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Faster Load Speed?

by ginabrass
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Hi Warriors,

I need to get my load time faster for my website and I'm not sure what else I should do.

I currently bounce between 1.8sec and 4.2sec load time (per pingdom.com).

It's a WordPress site running the WPZoom "Venture" theme.
1. I've installed the plug-in WP Super Cache and I'm caching my pages.
2. I've installed the plug-in Autoptimize and have squished all exteral js files into one file and all CSS files into one file.
3. I've pared down the CSS file to take out a bunch of junk that I'm not using in the template.
4. I've compressed images
5. I've cut out all fluff I can find.

I have a javascript controlled image slide show on the top of my page? If I got rid of it, would that speed up my page? I'm also not using a CDN. Would that help boost my speed? What about defered loading if .js or .css?

What else should I do to speed up my load time?

THANKS all!

PS - since the site is in development, it's passwords protected right now. Sorry!
#faster #load #speed
  • Profile picture of the author Weblin
    It will be great if you could share the password protected url for analysis with password in pm to me. It seems you have already done a great job on application side. I will recommend you to try W3TC (For Page & Browser Caching) + Autoptimize for js and css files combination. Defering the combined scripts will mostly fail and create compatibility issues on your site.

    Please tell me from which Server location you are testing on Pingdom FPT and where is your website hosted. Yes, the slideshow might be taking the loading time. A CDN will be helpful if you have visitors from multiple countries.

    What is your optimization on server end? It is a shared hosting or VPS/dedicated server? If it is VPS, then implement setup the following setup: Nginx + fastcgi_cache setup and you will have insanely good server response time.
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  • Profile picture of the author emptee
    Originally Posted by ginabrass View Post

    Hi Warriors,

    I need to get my load time faster for my website and I'm not sure what else I should do.

    I currently bounce between 1.8sec and 4.2sec load time (per pingdom.com).

    It's a WordPress site running the WPZoom "Venture" theme.
    1. I've installed the plug-in WP Super Cache and I'm caching my pages.
    2. I've installed the plug-in Autoptimize and have squished all exteral js files into one file and all CSS files into one file.
    3. I've pared down the CSS file to take out a bunch of junk that I'm not using in the template.
    4. I've compressed images
    5. I've cut out all fluff I can find.

    I have a javascript controlled image slide show on the top of my page? If I got rid of it, would that speed up my page? I'm also not using a CDN. Would that help boost my speed? What about defered loading if .js or .css?

    What else should I do to speed up my load time?

    THANKS all!

    PS - since the site is in development, it's passwords protected right now. Sorry!
    Hey mate,

    The first place I'd be looking is at the hosting.

    1.8 - 4.2 is a very large range for a good reliable service. Assuming you don't have some external JS/CSS/video/etc throwing a spanner in the works anyway..

    You haven't mentioned page size, number of css, js, images, etc.. this is all pretty important for determining what is causing it to be slow.

    Post those numbers back here and you might be able to take a more targetted approach, rather than (possibly) trying to optimize something that doesn't really need it

    Cheers,
    Michael
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