This has been frustrating me for a while now. I started developing a site for a friend using ajax to load content, but whenever the image galleries are loaded it takes soooo long. The annoying thing is that it wasn’t like that when i tested it on my own server.
The test site is here: http://www.europeanbob.co.uk/phil/index.html
And the actual site is here: http://www.philmarsdenphotography.co.uk
The test is hosted on dreamhost and the actual one on krystal if that makes any difference?
You are doing some weird things, but Stack Overflow is not a debugging service. What I’ve seen from a cursory look at the network pane, when you click on
Gallery > People, there are two simultaneous requests to/inc/people.php— one takes 4-4.5s and the other 8-9s, thus my guess is one gets locked waiting on the other to finish, which might be either due to session or database. These scripts return a bit under 4k, so the long delay cannot be explained by network latency — it is something you’re doing server-side. Good luck.