Firebug onload time very high

Question

I am currently investigating why my site takes so long to load. The Firebug net panel tells me this:

7.74s (onload: 16.02s)

What might be causing this huge gap? What exactly is the browser doing after all resources are loaded until it fires the onload event?

Thanks.

Answer 1

It would be difficult to say the cause without a site URL. But you can do the following things at your end.

You can install the following Firefox addons

YSlow

Page Speed addon (check it with Google it is a product from Google itself)

This addons will give you fairly good idea about what causes your issue.

Also have a look the Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site article from Yahoo! that specifies several points to improve the performance of the website.

Hope this helps.

JP