Re: A question about speed...

Hi all...I'm new here so forgive me if my  first post is actually a quote
from a book...

"You can go back and forth bewteen PHP and HTML as often as you'd like
within a single page.  Just be sure to include all the opening and closing
PHP tags.  The web server needs to do additional processing when
interpreting PHP, so its actually more efficient for the server to serve
static HTML rather than process PHP. " (Essential PHP for Web Professionals)

Maybe your page would load quicker if you used static HTML instead?
Tam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dandello" <librarian(at)shadolibrary.org>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: A question about speed...


> Ask your ISP. Slow loading issues like that are common on dial-ups and can
> indicate the web network itself is getting bogged down.
>
> Also, when your page is bogged like that, how fast does the ISP's
home-page load?
> This can help determine whether you're looking at problems with their
server
> bringing up the PHP pages or whether the network is bogged.
> Also, if they've added servers, have they also increased the number of
phone-lines
> coming in and their connections to the hub? There may also be
configuration issues
> with their new server - it's serving the PHP pages, but is it trying to do
> something else first?
>
> Dandello
>
>
> Berk/Devlin wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys:
> >
> > I use quite a bit of PHP on my Web site.  This is great in terms of the
> > power it gives me, but I get the feeling that there are quite a few
> > disadvantages to it as well.  ...
> >
> > I've decided to submit my question to THIS email list rather than to the
> > HWG-languages one because I don't think my issue has to do with my use
of
> > the PHP language itself.  Please correct me if you think I'm wrong about
this.
> >
> > Anyway, the problem I am concerned with is display speed.  My pages
paint
> > themselves quickly enough, once they start to paint.
> >
> > However, there are many times of the day when the browser says, "Waiting
to
> > connect." or "Waiting for reply." for 10 or more seconds before the page
> > even begins to download.
> >
> > And yet, at other times of the day, it takes, like 3 seconds or so for
the
> > page to start downloading.
> >
> > Take, for example, this very uncomplicated page:
> > http://armadillosoft.com/index.php3
> > Or, this one, which is more
> > complicated.  http://www.armadillosoft.com/dillo/index.php3
> >
> > This problem seemed to get worse when my ISP moved me from one of their
> > servers to another.  Do you think it's just that the new server is
slower
> > than the previous one?
> >
> > Do you have suggestions about how I can find out what might have caused
> > this or what (buzzwords??? like, "OPTIMIZED for PHP???!!!") to look for
if
> > I am investigating a new ISP?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Emily
> >
> >
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> > ~                            Emily Berk
~
> > On the web at www.armadillosoft.com *** Armadillo Associates, Inc.
~
> > ~             Project management, developer relations and
~
> > extremely-technical technical documentation that developers find
useful.~
> >
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