Actinic v10 Slowness

[FionaTaylor]

Actinic v10 has been so slow for the past 4 days I can't work on it. It's taking me at least 2 minutes to put in/move a new product whereas previously it has been instant. Please please help as I have post-budget pricing that really needs amending. Thanks.

[Mike Hughes]

1. Compact your database.

2. What have you added recently? it's usually something calling an external script / image that causes this as Actinic loads these in preview mode and it slows everything down. Things like add-this, etc need to be blocked from preview mode.

3. Have you enough memory? Check your system resources in task manager and see what else might be running at the same time.

4. External linking can also cause slowness.

Mike

[NormanRouxel]

Assuming that your site is christopherpiperwines.co.uk you are loading a lot of code directly from your server:

<script src="http://www.christopherpiperwines.co.uk/cpw-thirdpartycode/prettyPhoto/js/jquery-1.6.1.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.christopherpiperwines.co.uk/cpw-thirdpartycode/prettyPhoto/css/prettyPhoto.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" />
<script src="http://www.christopherpiperwines.co.uk/cpw-thirdpartycode/prettyPhoto/js/jquery.prettyPhoto.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.christopherpiperwines.co.uk/cpw-thirdpartycode/cu3er/home/js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.christopherpiperwines.co.uk/cpw-thirdpartycode/cu3er/home/js/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.christopherpiperwines.co.uk/cpw-thirdpartycode/cu3er/home/js/jquery.cu3er.js"></script>
.
.
xml_location : 'http://www.christopherpiperwines.co.uk/cpw-thirdpartycode/cu3er/home/cu3er.xml',
swf_location: 'http://www.christopherpiperwines.co.uk/cpw-thirdpartycode/cu3er/home/CU3ER.swf'
.
.
google-analytics.com
.
.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script>

Unless you've taken steps to stop this code being generated when Previewing this could be causing the slowdown. The usual method of preventing this is to put BlockIf's containing IsNotPreviewMode around such bits of code. Ask whoever put in these bits of code (they're not SellerDeck created) to check.

A quick test might be to disconnect your system from the internet (just pull out the network cable) and see if that helps.

[FionaTaylor]

Thanks everyone for your help. I added 'Pinterest' icon to our website recently and this seems to have taken effect last week and slowed everything down - but strangely enough not immediately. Have now blocked the code (thanks to Alan at Sellerdeck) and things restored to normal.