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slow WP website

by Katarina Vermeer
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Hey guys,

i need some advice for my website.
The main page is loading really slow but the rest of them are i think 'oke'.
Anyone that has experience with this?

ProjectHPL is the website i am talking about.
Is it the interactive template maybe?

Katarina
#slwo #website
  • Profile picture of the author Sven300
    1) Install the free extension YSlow, and test.

    2) What is the weight of the image on your homepage? Is this image compressed?

    3) Often there is a conflict between plugins that causes slowdown.

    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author pierrebastille
    Hey Katarina,

    After analyzing your website with GTMetrix, here are a few recommendations:

    - Optimize your images: you can use the plugin Compress JPEG & PNG images to do it automatically (https://wordpress.org/plugins/tiny-compress-images/)

    - Leverage browser caching and enable Gzip: you can use the plugin Performance Score Booster (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-per...score-booster/)

    - Use a CDN. You can subscribe to CloudFlare -it's free (https://www.cloudflare.com/).

    - Minify CSS and Javascript: you can do it with CloudFlare (in the speed section)

    Hopefully, after performing these optimization tasks your home page will be lighter. It's currently 5.42 Mb which is quite big.

    If you're interested, I wrote a detailed guide on how you can speed up your WordPress site: https://pierrebastille.com/speed-up-wordpress-site/

    Good luck

    Pierre
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  • Profile picture of the author creativeartmarketing
    Originally Posted by Katarina Vermeer View Post

    Hey guys,

    i need some advice for my website.
    The main page is loading really slow but the rest of them are i think 'oke'.
    Anyone that has experience with this?

    ProjectHPL is the website i am talking about.
    Is it the interactive template maybe?

    Katarina
    Hi Katarina,

    I visit your site, Its really loading very slow..
    After analyzing your site through page speed see below link:

    https://developers.google.com/speed/...2F&tab=desktop

    You have to fix all the problems suggested in above links...

    Hope after doing this will increase the page load time.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Katarina Vermeer
    Thanx alot guys. Wit the compression of my website will they change the view of my images on my website?

    And someone told me that every plugin i have will slow my website. Also the plugins you guys suggested?
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    • Profile picture of the author Sven300
      Originally Posted by Katarina Vermeer View Post

      Thanx alot guys. Wit the compression of my website will they change the view of my images on my website?
      Not really.


      Originally Posted by Katarina Vermeer View Post

      And someone told me that every plugin i have will slow my website.
      True. But it's not the real problem. Several websites made with Wordpress are relatively fast. Even if they have many more plugins than you.

      Wordpress plugins are designed to be compatible with the wordpress themes. But they are not designed to be compatible with each other. Often causing software conflicts between plugins.

      This is one reason why I do not really appreciate sites made with CMS like Wordpress. I prefer to code by hand or use a framework like Bootstrap.
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  • Profile picture of the author ZelimirGraf
    A few more things you could do - switch your hosting account to PHP 7 which usually doubles the PHP speed. Also, your theme is loading an incredible amount of static files (JS and CSS), which is causing excessive HTTP requests. Those files need to be concatenated. With the caching mentioned in this thread, you should be set.
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