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Wordpress website speed test

by vryannn
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Hey guys,

I am trying to speed up my wordpress website and need your help!

So I ran a speed test with tools.pingdom.com and it said I have browser caching issue. It gave me a list of files that is problematic (mostly images).

What can I do to fix this? I've already reduce down my image sizes to about 25kb each image.

See image attached.

#speed #website #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author alexsteave
    you can use pre cache plugins
    so user get a cache version of your site no need to download from the main server every time :
    ---W3 Total Cache (this one i use in my website)
    ---jsDelivr WordPress CDN Plugin
    ---GTmetrix for WordPress
    there is more but those i know
    have a good day freind
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  • Profile picture of the author markhimeb
    Can you please tell me the loading time, the size and the total requests of your page?
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    • Profile picture of the author vryannn
      Originally Posted by markhimeb View Post

      Can you please tell me the loading time, the size and the total requests of your page?
      page size: 1.5 MB
      load time: 4.84 sec
      requests: 35
      performance grade: B 87%

      I installed the W3 Total Cache plugin but not sure how to get it to work. Do I have to buy a CDN in order to set it up in this plugin?
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      • Profile picture of the author markhimeb
        A CDN would work, but first, make some search on how to set up W3 Total Cache or any other caching plugin you may use. For the requests you get, your loading time is too bad, but again if I don't see the site, I can't tell you exact things on what you can do. I need more info on the theme you use, the plugins you have installed, and some more that I can only get if I see your site --moreover, if I could enter your Dashboard.

        PS. Do not pay attention to any other statistic than your loading time. Work till you reduce it somewhere around 2 seconds (+- 0.5 sec). This is the average time that a user waits till a site loads. Don't lose your time on repeated checks through Pingdom and Google Insights. Just focus on your loading time.
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      • Profile picture of the author Daniel Lezcano
        Originally Posted by vryannn View Post

        page size: 1.5 MB
        load time: 4.84 sec
        requests: 35
        performance grade: B 87%

        I installed the W3 Total Cache plugin but not sure how to get it to work. Do I have to buy a CDN in order to set it up in this plugin?
        I may have missed it but if you post your website url it will help the community better help as they can then go and preform tests their selves.

        If your page weight is only 1.5MB and its only 35 requests going on - you must have some issues with certain requests bogging you way down. With those #'s you should be faster than 4.84 seconds.

        But I cant be sure unless I analyze the site, and for that I need a url.

        Cloudflare $20 a month plan will solve caching, image optimization, and minification of code all in one stop ... its a good service in my experience. If you use plug-ins especially. My experience is that most plug-ins even the ones that are supposed to help with speed either break your site or decrease the speed ... lol

        So a CDN like Cloudflare is a great solution because you are not adding more plug-ins therefore increasing the back-end weight of your site.

        It really does depend on many factors. Here's another example. The site I am currently building ... the home page is 4MB and the requests are 43, it loads in 2.5 seconds "images arent even optimized yet". Once I optimize it and through it on Cloudflare, its going to drop to about 1.25 seconds ... So you definitely have something going on in your requests I am guessing ... 404 errors, long wait/receive time coming from a broken or crappy plug-in request?? Who knows ... have to analyze it.
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  • Profile picture of the author AdvanceSolution
    use W3 Total cache, wp smush, plugin it will compress your website images
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  • Profile picture of the author dijani
    You can also use themes that will reduce size of images automatically to fit theme in stead of using plugin and there are many themes that will automatically reduce size of images.
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  • Profile picture of the author Claire Anderson
    Website speed not only impact seo but it also increase the users bounce rate. Google give more weight to the websites with fast loading speed. If you want to improve the speed of your WordPress website, then you can check the following tips:
    1. Split your website comments into pages.
    2. Use HTML and Java-script compressors
    3. Choose a good web host for your website
    4. Optimize the images: too many images slow down the website speed
    5. Use a cache plugin:The speed of your website decreases when the number of users visiting your website increases. To fix this issue, use cache plugins.
    6. Optimize the database tables: The database also needs to be optimized to increase the speed.
    7. Remove inactive plugins from your WordPress website.
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  • Profile picture of the author expertcliping
    hi,
    you have wpengine.com to check up site.
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  • Profile picture of the author vryannn
    I found its all those plugins that slowed down my website, even those plugins that were meant to make it faster slowed it down.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Lezcano
      Originally Posted by vryannn View Post

      I found its all those plugins that slowed down my website, even those plugins that were meant to make it faster slowed it down.
      LOL ... that's pretty much on point.
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  • Profile picture of the author akifna
    In many tools
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  • Profile picture of the author vryannn
    I deleted a bunch of plugins, optimized the images, use WP fastest cache instead of W3 Total Cache, added Remove query strings from static resources plugin. Now I got an A on pingdom.
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