Wordpress Load Time and How to Improve It

13 years ago

Things you can do
1) Check if you load any media with big file size.

2) Some plugins slow down wp signiificantly. I've seen that especially with social media button plugins. Some related posts plugins and SEO plugins have a bad name for needing too much resources too.
There's a plugin called PluginHogDetector, that's supposed to find out which plugins slow down your site. But I can't find a link right now.

3) Consider installing a cache plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=cache

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Henry White 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Ralf Skirr

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There's a plugin called PluginHogDetector, that's supposed to find out which plugins slow down your site. But I can't find a link right now.
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Try this page:

WordPress › Support » Are your sites running slow?
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Rok Solid

13 years ago

Just today I read a recommendation to install either W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache to improve WP site performance, so you can give one of those a try

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13 years ago

I have very good experience with W3 Total cache, I'll suggest you to try it

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13 years ago

Did you tried solving the speed issues using the page speed adon available in firebug.

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Elmar

13 years ago

I have installed the W3 Total cache and there slight improvement but still pretty bad. The setting in that plugin are way over my head.

I am starting to suspect that it also might be the shared hosting account. I am using iPage.

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MsWanda

13 years ago

I just did 2 changes that really improved my WP load times:

1) Replaced W3TC with Quick Cache: Have been using W3TC for a long time, but I started reading more and more posts that Quick Cache is more efficient and easier to configure. Actually, even though you can change many settings, the default recommended one is just on/off

W3TC seems to conflict with many plugins and it's hard to trace the problems. W3TC is very good if you're using a barebone WP install, but the more plug-ins you add, the trickier it becomes if you don't have an expertise in that area. Even though I haven't measured it, just by switching to Quick Cache my blog seemed *really* faster.

If you decide to remove W3TC, make sure to:
1) uncheck all caching settings in the plug-in first (until it says the plug-in is not longer active
2) then only deactivate the plug-in
3) then uninstall the plug-in
4) go to the WP-content folder and delete any remaining w3 file or folder (if any are left)

2) I did a change to my htaccess file. I stumbled on some post by an htaccess guru explaing that the default WP settings were actually really inefficient (querying the server multiple times while it is unnecessary)

This is the default WP htaccess code:

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

and I replaced it with

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine on
#
# Unless you have set a different RewriteBase preceding this
# point, you may delete or comment-out the following
# RewriteBase directive:
RewriteBase /
#
# if this request is for "/" or has already been rewritten to WP
RewriteCond $1 ^(index.php)?$ [OR]
# or if request is for image, css, or js file
RewriteCond $1 .(gif|jpg|css|js|ico)$ [NC,OR]
# or if URL resolves to existing file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
# or if URL resolves to existing directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
# then skip the rewrite to WP
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [S=1]
# else rewrite the request to WP
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
#
# END wordpress

it is supposed to reduce redundant server queries.
Again this change give me a little speed boost.

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Ralf Skirr

13 years ago

Originally Posted by MsWanda

I just did 2 changes that really improved my WP load times:

1) Replaced W3TC with Quick Cache: Have been using W3TC for a long time, but I started reading more and more posts that Quick Cache is more efficient and easier to configure. Actually, even though you can change many settings, the default recommended one is just on/off

W3TC seems to conflict with many plugins and it's hard to trace the problems. W3TC is very good if you're using a barebone WP install, but the more plug-ins you add, the trickier it becomes if you don't have an expertise in that area.

I don't know about Quick Cache, but I can confirm that W3TCis problematic. I used it for a short time, and had functional conflicts on my site. Things just stopped working, no matter how many variations of settings I tried. I did not try all of them, probably, but uninstalled the plugin. Many are using it successfully, but for me, it did not work.

I'll check out your recommendation! Thanks.

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MsWanda

13 years ago

Glad it helped

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ElaineBaker

13 years ago

My admin area is really slow loading and it seems there is an issue with the recent upgrade on Wordpress - it's so annoying as it seems to take forever to actually build a site at the moment....

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Jamie Lin

13 years ago

For shared hosting, it is best to use WP-Super Cache because you can't go wrong with the settings. If you are using VPS or dedicated server, then W3 Total Cache is a great solution because it is highly customizable. Messing with W3 Total Cache can get your site slower or even won't load. You don't need those database or minify settings on shared hosting because that is very CPU intensive and should only be used on an isolated environment like a VPS.

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Cataclysm1987

13 years ago

-Reduce the number of plugins you're using

-Upgrade your hosting account

-Use this service:

Home | CloudFlare | The web performance & security company

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James.N

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Cataclysm1987

-Reduce the number of plugins you're using

-Upgrade your hosting account

-Use this service:

Home | CloudFlare | The web performance & security company

We looked at offering a Cloudflare option with our hosting packages but there's a lot of mixed reviews on it. Plenty of people are opposed to it and frankly it seems like its only worth it if your sites are the target of a lot of DDOS attacks.

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Kingfish85

13 years ago

Originally Posted by quadxnet

We looked at offering a Cloudflare option with our hosting packages but there's a lot of mixed reviews on it. Plenty of people are opposed to it and frankly it seems like its only worth it if your sites are the target of a lot of DDOS attacks.

Most of the time when people notice problems after integrating CloudFlare, it's because it's not integrated correctly. Problems with A records and incorrect CNAME records can cause this. Not having access to the advanced DNS editor in cPanel will also cause the DNS records to not be created correctly.

The majority of our customers use it, and so do we on our main site. Haven't had a problem yet.

EDIT: There are some instances where CF has problems, which can in turn cause problems for the sites as well.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by quadxnet

We looked at offering a Cloudflare option with our hosting packages but there's a lot of mixed reviews on it. Plenty of people are opposed to it and frankly it seems like its only worth it if your sites are the target of a lot of DDOS attacks.

More than happy to answer any questions about CloudFlare. We do offer more than just DDoS mitigaton & most sites generally see a 50-60% improvement in performance.

Do issues happen? Yes. But we do our best to fix them quickly & reviews on the internet do not reflect the experience of the many sites that use our service without issue. We also wouldn't have signed on major hosting providers (HostGator, Media Temple) if we were so fraught with issues.

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sandhi

13 years ago

hi Elma,

i have some suggestions for you to speed up your page loads..
you can use W3 Total Cache for make CDN for your website..we are know plugin W3 total cache have a lot of menus, one of them is to make a Self-hosted CDN..you just to make subdomain of your domain..
here is the steps :

make a subdomain for your CDN, exp. yourdomain.com..and your cdn must be cdn.yourdomain.com,
go to CDN menus in W3 total cache at configurations and fill the following below :
FTP hostname : (set default)
FTP username : fill with your Cpanel username
FTP password : your Cpanel password
FTP path : default is /public_html/cdn
Replace site's hostname with : fill with cdn.yourdomain.com
click test FTP server, if OK you can save all settings
if all points above have done, go to General in CDN menu at W3 total cache and click Upload at all options on the Right side
now you have self-hosted cdn, this can make your page loads more faster.

sorry for my english

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Elmar

13 years ago

Originally Posted by sandhi

hi Elma,

i have some suggestions for you to speed up your page loads..
you can use W3 Total Cache for make CDN for your website..we are know plugin W3 total cache have a lot of menus, one of them is to make a Self-hosted CDN..you just to make subdomain of your domain..
here is the steps :

make a subdomain for your CDN, exp. yourdomain.com..and your cdn must be cdn.yourdomain.com,
go to CDN menus in W3 total cache at configurations and fill the following below :
FTP hostname : (set default)
FTP username : fill with your Cpanel username
FTP password : your Cpanel password
FTP path : default is /public_html/cdn
Replace site's hostname with : fill with cdn.yourdomain.com
click test FTP server, if OK you can save all settings
if all points above have done, go to General in CDN menu at W3 total cache and click Upload at all options on the Right side
now you have self-hosted cdn, this can make your page loads more faster.

sorry for my english

hope that help

Thank you sandi,

I will definitely save this solution and use it in the future. I am currently on a shared hosting account and I believe that also has something do do with the page load speed so this solution might not be the best at the moment.

I appreciate your help.

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James B

13 years ago

Just keep in mind, if you are going to use the W3 Total Cache plugin, use it after your done designing your website.

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theebookcavern

13 years ago

Hey Elmar,

Have you tried this free website speed checker from Pingdom?

Pingdom Tools

It shows you how long each element of your page takes to load so you might be able to pinpoint the problem.

As for plugins to speed Wordpress up, I'd recommend three.
- WP Super Cache.
- WP Minify.
- WP Smush.it.

Tom

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i agree with the above , a good cache plugin can do miracles

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Elmar

13 years ago

I removed the W3TC and replaced it with Quick Cache. Shaved off two seconds. Down to 5 seconds load time. Still pretty bad.

I will try minify and smush.it and see what happens.

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Kingfish85

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Elmar

I removed the W3TC and replaced it with Quick Cache. Shaved off two seconds. Down to 5 seconds load time. Still pretty bad.

I will try minify and smush.it and see what happens.

Would you mind posting a link? Or is it one of the links in your sig?

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Elmar

13 years ago

Yes its my blog, its the second link in my sig.

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Kingfish85

13 years ago

Seems to load fine for me...?

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Elmar

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kingfish85

Seems to load fine for me...?

I am going by the loads.in and pingdom service. They indicate the load time anywhere between 5-7 seconds depending on the location.

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Kingfish85 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Elmar

I am going by the loads.in and pingdom service. They indicate the load time anywhere between 5-7 seconds depending on the location.

Pingdom Tools -- TX

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/ouGd...ketingblog.com --NY

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/hqV6...ketingblog.com -- Amsterdam
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bt

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Elmar

I am going by the loads.in and pingdom service. They indicate the load time anywhere between 5-7 seconds depending on the location.

Your blog loads slow for me to Elmar about 5 secs on my end. Have you tried WP Super Cache. I use It and It works really well for me.

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Elmar

13 years ago

Originally Posted by bt

Your blog loads slow for me to Elmar about 5 secs on my end. Have you tried WP Super Cache. I use It and It works really well for me.

I am currently using Quick Cache as some of the earlier posters advised. It has improved the load time slightly over the W3 Total cache but not too much.

I am starting to think more and more that its my shared hosting account.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by Elmar

I am currently using Quick Cache as some of the earlier posters advised. It has improved the load time slightly over the W3 Total cache but not too much.

I am starting to think more and more that its my shared hosting account.

I doubt that It's your shared hosting causing the slow load time. I'm on shared hosting also. My blog was loading really slow months ago until I installed WP Super Cache and figured out one of my plugins was causing alot of the problem also.

I tried all the other cache plugins but the only one that worked for me was WP Super Cache.

Try disabling all of your Installed plugins and then test load your blog to see If that helps. I had one plugin that was slowing down my blogs load time tremendously. After I figured out which one It was it fixed 95% of the problem by unInstalling It.

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Elmar

13 years ago

Originally Posted by bt

I doubt that It's your shared hosting causing the slow load time. I'm on shared hosting also. My blog was loading really slow months ago until I installed WP Super Cache and figured out one of my plugins was causing alot of the problem also.

I tried all the other cache plugins but the only one that worked for me was WP Super Cache.

Try disabling all of your Installed plugins and then test load your blog to see If that helps. I had one plugin that was slowing down my blogs load time tremendously. After I figured out which one It was it fixed 95% of the problem by unInstalling It.

Thanks. I will try this. First turning off all the plugins and if that doesnt do it I will try the Super cache plugin.

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damoncloudflare 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Elmar

Thanks. I will try this. First turning off all the plugins and if that doesnt do it I will try the Super cache plugin.

You could also try testing which WordPress plugins are making your site slow, if any. You can also try testing with something like Webpagetest.org, which will help you identify possible areas of concern on the site.
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ahmiz 13 years ago

You might want to check out how your site fares on Google's page speed tool at https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/

It'll show you exactly what you can do to increase your page speed score.

By the way, W3 Total Cache wins hands down at drastically increasing that score, of all the Wordpress plugins I've personally tried (including WP Super Cache). I found WP Smush.It to be a bit wonky for me, but I suppose can be effective if you have tons of images (my sites don't).

If your page still loads slowly after you've managed to get a score of 90 and above with no "High priority" issues, chances are it's a problem with your hosting provider. I've noticed my sites on shared hosting loads slowly at specific times of the day, and loads almost instantly at other times.
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Kingfish85

13 years ago

Originally Posted by bt

I doubt that It's your shared hosting causing the slow load time. I'm on shared hosting also. My blog was loading really slow months ago until I installed WP Super Cache and figured out one of my plugins was causing alot of the problem also.

I tried all the other cache plugins but the only one that worked for me was WP Super Cache.

Try disabling all of your Installed plugins and then test load your blog to see If that helps. I had one plugin that was slowing down my blogs load time tremendously. After I figured out which one It was it fixed 95% of the problem by unInstalling It.

Trace the route to his site. I guarantee you his hosting is causing the problem. Which is why it would be intermittent for me. I checked a few times last night and got different load times.

You'll see where it goes right through EIG, which is NOTORIOUS for overloading & providing crappy environments. It's either Netfirms or IPage, my guess is on IPage.

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tq

13 years ago

One thing I due that helps a lot is call the images from another domain

I set up a sub domain for images only, also I resample and optimize the images (if the images are online they do not need to be high resolution, if they are for print you will need 300 or 600 dpi). PNG, JPEG images load faster

The server can be one main big problem for the load time.

I use WP Super cache also

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jaiganeshv

13 years ago

Some tips to increase page load speed:

1. Reduce image sizes - free wp plugin WP Smush it does it
2. De activate un used plugins - some plugins load css and js files even when they are not used along with your header
3. Use image lazy loading plugin if your page has many images - instead of loading all images at once, you can load them asynchronously (sites like mashable does this to speed up)

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by Elmar

Any suggestions ?

Try u n s h i t.com to optimize your site.

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Mister Ozzy

13 years ago

This is an interesting thread.

I have a VPS server, a Xeon Quad processor with 4GB RAM memory.

I want to go to a dedicated server, a Intel core i3 type: 4-500 processor also with 4GB RAM memory.

Does anybody know if this will increase the load time on a wordpress blog?

I installed W3 Total Cache by the way.

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ericbryant

13 years ago

A really cool new tool is CloudFlare. Free and paid versions.

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Rick Britton

13 years ago

recommend using

GTmetrix | Website Speed and Performance Optimization

will actually tell you line by line where the errors in code are that are slowing you down and suggest fixes

good luck, I am doing this myself at the moment

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by Rick Britton

recommend using

GTmetrix | Website Speed and Performance Optimization

will actually tell you line by line where the errors in code are that are slowing you down and suggest fixes

good luck, I am doing this myself at the moment

I would just like to throw in that you can also look at Pingdom.com and Webpagetest.org as additional options to help test sites (I use these almost daily testing out customer sites).

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Robert Bleach

13 years ago

I had a slowness issue on one of my sites. Checked my logs and it turned out that some kiddy in a popular gaming form had hotlinked to one of my images for his avatar. This was hammering my site with image requests. Changed the .htaccess to block hotlinking of images and speed improved considerably.

Also, if your host supports the mod_pagespeed module, activating that could speed things up faster than a wordpress cache plugin. Dreamhost lets you turn it on from the panel just by checking a box (it's off by default and labeled "beta" but I never had a problem with it).

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cashp0wer 13 years ago

I'll jump in here and say that CloudFlare is a great product. And they offer free or paid versions.
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13 years ago

The best info I've found is :-

11 Ways to Make Your WordPress Site Faster and Leaner

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smodha

13 years ago

WP Super Cache for the win!

I've never had problems with it and my sites load pretty quick. Tested on Mac, PC and iPhone.

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13 years ago

I'll suggest you to try W3 Total cache

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JerrickYeoh

13 years ago

If W3 Total Cache is not working, i believe you need to check with your hosting or looking for CDN service to speed up your wordpress site.
Try reduce use high space of templates , reduce image, video and flash item on site.

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andersvinther

13 years ago

The combination of Cloudflare, W3 Total Cache and Amazon Cloudfront CDN (setup as a Pull Mirror) is a winning combination for me...

Under 1 sec load time on standard bluehost shared account...

Pingdom Full Page Test and gtmetrix.com are fantastic tools to spot which plugins slow you down...

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by andersvinther

The combination of Cloudflare, W3 Total Cache and Amazon Cloudfront CDN (setup as a Pull Mirror) is a winning combination for me...

Under 1 sec load time on standard bluehost shared account...

Pingdom Full Page Test and gtmetrix.com are fantastic tools to spot which plugins slow you down...

Just a quick note that I would recommend turning minify options on at both W3TC and CloudFlare (choose one or the other). Having two minify options turned on often creates conflicts & issues with sites.

Note: These are the fields you have to worry about for W3TC and CloudFlare.

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JesseN

13 years ago

I would also recommend WP Super Cache. Also note that some themes can also make a Wordpress site to slow down depending on the number of http request. Just do a Google search of ipage wordpress site slow and you'll find a lot of other people complaining about iPage, it has been known that most cheap unlimited hosts provide below par service especially for dynamic sites.

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samsharen

13 years ago

I tried WP Super Cache, it was okay. Super Fast Loading.

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13 years ago

I tried super cache but my website became unavailable, duno why

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msu

13 years ago

Here's another vote for Cloudflare - works great for us. We got it free with our Media Temple account and we're pumping half million page views a month through it without a problem.

As a previous poster said, if you're having problems with Cloudflare check your DNS settings.

Elmar, I think if you use a minify plugin on your blog you'll shave quite a bit from your loading time. The plugin will take out all the whitespace and separate lines in the HTML code of your theme. Make sure you're compressing both your HTML and your stylesheet - I think you're losing a lot of speed with those two.

There are setting for both those in Total Cache, not sure about Quick Cache.

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damoncloudflare 13 years ago

"Here's another vote for Cloudflare - works great for us. We got it free with our Media Temple account and we're pumping half million page views a month through it without a problem."

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"Elmar, I think if you use a minify plugin on your blog you'll shave quite a bit from your loading time. The plugin will take out all the whitespace and separate lines in the HTML code of your theme. Make sure you're compressing both your HTML and your stylesheet - I think you're losing a lot of speed with those two."

Just make sure you don't turn on more than one minify option, including CloudFlare's, if you already have one running (can lead to conflicts/problems for the site).
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13 years ago

i agree with the above , a good cache plugin can do miracles

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msu

12 years ago

Another vote for Total Cache - really works well on all my sites but I'd recommend reading the FAQ page to make sure you're running it with optimal settings.

If you find TC a bit frightening - they are a lot of options - take a look at WP Super Cache. I've used that before and it works well, with very little to configure.

To reduce slow site loading times also try these, one at a time, to see which makes the biggest difference:

Deactivate plugins (one by one, to see if it's just one causing you problems)

Get rid of excess widgets on your sidebar - some of those are really slow loading

Try temporarily switching to the default theme, some custom themes are coded badly.

I have a full list of things to check here - but the main things to look at are plugins and widgets, 90% of the time that's the problem.

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damoncloudflare 12 years ago

"Get rid of excess widgets on your sidebar - some of those are really slow loading"

I personally agree with this. People think throwing a ton of social media widgets on their blog is helpful, when it will generally actually slow things down. I've seen sites have like three different widgets for Facebook when one would do.
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12 years ago

Originally Posted by Elmar

Any suggestions ? Do you know if there are any plugins to speed up the page loads ?

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Hi Elmar, check this thread > http://www.warriorforum.com/website-...5-minutes.html

It requires no plugins and is super simple to implement

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