Does multilanguage makes the website heavier?

[ereallstaff]

Hello Dev Team.

This is a real question. Looking at the code and workflow of joomla + virtuemart I have seen that also in the case of 1 language, the proper translation tables are called. If I have one website only in italian f.e. , it adds the translation table the suffix "it_it" inside the queries.

With this workflow, so having 1 or 4 languages should be indifferent?

THanks

[franzpeter]

If you add some other languages, Virtuemart creates additional tables for the other languages: products, categories, manufacturer a.s.o.. So you receive a few more database tables. I do not think that it makes the website heavier. If a customer selects another language Virtuemart reads the product names, category names a.s.o. from the other language table. So, why should it make the website heavier?

[Milbo]

The multilanguage of joomla slows down the webpages, but vm should have the same speed.

[ereallstaff]

hello everybody and thanks for the reply

Milbo catched it up, joomla for sure add some overweight to multilang , and for sure also other modules if aren't optimized for multilanguage ( f.e. on my modacalcio.it, the gavick menu retrieves every time all the voices from db to refine after with the current lang, quite stupid I think? )

What's my problem: I have 4 lang, but for the moment are used by customers only 2 . I want to keep other 2 also for google placement ( SEO, other customers and every else relarted ), but I don't know if that's worth

Better removing unused language to have a faster website , or the worth is not so considerable?

Thanks

[lindapowers]

hello everybody and thanks for the reply

Milbo catched it up, joomla for sure add some overweight to multilang , and for sure also other modules if aren't optimized for multilanguage ( f.e. on my modacalcio.it, the gavick menu retrieves every time all the voices from db to refine after with the current lang, quite stupid I think? )

What's my problem: I have 4 lang, but for the moment are used by customers only 2 . I want to keep other 2 also for google placement ( SEO, other customers and every else relarted ), but I don't know if that's worth

Better removing unused language to have a faster website , or the worth is not so considerable?

Thanks

We have a website with 4 languages and it works pretty fast. Optimized images, good server and NOT a lot of nasty js everywhere.

Even more if you check our website you will see we do use a lot of images and js even in the frontpage and still works pretty well.

It will work faster with one language only? probably but hardly noticeable if you have a decent host company, resuming, make sure you use a quality host.

[ereallstaff]

THe problem comes with many many products ( 1000 or more? )

if you website is http://www.comenaranjas.com/ , it's too little for a real test, I think