• joe90
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Topic: Home page takes a very long time to load

I've installed zencart 1.3.6 + UKZC-1.3.6.base.

I had severe problems with the login to Admin freezing, which appears to have been resolved by following the advice here - http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=81

Now, I have a similar problem if I try and use the UK templates and go in to the home page of the web site.

If I set the shop up using 'Classic Contemporary Green', the demo runs reasonably well, but if I use 'UK Zen Cart Classic v136 Std' instead it takes forever for the home page to load.

However, if I have navigated somewhere within the shop before I switch the template to 'UK Zen Cart Classic v136 Std', the shop continues to navigate reasonably well until I try and go to the home page when response grinds to a halt.

Any suggestions?

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Re: Home page takes a very long time to load

It's the first time I've come across this.
Are all of your images optimized?
Are you calling info from outside of your domain?

What's the url?

Thanks
Kev

P.S.  There is nothing in the UK template that would cause this.

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  • joe90
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Re: Home page takes a very long time to load

The url is http://tachyon.me.uk/zc/

All that is loaded is the sample shop that comes with the Zen Cart installation.

It's currently using the UK templates, so if you go in on the above url it may fail to load.

You could try using something like http://tachyon.me.uk/zc/index.php?main_ … p;cPath=28 to get in and navigate around before trying the home link.

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Re: Home page takes a very long time to load

There must be something on the home page that browsers don't like.  I don't see the sample shop but I do see furniture etc.

Try changing the main page content etc.

Kev

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  • joe90
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Re: Home page takes a very long time to load

I've had a look on the main page and removing the following line allows the home page to display:

<?php include("http://www.mutualadvantage.co.uk/zen-cart/UKZC135a1-form.php");?>

Any ideas why this should cause problems?

I deactivated the sample shop categories and added some of my own products so I could learn about setting attributes and options.

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Re: Home page takes a very long time to load

It could be because your browser does not like drawing content from another domain (ie mine smile )

That piece of code would be somethign that you remove anyway.

Glad you fixed it.

Kev

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