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I had rebuilt a site exactly as it had been when it was pumping sales a few years ago, but there was more data and the page was taking 20 seconds or more to load, sometimes, rarely, up to 90 seconds.
Since it was an excellent perl script it was retrieving amazingly relevant results in ways most webmasters wouldn't dream of.
So I reverse-engineered the system, slightly, by "pressing" all the results possible so that the script is all run in advance and now they just access it by retrieving a flat object via a direct 1 to 1 path with no extraneous parsing whatsoever.
Consequently it runs at top speed, the way it used to when it was young (because it had much less data, so it didn't mind - but now with more data I am seeing more users, more sales and more income), and the influence on the traffic is amazing - they were clicking much less when it ran slowly, even on the many links which didn't run slowly - i.e. the psychological problem was that the whole site felt slower so they didn't often go very deep in.
A key thing to take note of! 1. When replicating a past success, be sure it is a full replication. and 2. Don't let your site be slow (so for starters quit using these custom made content management systems and blog sites and arsepedias and arse sites of every kind... do it the wholesome way, make it on your own hosting, better still your own server, better still your own LINUX server - the good proper opensource way).
Great news for me.
Last edited by hairygunther; 06-26-2009 at 01:41 PM..
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