Converting

Thanks for all of the info and the critique

For the loading issue, could something like WP Super Cache (or something like that) work? At first, the sliders were on the first page but I moved them to single pages so that the first (home) page would not suffer .

I had not put in the "Super Cache" because I had concerns that it would do something "interesting" to the site.

I would like to address the performance issues tho.

Used plug-ins & such to do the site (did not write any JScript code this time around). Which page had the most going on with it? Maybe I can turn off the plugin and find a different way to do the same thing ..

You are speaking of the comments in the code? I used plugins and was making some changes LOL - mostly at the PHP level, some at HTML and 0% at the Javascript level.

Thanks again for all of the input. The idea was just to do some sites temporarily - main focus is the development of software / applications that run in the cloud.

For the website part, goal was to communicate to the owner that the work can be done. Would not use the themes I used tho - maybe Genesis framework (since that seems to get tons of Thumbs Up on the forum).

If you use something like W3 Total Cache ( my preferred Wordpress plugin ) it does CSS minification as well as jscript minification.

If you are using custom CSS I suggest using a plugin such as: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/. It greatly reduces your code lines by removing all the changes and placing it in a single location and a single "call"

Yes the reduction of "lines" hence the comment about your site notations does help with speed. Also the placement of where things load helps with this as well. - try moving your Google Analytics code down into a footer location instead of up in the head. this allows the visible page to load first and faster before your page runs off to report there is a visitor on your site.


There are tons of these little tricks to increase speed. you might want to also look at cloudflare.