to fix this? - [ ![modulesettings.png](/forum/attachment/11146) ](/forum/attachment/11146 "...lesettings.png") [ ](/forum/attachment/11146?download=1 "...lesettings.png") Last edit: 13 years 3 months ago by [geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile"). Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzMtYnVnLXJlcG9ydC84NTM3OS1wcm9kdWN0LWNhcm91c2VsLWNvbnNpZGVyYWJseS1sb3dlcmluZy1wYWdlLWxvYWQtdD90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86283 - Thank you received: 14262 - - 13 years 3 months ago [\#114168](#114168) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Product Carousel considerably lowering page load t](/forum/3-bug-report/85379-product-carousel-considerably-lowering-page-load-t#114168 "Hi, I've been having slow load times on the front page of my shop ( www.geekbyte.com.au ) I asked my webhost about this and they found that the carousel may be causing the issues. I've investigated my product carousel further by running firebug net tools and measuring the initial HTTP 200 GET time. When the carousel module is enabled and displayed the response time varies between 1.5 seconds to 13 seconds When I disable the carousel module - the response time drops down to around a 500 millisecond average. I did this test several times throughout the day and it showed the same behaviour - google pagespeed insights also reported a better score when I had this module disabled. I like the display of the module on my front page so I'm hoping I don't have to remove it in order to improve the loading time. I took some quick notes with a before and after comparison below Module is enabled: Initial 200 HTTP get response time. 2.1 seconds 1.42 seconds 1.49 seconds 1.87 seconds 8.23 seconds 9.5 seconds 10.56 seconds 13.27 seconds 3.65 seconds 1.48 seconds 1.44 seconds 1.48 seconds Module is disabled Initial HTTP 200 GET response time 1.57 seconds 1.85 seconds 2.02 seconds 680 ms 620 ms 540 ms 480 ms 500 ms 500 ms 410 ms 420 ms 440 ms 510 ms 410 ms 450 ms Re-enabled 3.51 seconds 1.49 seconds (this carries on being high) All the other pages of my shop show around a 300-500ms response time so i'm convinced this module is causing the problems. Can you please assist or provide advice on what I can do to fix this?")* Hi, As far as I can see, it's the download time of the big images of the carousel which takes time for the carousel. It takes between 400 and 800ms to download each one of them on my end. I however don't see what you can do to avoid that besides not using a carousel or reducing the size of the images. Then, the CSS on the page takes 3 seconds to download on my end. The following user(s) said Thank You: [geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzMtYnVnLXJlcG9ydC84NTM3OS1wcm9kdWN0LWNhcm91c2VsLWNvbnNpZGVyYWJseS1sb3dlcmluZy1wYWdlLWxvYWQtdD90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile")** - [![geekbyte's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte) Less More - Posts: 26 - Thank you received: 3 - - 13 years 3 months ago [\#114201](#114201) by [geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile") Replied by *[geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile")* on topic *[Product Carousel considerably lowering page load t](/forum/3-bug-report/85379-product-carousel-considerably-lowering-page-load-t#114201 "Hi, I've been having slow load times on the front page of my shop ( www.geekbyte.com.au ) I asked my webhost about this and they found that the carousel may be causing the issues. I've investigated my product carousel further by running firebug net tools and measuring the initial HTTP 200 GET time. When the carousel module is enabled and displayed the response time varies between 1.5 seconds to 13 seconds When I disable the carousel module - the response time drops down to around a 500 millisecond average. I did this test several times throughout the day and it showed the same behaviour - google pagespeed insights also reported a better score when I had this module disabled. I like the display of the module on my front page so I'm hoping I don't have to remove it in order to improve the loading time. I took some quick notes with a before and after comparison below Module is enabled: Initial 200 HTTP get response time. 2.1 seconds 1.42 seconds 1.49 seconds 1.87 seconds 8.23 seconds 9.5 seconds 10.56 seconds 13.27 seconds 3.65 seconds 1.48 seconds 1.44 seconds 1.48 seconds Module is disabled Initial HTTP 200 GET response time 1.57 seconds 1.85 seconds 2.02 seconds 680 ms 620 ms 540 ms 480 ms 500 ms 500 ms 410 ms 420 ms 440 ms 510 ms 410 ms 450 ms Re-enabled 3.51 seconds 1.49 seconds (this carries on being high) All the other pages of my shop show around a 300-500ms response time so i'm convinced this module is causing the problems. Can you please assist or provide advice on what I can do to fix this?")* Hi Nicolas, Thanks for the reply - What you said sounds right about the image loading. I'm guessing the page is waiting for the images to load on the carousel before proceeding with the rest of the site. It would be good if the images could be pulled down only when they need to be displayed - would be a lot of work to develop that though. ![:)](/media/kunena/emoticons/8.png ":)") I'll see what I can do for a workaround.. It might end up with me having to remove the carousel though ![:(](/media/kunena/emoticons/5.png ":(") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzMtYnVnLXJlcG9ydC84NTM3OS1wcm9kdWN0LWNhcm91c2VsLWNvbnNpZGVyYWJseS1sb3dlcmluZy1wYWdlLWxvYWQtdD90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86283 - Thank you received: 14262 - - 13 years 3 months ago [\#114205](#114205) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Product Carousel considerably lowering page load t](/forum/3-bug-report/85379-product-carousel-considerably-lowering-page-load-t#114205 "Hi, I've been having slow load times on the front page of my shop ( www.geekbyte.com.au ) I asked my webhost about this and they found that the carousel may be causing the issues. I've investigated my product carousel further by running firebug net tools and measuring the initial HTTP 200 GET time. When the carousel module is enabled and displayed the response time varies between 1.5 seconds to 13 seconds When I disable the carousel module - the response time drops down to around a 500 millisecond average. I did this test several times throughout the day and it showed the same behaviour - google pagespeed insights also reported a better score when I had this module disabled. I like the display of the module on my front page so I'm hoping I don't have to remove it in order to improve the loading time. I took some quick notes with a before and after comparison below Module is enabled: Initial 200 HTTP get response time. 2.1 seconds 1.42 seconds 1.49 seconds 1.87 seconds 8.23 seconds 9.5 seconds 10.56 seconds 13.27 seconds 3.65 seconds 1.48 seconds 1.44 seconds 1.48 seconds Module is disabled Initial HTTP 200 GET response time 1.57 seconds 1.85 seconds 2.02 seconds 680 ms 620 ms 540 ms 480 ms 500 ms 500 ms 410 ms 420 ms 440 ms 510 ms 410 ms 450 ms Re-enabled 3.51 seconds 1.49 seconds (this carries on being high) All the other pages of my shop show around a 300-500ms response time so i'm convinced this module is causing the problems. Can you please assist or provide advice on what I can do to fix this?")* There are some plugins which can lazy load the images on your page, like this one: [ extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-en...te-performance/18035](http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/performance/site-performance/18035) The following user(s) said Thank You: [geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzMtYnVnLXJlcG9ydC84NTM3OS1wcm9kdWN0LWNhcm91c2VsLWNvbnNpZGVyYWJseS1sb3dlcmluZy1wYWdlLWxvYWQtdD90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile")** - [![geekbyte's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte) Less More - Posts: 26 - Thank you received: 3 - - 13 years 3 months ago [\#114208](#114208) by [geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile") Replied by *[geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile")* on topic *[Product Carousel considerably lowering page load t](/forum/3-bug-report/85379-product-carousel-considerably-lowering-page-load-t#114208 "Hi, I've been having slow load times on the front page of my shop ( www.geekbyte.com.au ) I asked my webhost about this and they found that the carousel may be causing the issues. I've investigated my product carousel further by running firebug net tools and measuring the initial HTTP 200 GET time. When the carousel module is enabled and displayed the response time varies between 1.5 seconds to 13 seconds When I disable the carousel module - the response time drops down to around a 500 millisecond average. I did this test several times throughout the day and it showed the same behaviour - google pagespeed insights also reported a better score when I had this module disabled. I like the display of the module on my front page so I'm hoping I don't have to remove it in order to improve the loading time. I took some quick notes with a before and after comparison below Module is enabled: Initial 200 HTTP get response time. 2.1 seconds 1.42 seconds 1.49 seconds 1.87 seconds 8.23 seconds 9.5 seconds 10.56 seconds 13.27 seconds 3.65 seconds 1.48 seconds 1.44 seconds 1.48 seconds Module is disabled Initial HTTP 200 GET response time 1.57 seconds 1.85 seconds 2.02 seconds 680 ms 620 ms 540 ms 480 ms 500 ms 500 ms 410 ms 420 ms 440 ms 510 ms 410 ms 450 ms Re-enabled 3.51 seconds 1.49 seconds (this carries on being high) All the other pages of my shop show around a 300-500ms response time so i'm convinced this module is causing the problems. Can you please assist or provide advice on what I can do to fix this?")* Great! Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give these a go and let you know if it makes an improvement. 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I've investigated my product carousel further by running firebug net tools and measuring the initial HTTP 200 GET time. When the carousel module is enabled and displayed the response time varies between 1.5 seconds to 13 seconds When I disable the carousel module - the response time drops down to around a 500 millisecond average. I did this test several times throughout the day and it showed the same behaviour - google pagespeed insights also reported a better score when I had this module disabled. I like the display of the module on my front page so I'm hoping I don't have to remove it in order to improve the loading time. I took some quick notes with a before and after comparison below Module is enabled: Initial 200 HTTP get response time. 2.1 seconds 1.42 seconds 1.49 seconds 1.87 seconds 8.23 seconds 9.5 seconds 10.56 seconds 13.27 seconds 3.65 seconds 1.48 seconds 1.44 seconds 1.48 seconds Module is disabled Initial HTTP 200 GET response time 1.57 seconds 1.85 seconds 2.02 seconds 680 ms 620 ms 540 ms 480 ms 500 ms 500 ms 410 ms 420 ms 440 ms 510 ms 410 ms 450 ms Re-enabled 3.51 seconds 1.49 seconds (this carries on being high) All the other pages of my shop show around a 300-500ms response time so i'm convinced this module is causing the problems. Can you please assist or provide advice on what I can do to fix this?")* Edit: ignore this ![:)](/media/kunena/emoticons/8.png ":)") Incorrect information Last edit: 13 years 3 months ago by [geekbyte](/forum/user/8118-geekbyte "View geekbyte's Profile"). 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