Just Installed Jom Comment Pro For Joomla

CMS - Content Management Systems

Friday, 23 May 2008 00:00

I must say the installation was easy, you just select the file and upload it in the admin section of Joomla. It has a lot of parameters, like spam alert, you can enable different fields, it uses rel=000000"nofollow" tag for posted urls, it even uses akismet spam protection from Wordpress.

For now I don't have any complaints, I want to test it for few weeks and then I can give the actual review. But usually there are bugs that are not detected in the first few hours after installation.

So I need to test Jom Comment before writing review. For now it looks cool.

2 things that I have spotted already is the link read more with anchor text read more, keyword read more is useless for ma rankings so I dont know why it is not under rel="nofollow"tag that prevents spiders from following the link.

Stupid mistake.

The other thing is that apparently my pages are opening much slower. There is a big difference in speed after Jom Comment installation.

Wow, that will probably be the reason to delete it from my Joomla.

UPDATE after 3 hours

The site is really slow, it is not my imagination. It takes 17 seconds to load the home page. 17 freaking seconds!!!!!

And it takes 15 seconds on average to load a single article. I have seen many comments on Jomcomment forum about how slow the site becomes after Jomcomment pro. Users blaim Ajax, they say Ajax is the cause for pages loading slow.

Another problem is that wysiwyg editor times out when loading image and it shows empty page. This component is a horror and people actually pay for it. I mean it has a lof of functions like Wordpress Akismet and other cool stuff, but it makes my site unbearably slow.

So I can't edit the article from front end. I have to switch to administrator to edit freaking article and add the following picture.

Here is the image how much script code Jomcomment inserts in your code

jom comment

Here is the link to Jom Comment and be sure to read some of the comments especially from the person nemanjas who said

So... I'm looking for another solution, as my hosting company warned it will turn off my entire site if it continue to overload server.

Jom Comment support was not helping, which is expected, since it looks that this component has major design flaw.

UPDATE after 1 hour later

I uninstalled Jom Coment Pro. Now my home page opens up in 3 seconds, single article also in3 seconds. Before it took 15 seconds to open my home page. Jom Comment Pro is definitely not the comments component I will ever use.