OK I have Prosper202 installed on a standalone domain, and started running traffic through a landing page via POF.
I have uploaded this landing page and associated file ie css, images ect to a subdirectory in the same domain that I'm using to track Prosper202...."www.mytrackingdomain.com/pof/"
Will this slow down the loading of my landing pages, and prosper202 PHP redirects significantly.
The reason I ask is because it's currently taking at least 5 second for the affiliate offer to load once I click on a link on the landing page. This affiliate offer is loaded through the standard Prosper202 PHP redirect.
I am running this traffic through a VPS with Beyond Hosting, and the volume is pretty tiny at the moment.
Do you think this would affect the times it takes to load my landing pages / to execute affiliate re-directs?
Thanks
Hmm. I can't see any obvious reason that would slow you down. What are your landing page loading speeds like?
My landing page load speeds are pretty fast, literally a second. I think I was getting paranoid because I was getting a lot of clicks on my landing page but not a lot of clicks were registering in my affiliate account.
I think this is probably because the landing page was pretty poor....now a work in progress to improve the CTR of the landing page.
Thanks for your help Caurmen.
Oliver
Wow, haven't seen you around in a while gillies! Where you been?
Yea just to confirm it's not going to make a difference, the effect static files have on a server is minimal.
5 seconds is way to long to go from lp>offer, or do you mean it takes 5secs to fully load the offerlp with images etc?
Agreed - 5 seconds is too long. Try running your referer URL through the page speed tools at Pingdom.com (under "tools") - it'll show you if your referer is slow or if it's the offer.
Hey there snipe,
Yeah I know, I had a long break of not really getting involved in the forum, no where near enough. I tried a few projects outside of this forum, ie Trada was the main one, but couldn't get much traction. I came to the conclusion that are tons of successful people in this forum that I can learn from (your guys responses are an example) , it'd be much better for me to do that as a pose to trying to reinvent new wheels outside of here.
I'm doing a follow along on POF at the moment here which I'm learning loads from.
Also snipe, I see you're based in the UK. Out of interest whereabouts?
Also caurmen thanks for tip with Pingdom. In checked the referrer URL, and I figured out why it was taking so long (3.61 seconds according to Pingdom)....I'm based in the UK (the offer is for people in the U.S), so it's running through some of geo scripts, and selecting other offers, which all ads to the loading time I imagine.
Thanks again guys for your responses.
No problem!
If you can, I'd split-test that offer across other networks. 3.61 seconds is too slow, IMO - some stats I've seen say that up to 40% of web users will abandon a page that takes more than 3 sec to load.
Wow,
That's not good. That would be stinkily doo doo if 40% of my clicks were going to waste. Thanks for the info,
I'll try and find other networks running the offer on one of the aggregators, and see if there is a significant difference.
Ollie