Hello,
I am in the process of creating a website for my wife's clothing embroidery business. I am close to pushing it to "production" on the Web. The site is already sitting on the Web, but users are re- directed to an "Under Construction" page when they access my URL.
One issue that concerns me is page load speed. When I try accessing my site at work (within my company's firewall), almost all of my pages take 2-3 minutes to load. One of the pages contains many images, but all of the others have one or two images on the page. Almost all of my pages connect to a database (SQL Server 2005), but do basic queries to retrieve data for dropdowns, strings for image names, etc.
The reason I think this may be firewall-related is because I have had several friends and acquaintances access the site (providing them direct links to specific pages within my site) from their homes and/or work locations and all of the pages will return in five (5) seconds or less.
What, if anything, could be restricting my ability to access my website's pages from work in a timely manner? Why am I not experiencing this "phenomenon" with any other sites?
I am hosting this website at home on a machine running Windows XP Pro using IIS.
Thanks in advance for your assistance!
Kevin G.