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Web experts - can you help me speed up my blog?

by Rezbi
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I've got a blog which is loading too slowly.

I've disabled all the unnecessary plugins but it's still not getting any faster.

Any ideas, anyone?

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  • Profile picture of the author BinaryQwest
    Try optimizing images in the themes. If you use images in your post you need to optimize them too. That will help you pick up some speed if you have large images. First measure the speed with something like: WEBSITE SPEED TEST, MEASURE SERVER SPEED, WEB SITE OPTIMIZATION, SPEED CHECK
    then make the changes and see if it helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rezbi
      Originally Posted by BinaryQwest View Post

      Try optimizing images in the themes. If you use images in your post you need to optimize them too. That will help you pick up some speed if you have large images. First measure the speed with something like: WEBSITE SPEED TEST, MEASURE SERVER SPEED, WEB SITE OPTIMIZATION, SPEED CHECK
      then make the changes and see if it helps.
      Yup.

      According to that site my blog is slow.

      Now I just need to find out how to speed it up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jamie Charles
    I just checkout your site, pretty much instant loading for me...

    But , what comes to mind:

    The front page is fairly large?

    The page might be waiting for the ustream link to load?
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Meaney
    Loads OK for me, but these might help you
    WordPress › WP Super Cache « WordPress Plugins

    or

    WordPress › DB Cache Reloaded « WordPress Plugins
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  • Profile picture of the author magiclouie
    I have been having this kind of issue also.

    I am doing my own research as well to address it.

    I did contact also my hosting provider and they told me that they will act on it and keep me posted!
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  • Profile picture of the author weblink29
    Having hosted multiple websites on the same hosting company I've found that when one of my sites slows down they all do. IE: It's the web host that's the culprit many times or another website on my ip may start getting a ton of traffic and that slows my website down. This becomes an issue when you use shared hosting.

    If you have a dedicated ip or a VPS that wouldn't be an issue unless your host is having slow speed issues with their backbone.
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    • Profile picture of the author magiclouie
      Originally Posted by weblink29 View Post

      Having hosted multiple websites on the same hosting company I've found that when one of my sites slows down they all do. IE: It's the web host that's the culprit many times or another website on my ip may start getting a ton of traffic and that slows my website down. This becomes an issue when you use shared hosting.

      If you have a dedicated ip or a VPS that wouldn't be an issue unless your host is having slow speed issues with their backbone.
      I have noticed this as well.

      You are spot-on that, mate!
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