What is wrong My site has gone superslow

Can anyone check it
https://www.kjagen.com
and tell if it`s slow (it hangs when you scroll down)
and the fropdown meny is slow

This is only in IE

anyone?

It seems to load quickly enough but it looks broken, like the whole page is not loading. It might be related to this: “ Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 356 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.

The error was: utf8 “\xA9” does not map to Unicode “. Then again, that error might be a quirk of the validation service. I’m not sure.

There’s something seriously wrong in one of your template files:

https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kjagen.com%2F

</div id="centersidebar"> is wrong for a start.

</div id=”centersidebar”>

why is that wrong, its in my sidebar template

<div id=”centersidebar”>
<!– sett in bilder her–>
</div id=”centersidebar”>

but how come this happens suddenly. How can I fix it, its not style.css related? Or text widget related. Thats was the last thing I did, a text widget

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kjagen.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&group=0&verbose=1&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.654

This is the new answer after removing a faulty caracter in the end.php

I don`t understand it

This document was successfully checked as XHTML 1.1!

I get this message now, I have removed everthing from the sidebars.

Still the site is slow.

I think I`ll give up on wordpress. All I get is error
Any ideas what to do? Is something with the upgrade to do?

And how come it works perfect in Opera???

Your page is loaded within 1-2 seconds every time for me (i checked yesterday when you first posted to).

If you’re not on a fast connection yourself, then you might consider lightening the load on your pages by removing some plugins, remove one, test page, remove another, test page… isolate the problem yourself rather then waiting for a forum reply from someone who can only make a best guess about the problem.

What makes you think any other CMS isn’t going to crawl once you start cramming in plugins (otherwise known as modules in some CMS systems).

Track the problem, remove the problem. Process of elimination, anyone using WordPress can do it.

OK

But it`s not the load time!! That is just fine

But scroll down in IE. Isn`t it slow then? And the dropdown menues?
Something is suddenly wrong.

Every other page I visit is fine, and yes I have high speed Fiber connection

For f…. sake. It was the background

background:#5E5F65 url(img/b.jpg) repeat-x;

I removed one letter in the bg name (bg) and removed the background.
Then it was fine. But now I got no background. How could this suddenly be a problem?????

kjagen,

Ids, classes, and other elements go in the start tag not in the closing tag. That’s why this </div id="centersidebar"> is wrong. It should be </div>, if you haven’t already worked that out for yourself.

It seems to work fine in IE8 on Vista and mostly fine in Chrome, IE6 and IE7 on XP, and mostly fine on IE and Safari on OS X. It is not ‘perfect’ in Opera on my machine, but is mostly ok. In all of these ‘mostly ok’ cases, I can’t see the baby (v_black11.jpg) but only get a black image. The rest looks alright.

It is seriously broken in Firefox on Linux, XP, Vista, and OS X.

As far as your background image, I’m not sure why this suddenly became a problem, since I haven’t really noticed the problem you are describing and it looks like (maybe) the other people in the thread haven’t either. But the image is huge for what you are doing with it. It looks like a solid color to me so you could get away with a 1px by 1px image and repeat in both directions, but why not just set the background color to the color you want and not load an image at all?

Like t3los_ suggested, I wouldn’t be too quick to blame this on WP. You are loading 9 javascript files, 5 stylesheets, and 35 images– some of which are broken, by the way. And you aren’t using any kind of compression. Head over to websiteoptimization.com and take a look. You aren’t really building this for speed, if speed is your primary concern. Maybe you need to load this stuff to get the site you want. That’s fine but it does eat up bandwidth.

It is also possible that you are getting some conflicts between some of those javascript files. And it possible that if your browser is old enough its javascript may not be compatible with the javascript you are using on the site. Your site triggers serious JS errors on a very old IE on OS X on one of my boxes. That isn’t a flaw in your site but in my very old copy of IE. You might be running into something similar though. It would mean that the Javascript is hanging and slowing things down on your computer but not necessarily on all computers. Turn on Javascript warnings in your browser and you’ll find out quickly if that’s the case.

Final point, after the page loads scrolling depends 100% on how fast your computer can process things and redraw the screen. The same with the drop downs. After the page loads the speed of those drop downs depends entirely on how fast your computer can process the Javascript (pretty sure you have no AJAX in the drop downs). Maybe that is why you see a problem and I don’t but I have to say, even on my slowest machine the scrolling and the drop downs work quickly enough (though formatting makes them nearly unusable– see the ‘seriously broken’ notes above).

That’s all the help I have to give. I hope it does some good.

Thanks for the extensive answer.

I`m now at the work pc with IE and XP, and
it works fine here.

At home it`s Viste. So the problem must be there. Vista and IE and backgrounds is trouble.

apljdi, it`s not one colour, it\s got different patterns.
When I change to a single color bg, it`s fine.

How come this suddenly is a problem is a mistery.
Also why the site is broken only in Firefox.

35 images– some of which are broken, by the way-
broken? I see it says it suppused to be a alt content, I cant see whats wrong with them really

Wow, I had to download that background image, open it in Gimp (Open Source software similar to Photoshop), and blow it up to about 1600% before I noticed any pattern.

Why is it broken in Firefox? Not sure, exactly. All browsers render differently. IE notoriously renders elements incorrectly. If you are designing in IE, you may actually be getting the look you want by doing it wrong. But your stylesheet doesn’t validate too badly, which is good. Getting a page to display across browsers and OSes is a constant headache for web-developers.

Take a look at the website optimization link. Type in your URL and let it load. You’ll notice that your CSS is trying to load 8 images that can’t be found. If you need the images put them back. If not, remove the code that is trying to load them and save the server the effort.