Dicento running really slow and category pages are off alignment.

Hi Dave,

You can check out our demo site of this JM Dicento theme. Its load speed is quite good, right?

Please try to switch to default theme (instead of Dicento theme) and check the speed again.

Hostings plays a part in speed, pls make sure that you’re using a good host.

One more thing you can do to ensure better performance is turn caching on (System -> Cache Management).

With 2nd question, this is so weird, pls let me know how you install this template, do you use quickstart or not? PM me admin and FTP account, I shall check this for you.

Hi Saguaros,

Thanks for your response. Yes I like the demo and that’s why I purchased the theme but I have never been able to get it even close to that speed…but hope too.

I have one cpanel account on its own VPS with a good host so I dont believe that is the issue, I have tried caching also. This is a fresh install of the latest version of Dicento on a freshly upgrade Magento 1.7. set up as multi store. The main site is as good as always (jm Purity template, 3 years old site) but this template seems to be the issue.

Check out the page speed here (Time to First Byte: 29481 ms) http://www.webpagetest.org/result/121023_5K_3SZ/

I add all the relevant details on my first message. I appreciate your support Saguaros, thank you.

Hi curtise again,

Please try to use gzip compression, optimize images… like this guides: http://www.gxjansen.com/101-ways-to-…merce-website/
http://www.blastedthing.com/magento/…agento-faster/

Also, check store of your site and remove stores which you never use.

Regards.

Hi Saguaros, I appreciate your guidance on optimizing Magento for speed but I am still wondering why the category pages are off alignment. If you could answer this for I would be greateful.

I have sent through my ftp details on my first inquiry.

kind regards, Dave

Dear Dave,

How can I access your backend? please pm me admin account, I cannot acceess with above credentials.

Hi Saguaros, I have pm’d you last week with the access details…any updates? I really need to have this fixed ASAP.

Kind regards, Dave Curtis

Hi Dave,

Seems that you make customization on this page, right? Please open file: /skin/frontend/default/jm_dicento/css/theme.css, line 2730:

Code:

.products-grid .actions {
    bottom: 10px;
    position: absolute;     <<<try to remove this line
}

Hi Saguaros, No I haven’t made any custom changes to category or product pages. I followed your suggestion above (found it on line 2645) but it didn’t make any changes to the layout issue? Thanks for trying to help but I will re-post this question to see if anyone else has a solution as I cant let this drag on and the current title of this thread was the speed issue and is now misleading. If you know the fix I would of course be glad to hear.