Site loading speed is affecting after redirection

After having mod rewrite rule, site started loading at slower rate

[jkappu]

Hello Everybody,

We are working on one of our client site who uses ShopScript for both front end and back end designing. After working on the site, we were in need of redirecting all the dynamic URL to static URL (Search Engine Friendly).

We have used mod rewrite method in .htaccess and it is working but the rate at which Site loads is very slow, we are not sure what would be the problem.

Our dynamic url was: [mysite.com...] and the redirected url is: [mysite.com...]

The redirection is working fine, but the rate at which pages loads is much slower than the pages when it was a dynamic url. Can anyone guide me?

Regards
JK Appu

[jdMorgan]

This is expected, since a redirect forces the client (browser) to request each object (page, image, script) from your server twice.

It sounds like you are still linking to dynamic URLs on your pages, and then trying to use a redirect to 'correct' those URLs. This is not the correct approach to implementing SE-friendly URLs.

There are three steps to doing it correctly. See this thread [webmasterworld.com] for details. Do not focus on the details of the example code in that thread, focus on the described three-step method.

Jim