Does this site load slowly and need a new VPS?

https://tools.pingdom.com

It took a couple seconds for me to load. Which is also what the pingdom test came back as.

I tested rackspace and it was a litte slower.

There can be many reasons this site might work slow for some people.

1) It is not cached periodically.
2) Heavy spamming traffic.
3) Insufficient resources.

I think switching to a VPS with better resources will indeed help you to improve the speed. But also consider adding a proper caching process for your website.

Hi MarkBlogs,

Did you ever think of testing it to see why it loads slow?

https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/dweRVp/...umweb.hosting/

Your pages loads slower than 75% of all other websites. Checkout those test results, looks like quite a few things could be done to improve the coding of the website to optimize the page load speed.

It loaded pretty quick for me. One thing that makes it seem a bit slow is that images do not have width/height set with CSS or dynamic content is added while the page loads, this means that while it is loaded content gets pushed around.

Your homepage: 2.82 sec to load for me. Yes it's slow. But it's not terrible.

I don't think the problem is your VPS.

The code of your website is old, outdated.

You should decrease the number of http requests on your homepage and it will solve the problem:

Your homepage has 22 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one.
Your homepage page has 7 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.
Your homepage has 43 external background images. Try combining them with CSS sprites.

Good luck!

I checked in to your website but it isn't loads slowly.I think you don't need to switch to other service providers.

Take a look at Google PageSpeed Insights:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/
and follow those recommendations.

As Sven300 has noted you are loading more assets(js,css,html) than necessary. I see that you are running Wordpress. There are many plugins that can combine and minify these assets fairly easily. One such plugin is W3 Total Cache (https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

Your initial page load response time has some issues (1.1seconds). This is the time it takes for the PHP code to run and fetch the data from the database. Caching helps reduce this time by avoiding running the PHP and fetching from the database on every request. The W3 Total Cache plugin should help in this regard, and will also perform various types of caching for you which should increase performance for your initial page load.

I noticed that all the icons you are using are loaded as separate PNG images. With some work, you should combine all these files into one sprite image. Here is how you do this: https://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/

All of the following (and probably some others) could be combined into one PNG image file:

twittericon.jpg, googleplusicon.jpg, facebookicon.jpg, youtubeicon.jpg, flickricon.jpg, instagramicon.jpg, support_payment.png, vps-hosting.png, reseller-hosting.png, cloud-hosting.png, hosting-security.png, icon-payment.png, icon-webdesign.png, hosting-software.png, icon-domainnames.png, icon-managesite.png, iconseo.png, btnslide.png, topbackg.png, icon-webhosting.png, dedicated-server.png, shared-hosting.png, data-center.png


Also, what does your server stack look like? I noticed you are using Cloudflare, which is good, but prevents me from looking at the headers to see what server you are using. I find that using NGINX with PHP-FPM is generally preferable to an Apache stack.

I think a new VPS account will be fine for your needs, the OP. And I'd advise you to use them from time-tested companies, I mean hostingsource.com or netdedi.com.
They are cheap and reliable in delivering their services and support is online around the clock.

I just visited your website, it loads normally from my side. But in my opinion, there are so many contents and pictures on homepage.

It loaded pretty fast for me. It took around 2 seconds. You can always measure the speed of the site with this pingdom tools.