[ic] IC Website loading slow

Kevin Walsh interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Tue Apr 30 19:39:01 2002


> 
> I have uploaded a static website to interchange and changed the menu from 
> <a href="item.html"   to [area item] and I've noticed that once I had the 
> pages changed and loaded on to my server running interchange the pages load 
> about 25% slower than my static website running on the same server but not in 
> Interchange.  anyone know how I could speed this up or what might cause this? 
>  Is it normal for an Interchange environment to run slower than a normal 
> static site?
> 
I would expect Interchange-served pages to be slower to process
than static Apache-served pages.

Apache will receive the request for a page and, instead of just
displaying the page, will send the request to Interchange to
process.  This will be one delay.

Once Interchange receives the request, it has to either create
a new session, or reload existing session data.  Once that is
done, the page has to be scanned for Interchange tags, such as
your [area] tags.  These tags have to be interpolated to produce
the output HTML which will be returned to Apache.  Apache will
then return the output HTML to the user's web client.

You cannot expect all of that to happen without some sort of
delay.  The same would be true of whatever technology you used
to process non-static pages.

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