Is there any way I can work out how to speed up accessing and loading up the intranet? The computer it is hosted on is connected to the switches the same way as the others. It runs via XAMPP.

You need to identify the bottleneck.

It's unlikely to be bandwidth on a LAN, so the obvious first check is to watch the CPU usage. If that's high, you either have to optimise the site or get a faster server. If it's running on a shared server, it may be another process slowing it down.

How do I identify where it is? I guess I could use task manager and have a look at cpu load but the computer generally just sits there doing nothing the majority of the time. Occasionally it is used for powerpoint presentations but otherwise it does nothing else.

We have two servers. Not sure if I remember to work out which one it is connected to.

The reason for bringing this up is that I am going to design and create a new intranet. 99% of the time, it is used to access referral forms. Very occasionally, it is used for other things eg information packs. The other info is there so we can show the PCT we have the appropriate guidelines etc available to all staff.

If I can streamline the content and design, it may make it quicker to load/navigate but I don't want to put tonnes of info in if nobody uses it, or if the problem lies elsewhere.

Right, I've used logmein which won't help accurately. CPU load is 3-4% at idle and rises to 44% if I click on internet explorer (intranet is set as homepage). If I click on a document within, it rises to 57%.

Is that the CPU load on your machine or on the server when you're accessing the intranet from your machine?

On the intranet machine, not the server machine and not on my home machine.

can you ping the server ( machine hosting intranet ) what are the results?

Pinged the intranet machine from my work machine. Having said that, I did notice it was a bit quicker to load - other computers are either not in use, or switched off which I imagine would make a difference. Need to repeat this when it's busy.

please remove your IP addresses ..........

That suggests to me that its not a network issue, unless somebody wants to correct me

can you take a normal web page and stick it on the server and see how fast that is delivered. - Trying to see if its the specific pages are the problem.

Sorry, thought I had pasted the edited version of the results.

As I said, will try again when it's running at full capacity eg Monday to see if there's any slow down.
What do you mean by sticking a normal webpage on?

I'd try just a minimal webpage, such as the following:



That way you know the server will spend no time generating the page.

I went to load up internet explorer (which has the intranet as the homepage) and it took around 26 seconds to produce.

I created the above page and it took three seconds from double-clicking to displaying.

can you pm the code from the home page ( view source and copy into into a txt file would be fine ) - that's bloody ridiculous.

Do you have a plug in like yslow you can use to check the various page elements etc?

On task manager, which processes have used the most time? Can you see one go up when you load a slow page? Do view - select columns - CPU time if it's not there already.

Sent but as reminded in PM, it was created via Joomla.

No. I can try it out provided it's free. Will have to wait until next week though.



These are the top processes:

mcshield.exe
logmein.exe
services.exe
xampp-control.exe
apache.exe
igfxsrvc.exe
igfxpers.exe
shtat.exe
iexplore.exe
ctfmon.exe

The others stay static and logmein is only up there because I'm using it to access the computer.

Again, tried today and it took 40 secs to create the homepage. Is it because I'm using Joomla and it tries to put together the homepage each time?