Speed of page download fluctuates strangely -ASP problem?

Speed of page download fluctuates strangely

[kristin3574]

My site has strange page download speed problem. Using the same network, it takes a long time to download compared to pages from other sites with heavier content. The speed of download fluctates too. Sometimes its faster, sometimes much slower.

Even the rollover effect of the top navigator bar scripted using Javascript fluctuates in response time strangely.

Does anyone has a clue to what is happening?

My site uses ASP scripting on SSL with many small sized graphics.

[txbakers]

Hi and welcome to the Webmaster World Forums.

All things being equal, I would have to guess that it's just a case of network traffic. What else is on that server?

If someone is downloading a movie on the same server at the same time, that will suck up bandwidth, leaving your downloads little.

[kristin3574]

Thank you for your welcome and replying so quickly. This is a great forum!

Almost every page takes a long time to download despite decreasing the graphic size.

At first, we suspected that it is due to high web traffic problem, but, increasing the bandwidth from server side and client side did not help.

In your experience, it is not likely to be due to asp scripting, MYSQL or IIS configuration problem?

[txbakers]

are your graphics pre-sized? If you are trying to download huge graphics, but specify the size in the HTML, you are still downloading the huge graphic.

It could be a database issue, but it doesn't sound like it at this point.

[eWhisper]

I'm not a coder, so this is a guess based off of the past several days of being annoyed at a lot of .asp pages.

Do you use session IDs? All of the very slow loading .asp pages I was looking at (and sometimes had to click multiple times as the page would get 'stuck') used some sort or session id.

Not sure if these sites have a conflict, but if this sounds like a common problem, I'd like to know what it is so some of them can fix their issues.

[kristin3574]

Yes, this site uses session id and sometimes I do have to click several times for reload. But, at this point I have no ideal what could be happening to session id.

Txbreaker, do you mean that the huge graphics will be reload everytime despite being cached if you specify the size in html?

[delboy1978uk]

strangely enough, i am practicing a new dynamic site usind access dreamwearver and iis

i think that iis is behind this although i'm not sure why

my site sometimes goes FLASH!

sometimes it.....just.....crawls....and...then....eventually.....bang! there it is

and some other times it acts normally again
odd

[Herath]

We have a JSP site that uses session ID throughout. We experince the same problem, specially when one page does a big form submit to another.

Could it be related to Proxy?

[delboy1978uk]

Been looking into it. My site actually seems to take ages for the firsp aspx file that i load

after that they seem to be a lot quicker

[kristin3574]

Recently, I observed that another of our intranet site that uses session log but not asp fluctuating strangely too. We had three computers on demo. The main instructor computer took more than 5 minutes to load a page that requires database update. The other two student computers took only 30 seconds to load the same page.