Hi, I bought the VM extension a while back, and since I have recently implemented the VM search into the site, It takes a really long time to return queries. I thought it was VM originally and spent ages looking into it. But, it's the SEF - when I disable SEF the search works fine.

If the search results are quite low in numbers then it works - slowly. But if what you searched for returns a lot of results then it times out.

Here is the site Welding Equipment.

Do I get free upgrades because I bought the extension, and would an upgrade fix my problem?

Thanks

For now I have put an IF statement in the VM extension so if there's a keyword (someone has searched) then SEF is ignored.

So if you search on the above site, then you will notice all links for that page are non SEF.

Hello,

how long is your search result list (how many results are there displayed at one time)? I do not know why this should be slowing down your site so much, unless it translates a lot of URLs for the result list.

Can you please, send us link to the search page and examples of the search queries that seem to be so slow?
Also, is your caching on or off?
Also please state your JoomSEF and VM extension versions.

If there is something we can fix or improve based on this case, we will do it and you (and all other users) have the upgrade available for free.

The page will display 50 results at a time. But if I search for something which 50 results - it's slow but works. If I search for something which has 400 results or more - it times out. But you only get the pagination. So I don't see why it would make such a difference.

My JoomSEF is an old version 1.3.3 - I am updating it now.

The VM extension is 1.0.1 - where can i update this?

I will let you know what happens with the updated JoomSEF

The VM Extension I have doesn't work with JoomSEF2.2.4