I have been using Sitely (Sparkle) for a long time and I really enjoy working with it. At the moment I am traveling and had to reactivate my older MacBook Air. Unfortunately, I am now experiencing a problem when exporting my website.
When I export the edited website — whether to the hard drive or directly to the server — the process takes an extremely long time. The biggest delay seems to happen while the PNG images are being generated. On my Mac mini (M1) the same export usually only takes a few minutes, but on the MacBook Air (2019, Intel) it now takes several hours.
I have already tried a number of things to solve the problem, but so far nothing has helped. For clarity, here is what I have tested:
• Reinstalled and tested different macOS versions
• Completely reset the MacBook and set up the system from scratch
• Exported both locally to the hard drive and directly to the server
• Repeated the export several times with the same project
Despite all these attempts, the export on the Intel MacBook Air remains extremely slow.
Is there anything else I could try or any known solution for this issue? I would be very grateful for any advice.
Do you optimize your images before using them on Sitely? Once I finish designing, I replace all the images across my projects with optimized version of images. I use Caesium (a free mac app image optimizer) and I have seen big improvement while publishing.
If you export to disk then upload using FTP like Cyberduck, Transmit etc then try to upload using Sitely ‘publish ‘ it will churn and churn. You have to decide which way you want to upload and stay with it. I learned this through having the same issue.
When I first started with sparkle I uploaded using export to disk,.as the site file grew to 3.6GB (hiking site heavy with images I still used Transmit .
Then I built some new sites less image heavy and used the sitely ‘Publish’ method. I liked the way it worked and streamlined the update process. It is quick and easy
Fast forward to me adding to the hiking site and I tried to use ‘Publish’ after lettisite files on gng publish run overnight it still didn’t put the files up after some frustration doing an export to disk , I trashed the folder that contained ALL The exported data and created a new folder and pointed site lay to the new folder and chose it as the target for ‘export to disk’ .
I then used Transmit to upload the website the first time through it took a bit of time but I got it all placed via FTP.
I can’t remember if I deleted all the Site files from the server. Anyway after that I made a change and exported to files again to test upload speed and it was relatively quick as Transmit did a sync and only uploaded the new stuff.
is it the same site on both, with the same settings?
Perhaps there’s something about the compression algorithms we use that Intel Macs have a hard time with. Admittedly we don’t test as much on Intel these days, as we have phased out or Intel Macs.
We’ve been working on publishing performance for the upcoming update, so perhaps you can send us your project (swisstransfer.com to feedback@sitely.app) and we can look into it.