PHP Forum

**jasgor9** · 09-19-2009, 10:01 PM

All of the pages on my website are running really slow. I include 3 external pages in every page of my site. Could that be the cause of this slow page load time?

**lizciz** · 09-20-2009, 04:54 AM

Yes, it could. Try to remove them and see if theres any change in the loading time.

**chrishirst** · 09-20-2009, 05:53 AM

NO IT COULDN'T!

Includes do NOT affect the "loading speed" to any significant value.

**Jagmeet** · 09-20-2009, 06:58 AM

huu!
chk how much queries ur running at on web page load
and also chk ur web hosting resources like:
server load
server status

ok try

**Angeix** · 09-20-2009, 07:39 AM

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**lizciz** · 09-20-2009, 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

NO IT COULDN'T!

Includes do NOT affect the "loading speed" to any significant value.

Why could they not? If your script requires some pages from another server, your loading speed must depend on how fast the other servers can serve the pages you requested, no?

**wayfarer07** · 09-20-2009, 10:50 AM

I think this just depends on what the OP meant by "external pages". This could just be a figure of speech that meant "pages of information not contained in the originally requested page."

**zomex** · 09-20-2009, 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasgor9

All of the pages on my website are running really slow. I include 3 external pages in every page of my site. Could that be the cause of this slow page load time?

As many have pointed out that depends whether your talking about PHP includes or external files called for in your <head> section.

If your talking about PHP includes then no but if you are called up 3 scrips/css files then yes it could be.

I recently merged 3 stylesheets into 1 and it's certainly done more good than harm.

**seoconsult** · 09-20-2009, 05:02 PM

How u include external pages...with iframe code ?

**wayfarer07** · 09-20-2009, 05:19 PM

PHP can be used to include pages on external servers if the allow_url_include directive is turned on in php.ini configuration file on that server. It is turned off by default, however.

**Lashtal** · 09-21-2009, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seoconsult

How u include external pages...with iframe code ?

in this example, I think we're talking about including it in PHP.

Like so...

Code:

<?php

include("filename.php");

?>

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I think what Chrishirst was talking about was that it doesn't utilize a lot of the server's resources (considering you have a decent server) to utilize the

include();

built-in function for PHP, however you may find it worthy of noting, that the three pages the oringinal poster is including could be code heavy and utilize a lot of the server's resources, or just be badly coded in the first place.

And I guess we'd have to take a look at those 3 files that are being included to see what it is they're doing to make a more adequate "yes" or "no" determination here; also, to take a look at the server itself and see whether you're on the cheapest hosting plan known to man, or a better server.