Affiliate Pay SignUp

[yogaworks]

Hi. I have been told the affiliate page signup is very slow and can time out. I think it's because it is on a https page.

Is there a need to have it like that or a way to speed it up as potential affiliates are finding it loading very slowly.

Thanks.

[E-junkie_Chef]

That does not sound right .. can you please post your affiliate sign-up URL?

[yogaworks]

Hi. Yes it is at bottom of this page:



http://www.elegantbank.com/quotesbook.html



The url when you click on affiliate signup is this one:



https://www.e-junkie.com/affiliates/?cl=10839&ev=e8d66e6414



There actually was a thread on warriors forum about the problem and several people said that they had trouble getting affiliates to signup due their affiliate signup page being very slow. You can see that thread here you can see others have these problems too.



http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPICID=192588



I believe if there wasn't https than the affiliate link to signup for people's programs would be much faster and people can get more affiliates. PS I tried it without the s in https and it seemed to convert back to https.. I don't think the affiliate link really needs such high security anyway. I just clicked the affiliate tab in e-junkie and every product I checked has https where it says on bottom- earn 50 percent as an affiliate etc.. it definitely uses https for signups.

[E-junkie_Chef]

HTTP or HTTPS does not affect speed. It will only affect caching of the page which does not affect the first time load anyway. HTTPS is necessary for us as we don't want a malicious user on someone's network to steal their login information.



I tested the link with Opera, FireFox, Safari and IE and it seems to load just fine. Our admin panel load is just 110KB, so even for dial-up connections, it won't take more than 4 seconds.



It could have been that at a certain point, due to some issue with our internet provider the site access was slow maybe.



Does it open slow for you still?

[yogaworks]

It is still slow. I use IE. It took about 12 seconds to start to load at all and then didn't fully apear for like 25 seconds total. As someone wrote in warriorforum thread I referenced, when they tried to sign up jv partners to affiliate page for their product at e-junkie it just wasn't loading for people.



Perhaps it is the images,javascript or flash that slows it down?

[E-junkie_Chef]

I'm sorry but I am just unable to recreate that delay. It could be an issue with the network inbetween somewhere.



I am sure that affiliate program is working fine as there was this product "Zen to do" which was recently made very popular and a quick serach for it on http://www.bloglines.com/ will showed that they had a lot of affiliate sign-ups.



We are however adding 2 more servers to our setup soon and E-junkie will be faster than ever.