ISSUE SUMMARY:

Page loading and rendering is extremely slow on a fresh install. No settings have been changed and running on default Joomla protostar template. While the page is rendering it seems to blocking any input too. This is totally unacceptable?

STEPS TO REPLICATE:

1 Setup a clean Joomla 3.6.4 install
2 Install latest version of JomSocial 4.2.5
3 Go to front-end and login

RESULT

- Page takes ages to complete (over 25 seconds)
- It takes even longer before the "post your status" box shows up.

EXPECTED RESULT

- A properly working extension. With no data in it or any changes made I would expect pages to load in 1 second on average.

BROWSER

- Tested on latest version of Chrome, Firefox and Safari on Mac OS X Yosemite. Same results everywhere.

PHP version 7.0.13
Apache 2.4.16

PS: I attached an animated gif to show you what is happening, but it seems it has been resized so doesn't work anymore :) The original file is here: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13980612/slow%20page%20loading.gif

Hi Steven,

Please you upload it to your server and then provide me the backend access..

Also, have you checked the system requirment here documentation.jomsocial.com/wiki/System_Requirements

thank you

Hi Dimas,

Thanks for your quick response. I will set up a staging server later today so you can access it.

Regarding system requirements, my development box does not have 1024MB of RAM allocated to PHP obviously, but how can this be a problem if the system has *no messages* and *no users* at all? Same for the other requirements, how can setting max_execution_time to 5 minutes be a good idea? Should I expect page loads to take up to 5 minutes?

I tried the demo site again and after logging in, the average page load time is 7 seconds. Is this really how it's supposed to be?

Best regards,
Steven

Hi Dimas,

I rolled out the site to a staging server and that is running excellent. However my development boxes are very slow still, and impractical to work with. I rebuild a new Vagrant box using the exact same MySQL + PHP + Nginx configuration as the staging server, and the Vagrant box is slow. Would you have any idea what could cause this? Both machines have the same configuration and memory.

Thanks again for your help.

Best regards,
Steven

I'm sorry, I tried again from scratch and my development box is now running as good as the staging server. I have no explanation for this at all.

I noticed there are external files being loaded, such as cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js . Could you tell me what that file is for? The only thing I can come up with that caused the site to be slow locally is that it was maybe having issues loading external files.

I'm sorry for the trouble, and thank you for the quick response.