WordPress Slow Page Load Time Problems & Solutions

Wow, over 1 minute to load one of the back pages (posts). I didn't see anything on the home page, but when I clicked to view an article it hung up bad while loading:

Caching plugins and optimize your images a bit more should bring the speed down.....

WebPagetest Test Result - Dulles : bosmol.com - 07/13/11 06:38:54

Was going to include test results from one of your posts but it timed out

The posts really take huge time to load..

My guess is that there are some problems with theme. Try installing another theme.

Also plugin that may help a bit: wordpress gzip compression.

Who's your host? Tortoise Hosting?

If you have W3-Total-Cache running you may want to check the settings. None of your Thesis stylesheets are cached, and that maybe because you're still on v 1.7, which still used the appended date stamps on each css file. W3TC could'nt cope with that, but version 1.8.1 fixed that problem. It would be well worth updating.

Nothing much else seems to be cached either.

The settings for W3TC are affected by the server your site is running on, so you should ask your hosting provider what settings they recommend. As a starter, though, this is how I set up my version of W3TC:

W3-Total-Cache: How to Set it Up | WealthyDragon

Apart from that, your social_fixed div with those social media buttons on the left of your content div may well be the culprit - try moving it to the right of your container div so it loads after the rest of the page. (You already have 4 more social media buttons on the right - you surely don't need them twice?).

For me the pageload hung while trying to load this JS file: http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js. Again, move whatever that script refers to over to the right, or in a sidebar near the bottom.

This article goes through ways to position stuff on your page so it appears to load faster:

Make Site Pages Load More Quickly | WealthyDragon

That may help a bit,

Cheers,

Martin.

That is your problem. Dump it and you'll see a huge improvement.

As a matter of fact, your page is social media overkill. You have at least 4 different places on your page with social media buttons plus those badges at the bottom of your side bar. All of that is killing your load time.

OH Snap!

Not much you can do about it since you're waiting on FB. Twitter is also taking forever to load.

I'd remove everything you can and see how that effects your load time. After that, experiment until you find a combination with an acceptable load time. Maybe test out some similar social plugins and see if they are any faster.

You can update Thesis for free - just log in to your DIYThemes account and download the latest version.

If you want to do custom coding you should do it in the Thesis custom functions file, because that way your customisations will be preserved through both Thesis and WordPress upgrades.

Cheers,

Martin.

-Deactivate all your plugins

-Re-activate your plugins a few a time

-Keep re-activating a few plugins at a time and checking page load speed each time.Delete that slow-working plugin.

The best thing really is to reduce the installed pluggins and other heavy program

Something that I didn't think of yesterday,

When your using a lot of javascript, like your social plugins, it's always best to put that code in your footer, not your header. This way your site loads first and then the javascript loads.

Does anyone know why my website is not showing up properly when using Internet Explorer.

My blog is Bosmol – Social Media & Web 2.0 Internet Marketing News

I appreciate any help!!

The blog looks fine on the homepage but when you view example posts it gets cut off.

Example Post) Pope Benedict XVI First Tweet on Twitter

Are you using shared hosting? I've always had problems with page load speed no matter what I tried using with shared hosting. It's definitely worth the money and time to upgrade your server to a trusted VPS or Dedicated server(Depending on your budget and site value).

You're asking me to give away ancient Chinese secrets!

Your sites load time isn't too bad now.

I noticed your comments are getting a lot of love from spammers.

Start using CloudFlare, its great!

Akismet is your friend. Try it and those spam comments will go away forever.

Any idea on how to fix this? I am in desperate need of help so any advice is greatly appreciated. I am even wiling to hire someone to help

Ok now I am also experiencing the same thing. At first I thought it was my browser or connection.

Use Thesis, I got tired of using all these pro blogs with insane design when it loads slow. I went with the basic Thesis, and I've gotten a lot more traffic with it. Another thing is it loads so fast for me.