How Do I Improve Site Loading Speed?

There are several things that can slow down page load times on WordPress: plugins (particularly those that have to access other sites to do their stuff), themes, your server, for starters.

Start with really critically reviewing your plugins, particularly any that have to access other sites (such as Share This, or Related Blogs). Get rid of any that aren't bringing you a quantifiable benefit.

If you're using a free theme try switching to the WordPress default (TwentyTen) to see if page loads speed up.

Make sure you optimise images that you use in your posts.

Minimise the use of JavaScript.

Activate Gzip - explained more fully here:

Gzip Compression: Speeding Up Site Load Times | WealthyDragon

Add a caching plugin - I use W3-Total-Cache and I'm very pleased with it.

You can also position items on your page to make your site appear to load more quickly - more details here:

Make Site Load More Quickly | WealthyDragon

Cheers,

Martin.

also try moving the java-script snippets on the footer and I also agree with the cache plug-in. I'm currently using hyper-cache and it works great!

try checking and compare your site using the default theme and your current using

iwebtool.com/speed_test

I have just written a whole blog post on this titled Wordpress Plugin Produces Lightining Fast Website Speed.

The plugin is called WP Super Cache and its free.

Important! Make sure you understand how to configure the settings first before activating

Used this wordpress plugin W3 Total Cache.

Compress the larger images and videos to smaller sizes, avoid css scripting and javascript, also css tiles will slow down the website loading time, I have seen most of the website/blog has flash images, in the beginning of the website but when we go through this kind of websites, the flash will load after some period of time, some plugin's installed to the blog will down the loading time.

Google page speed is the tool you want.
Page Speed Home
It will tell you exactly why your site is loading slowly, and has lots of advice on how to speed things up.
There's also yahoo yslow, but that isn't so comprehensive.

Hi,
first of all check your image sizes and reduce
weightiness of images like some image may have 1mb with
high quality and you can make it as 270kb and use minified js and
minified css this will reduce loading time

if you have any flash videos or big images on home page, remove them and try

You say you're already using w3. If you are, and still have problems, you have it configured incorrectly.
Optimize your images, combine css, js, minify and cache. You should end up in the high 90's using page speed.

I have written an entire blog post on lightning fast site speed this week.

There's several wordpress plugins that when installed, save your pages and posts so they load super fast. No need to access your core framework as they become cached. You only need one plugin, configured with the correct settings, to achieve fast page loading speed

Don't put more video files on your home page. this will cause slow site loading or you can use Wordpress plugins or themes.

Hello...

If you have any large animated or image content on your landing page then remove it or re-size it this would definitely helpful to increase your website loading speed..

Great information sharing...Its really helpful....

best way for web speed search on Google

This is a great thread. This kind of stuff only happens here on WF.

The best way is to install a simple Caching plugin that gives you lightning fast page load speeds. I've written 2 blogs posts about the 2 most popular and effective caching plugins for wordpress. Included is screen shots, performance and installation/configuration settings.
These plugins have been downloaded over 2 million times

Google just released a newer more user friendly version of page speed.
Page Speed Online

Today most of it is over my head code language.

Try use gtmetrix.com and you will have list of todos to make your site faster.

7 Ways to Improve Your Site Loading Speed



1. Cache your pages

2. Compress HTML, CSS and JavaScript

3. Host your blog on a good and reliable webhost

4. Optimize WordPress Images

5. Avoid too many plug-ins

6. Optimize website database

7. Use content delivery network (CDN)

A little FireFox plugin called "YSlow" should help you figure it out.

Wow! great topic thanks everybody

Just one question:

Does installing plugins on wordpress make our website slower?

Check out W3 Cache

Do you need to create with css. learn css and create with css.
this is the first thing for increase site loading speed

Do you have flash videos and some larger images on the home page of your website. If yes than please remove them because it takes too much time to upload.

You can consolidate WordPress plugins. Many WordPress plugins include .css, .js and other files that you can move into single files if you're comfortable.

You can also consider hosting your (large) media files off-site, e.g. at Amazon S3, or the like.

Please forget the plugins (install and uninstall) and move to a VPS with a reputable VPS provider.

Great, I found a wordpress plugin that tells you which plugins make your site slower More information about this plugin:

wpmu.org/how-to-find-out-which-plugins-are-slowing-down-your-wordpress-site

Cheers!

Check out P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler).

hxxp://searchwordpressplugins.com/plugin/p3-profiler/

This plugin creates a performance report for your site.

Could be your web host too. If they've oversold their bandwidth (common) or they have you on a shared server alongside other bandwidth-draining sites, your performance can suffer!
Matt

Java is a great tool for adding interactivity to a website. However, Java scripts are also very bulky and causes websites to load slowly. Are using Java Scripts, if you are then kindly remove and optimize your images. That will also helps you a lot. I was suffering from same problem with my site now it resolved.

Most of the tips are the ones that you probably know. So, you can use the list as a checklist (which it normally is in my "customer notes sheet" : ) ).

Here are the tips:
1. Get A Fast & Less-Loaded Web Server

This is a must. Whatever you do to make your website faster, if it is served slow, there's nothing to do.

Make sure that the server your website is hosted has low ping values & it is not over-loaded. Specially if you've a database and/or using dynamic files (like asp, asp.net, php, ruby..) server over-load can kill the performance.

If you've a simple website with few visitors then shared hosting is ok. For a website getting popular, think of a VPS with guaranteed RAM & CPU usage. If the website is already popular, a dedicated server will be the best performing one.
2. Know When To Use GIF, JPG & PNG Files.

Playing with the quality of images will dramatically lower the sizes of them while they will still be looking good.

GIF is suitable for images with few colors like logos, text & line art. When saving a GIF file, make sure you use a small color pallette (learn more).

JPG is good for images with lots of colors & details like photographs. Decrease the quality of a JPG image before saving. It will still look good for a web image (learn more).

PNG, a format specially for websites, has great quality – both transparent & non-transparent – is specially functional when you're in need of quality transparent images. Don't forget that IE6 has problems in displaying them (learn more).
3. Use XHTML – No Tables

This is easy to tell but may be harder to implement for anyone that has few experience with XHTML.

The thing is, tables are rendered slower than DIVs by browsers. You can do more with less code & no need to say it is much better to be compatible with any browser (including mobile browsers), in means of SEO, etc..

Update: There may be cases when using tables are much more logical like "tabular data". You may have to code a lot for creating the look of a simple 5 columned table. Don't do that & use tables when needed.

What is tried to be mentioned here is, use XHTML rather than tables in general. But don't try to draw images with XHTML.

Don't use big images and more script in your site. try to use color than images.

80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turn reduces the number of HTTP requests required to render the page.

hey.. i got help form this topic discussion and solve my problem previously i was facing like this one.thanks

Use less resolution image.use colors for it

its better to check in Google Developers. if you find out some error page, you have to remove the problematic page.

One more option is while cut photos in photoshop you have give the resolution upto 72.

just install a cache plugin and it should do the trick for you.

Don't think anyone has mentioned this yet but cloudflare.com is an unbelievable service. It adds an extra layer of security to your Wordpress blog and acts as a CDN speeding up page load times. It also does a bunch of other clever stuff just make sure you install their Wordpress plugin to go with it. The best part: Free to use! Implemented on my site and jumped from 80/100 to 84/100 on Google's speed test.

Try to remove white spaces from your css..

as a dummy coder...
I'd like to tell you that if your blog contain some javascript, that might be a problem...
try to open the header.php file then cut all javascript code into footer.php
for example <script type="text/javascript" rel="path-to-file/file.js></script>

FYI, all major browser read html code from the top to the bottom page... and logically if your browser read the javascript first, that'll make your site loading speed slow.

A slow loading website definitely can impact the sites rank. So I would check again the plugins that you have on it. If you need 20 then so be it, but be aware that each plugin has their own code and that when someone visits your site the codes within the plugins get sent to the visiting browser. With that many plugins there is a lot of code being transferred.

With reference to images, checking the metadata associated with them may be numerous. If there is a lot of metadata keywords associated with the images then that also could add to the slow loading of your site.

1 - not use flash files
2 - compress image file size
3 - not use jquery scripts
4 - use wordpress light weight themes

Do not using the flash animation and big images.

1. Minimize the number of HTTP requests
2. Optimize and correctly display images
3. Minify HTML, CSS, and Javascript
4. Use a Content Delivery Network
5. Gzip and compress components
6. Choose <link> over @import
7. Put stylesheets at the top
8. Put scripts at the bottom
9. Utilize browser caching
10. Use CSS Sprites

install a cache plugin in your site, and remove the unnecessary query..

use external css files.

You can compress images to make it load faster

1. Minimize the number of HTTP requests
2. Optimize and correctly display images
3. Minify HTML, CSS, and Javascript
4. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
5. Gzip and compress components
6. Choose <link> over @import
7. Put stylesheets at the top
8. Put scripts at the bottom
9. Utilize browser caching
10. Use CSS Sprites

Good topic.. I also got my answer.. Thanks.

A good caching system can help a lot

1. Minimize the number of HTTP requests
2. Optimize and correctly display images
3. Gzip and compress components
4. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
5. Minify HTML, CSS, and Javascript
6. Choose <link> over @import
7. Put stylesheets at the top
8. Put scripts at the bottom
9. Use CSS Sprites
10. Utilize browser caching