I'm up to 160 pages for my website and it's a retail store but when I open Site spinner it takes a big 2 1/2 minutes to open, is this normal?

No, it shouldn't take that long -- something like 10 seconds is much more reasonable. (On a reasonable computer of course!) I remember a bug fix for a problem in this area, so the first step is to make sure you have the latest version of SiteSpinner -- 2.70f.

You can cross-check with the tutorials project -- a known good project of about 50 pages. For me that project takes about one second to load. If your SS installation is OK, I would expect a comparable time for you.

Assuming all that doesn't change anything, you are left with some problem in your project. Typically slow loading is caused by large images perhaps in multiple layers. Pages like that can make SS very busy, and so slow. If you have some obvious pages like that then those are the ones to work on first.

If you don't have anything obvious, then I suggest a divide-and-conquer approach on a copy of your project -- delete pages until you hit something that makes a difference.

Having found the problem pages, the usual trick is to reduce the dimensions of your images -- rather than use huge images directly from a digital camera and rely on SS to resize them, instead make them a reduced size to start with.

If you have multiple layers, consider reducing the number of layers, by combining overlapping images.

Accordingly to your reply, what did you mean by multiple layers??

Hey Bruceee
Could my problem be that my images i put in my project is thumbnail size and i made them to pop up full size image when clicked on, could that be it what do you think?

Hi Bruceee

It's Marcel and i copied the project and deleted page by page and nothing worked better. So i'm kinda woried, what should i do??????

If you were down to one page and it still went slowly, then start deleting objects from that page. It may be that whatever the problem is, it is common to all pages.

By multiple layers, I mean images or objects overlapping each other. E.g., a background image, with objects on top of that, and still more objects on top of those. A little layering is quite acceptable, but if you have lots, that might be causing the problem.

Thumbnails with popups shouldn't cause a problem unless maybe your large images are much bigger than full screen size.

Can you post a link to your site? -- we may see something by just looking at that.

Hi Bruceee
Yep it's Mars again, I was thinking that i deleted all my pages now shouldn't that make the project load faster?? I uploaded as a trail site and here's the link to it and tell me what you can see. http://trialsites.ihostvm.com/...lsite254058/website/ . The Only other thing I'm thinking could be my logo because i inserted an image but it overlapsbig time on top of webpage and over little bit on Explo section on top left...

Hey Brucee

It's Mars again, listen I'm down to deleting everything to my index page and even the index page is left blank and removed my background page properties keywords and it still takes so long to load. The index page is blank......
Something weird here...do I have to restart the project??

Your pages (the ones I've seen) load quite quickly for me....certainly within an acceptable time.

Some pages (index included) seem to be rather lacking in content though .... there's nothing on display, but perhaps you haven't got around to that yet?

Just wondering whether your PC is 'clean' and you carry out all necessary housekeeping on a regular basis? It loads OK for me, but your PC may have a problem perhaps?

BTW, I won't be ordering any of your products, but I can well imagine that it's a lucrative market for you, LOL!

mccifa

If you read the post correctly, Mars is not having problems with the pages loading in a browser, but the problem is loading the project itself in SS.

Whoops! Sorry, Terry ... I stand corrected, young sir! I don't always read things properly .... as I read much too fast.

(And I'm also pretty peeved that you didn't offer to buy me a pint for us winning the Ashes, ROFLMHO! Or offer your congratulations to our wonderful Pommie team, LOL!) [Any chance to have a dig at my Aussie friends, ha ha!] Nah! Luv ya ta bits!!!

mccifa

Hey postyr
Ya your right, i'm having hard time to load the project from ss.

One thing I forgot to say: after your deletions (page or object), do an Edit > Clean Components. That will remove all trace of the deleted objects.

That may be the reason your now "blank" project is taking so long to load. A normal blank or near blank project should of course load instantly.

Did you try loading the tutorial project to see how fast it loads?

I tried to look at your trialsite, but nothing happens. I thought these sites lasted 24 hours, but if it's only 12, I have been too slow

Update:
Your trialsite is working for me now. I don't see any of the image or layer problems I thought there might be.

However I notice you have punctuation in some of your page names (eg "peek-a-b."). This is something to be avoided -- stick with letters and numbers, and perhaps underscores '_'.

I don't if this is the cause of your present problem, but you never know....

Ok good news Bruceee
Your last option of going into my project and going into edit and delete unused objects did the job 100%, now i could say that my project takes now about 8 to 10 secondes to load, thanks a hole lot Bruceee, have a good day, sincelely Marcel.