3 Replies Latest reply: May 6, 2013 3:28 PM by Zak Williamson (Adobe) RSS

    Publishing my site takes over 24hrs, why?

    3tkct Community Member
    3tkct May 4, 2013 4:58 PM

      Publishing my site updates had been taking 10~12 hrs with 30~40 pages.  Now that I've update my menus every page needs to be loaded - it's taking over 24 hrs and I've had to stop the load process as I'm afraid it's about to burn out my laptop.  This seems ridiculously long in this day and age (I have a cable modem not dial up!).

       

      The command goes through the "exporting page ..." sequence without too much delay (about 59% of the "publish" sequence).  Then it goes into a holding pattern (this was a few hours initially, then 9~12 hrs with about half the site, and now it's well over 24hrs and counting).

       

      Prior to the last update the site can be seen at towersgolde.businesscatalyst.com; I understand that the 3 level menu is part of the delay (cutting and pasting each time take a minute or two), but it shouldn't be this long to publish.

       

      I'm losing a lot of time/money and it's frustrating to deal with.

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        • 1. Re: Publishing my site takes over 24hrs, why?
          Zak Williamson (Adobe) Employee Hosts
          Zak Williamson (Adobe) May 4, 2013 11:06 PM (in response to 3tkct)

          Please go to the Help menu in Muse and Join the Private Beta Program.

           

          There are two steps Muse takes when updating your site. First Muse generates the files for anything that's changed and then second it actually performs the upload to the server.

           

          I expect your file is encountering two different performance bugs in Muse 4.x during the export step. One is triggered by having multiple text frames with multiple states on one or more master pages. This bug manifests as Muse taking an inordinate amount of time during the "Finalizing HTML Export" step. The other is a result of having an "All Pages" menu on every page in a site with a lot of pages (>50). This second bug is generally far less severe than the first, but can result in each page taking a minute or more, which on a 100+ page size obviously adds up.

           

          I exported your site (90 pages and 900+ images) to a local folder in 40 minutes using Beta 4 of Muse 5.0, which is available to members of the Private Beta Program. (Note that 40 minutes does not include the time for the upload step, but that part of the process is solely dependent on connection speed. I expect the exceptionally slow performance you were seeing was during the export step.)

           

          On a separate note. Your site appears to contain a significant number of JPEG images that have been saved with very very high quality settings. If an image is not resized, cropped or otherwise altered in Muse then the original file is passed through during export/upload/publish. For many of your images this is resulting in files that are 5 times larger than they need to be, or should be, for use on a website (and thus pages that will load 5 times slower than they could).  For example the 900x500 songdot.jpg is currently exporting as 691k. The same image saved using Save for Web from Photoshop with the default quality setting is 152k. Your site is currently generating 160+Mb of image data. Even for a site with 90 pages, that's a lot of image data. Resaving your images with lower quality settings would improve page load performance for your site visitors.

          • 2. Re: Publishing my site takes over 24hrs, why?
            3tkct Community Member
            3tkct May 6, 2013 8:34 AM (in response to Zak Williamson (Adobe))

            Thank you.  I will join the Beta, an hour or two is well within reason.  We will see if there is any need/desire to keep better images up.

             

            The first bug is a tad difficult to understand, but the second makes sense to me.

             

            One quick question:  should I continue to work with the file in the publicly released version and test publishing in the Beta?  I want to ensure that the beta version doesn't cause other errors (it being beta).

            • 3. Re: Publishing my site takes over 24hrs, why?
              Zak Williamson (Adobe) Employee Hosts
              Zak Williamson (Adobe) May 6, 2013 3:28 PM (in response to 3tkct)

              That would be a reasonable approach (to continue to work in the 4.1 release version and only open the site in the 5.0 Beta to Export/Upload/Publish), though Beta 4 is proving to be quite solid. Note that opening in the new version will be slow, because file format is converted to be compatible with the foundation for the new features and other changes in Muse 5.0. Normally after opening once you'd save and then subsequent opens would be back to normal speed. Since you'll be going back to 4.1 to make changes, each time you take the file forward to 5.0 Beta the open will again be slow. Sorry for the inconvenience.