Website speed

Rosie, you can either optimize your graphics, optimize the code, or put your site on a faster server.

Graphics are pretty easy is you have access to software that can compress the images. Don't over compress as you'll lose quality.

Yes its taking a bit more than average time. I've seen that you have used a seperate images for each icon. If you know CSS (as you mentioned on your website) then combine all small images in one big sprite so called 'CSS Sprite' and use background-position rule.

This will also reduce the page load time. Each image used on web page is require 1 http request thus reducing the images infact reducing the http request (from client to server) and result will be in a faster page loading.

Hi,
In the code of your website i saw many links for .css and .js file. Each such link means a request to the server, a wait for response, then processes the next code.
So, to many requests to server. The page would load faster if you have a single .css file, and one or two external .js .

Try to compress the High Quality images in a minimal range.

Just merge as many files as possible. Merge all CSS and Js in one js or css file if possible and use sprites for the images.
You can also try moving your resources on a different domain or sub domain.

Server speed seems to be slow too, a slow speed of 135 ms on one ping, and an average of 66.52 ms between the five pings. I pinged google also, as a rough comparison, and it averaged 43.84 ms. So you are running about 35% slower than google. I pinged one of my sites and was a bit above google's with 46.32 ms.

A quick count and I ended at 25 external calls.
Fastest speed would be 0.075 seconds just to request the files, add transmission time for the files.
The slowest ping from the server would make it 3.375 seconds, plus transmission time.

This is just for the css and js as mentioned about. Add to the above numbers calls to the database, graphics, etc... Remember that database calls are doubled, visitor calls site server and site server calls database server. Not including processing time for said call to look up the info before sending it to the site server, then to the visitors browser.

Speed will also be determined by the number of hops that are made for all those calls, your site is hosted on HostGator, so a person in Texas will have fewer hops than a person in New York or Alaska, so they would be slower yet. For the test I pinged from DNSTools.com, so you can compare my results with your own from the same location.

Note that CloudFlare is in beta and may not work as desired at this time.

I hate to break it to you, and badmouth HostGator, but the majority of the loading problem is your host.

The initial loading of the site is "slightly" slower, but the rest of your pages seem to load even slower than that. It can be a combo of un-optimized images, poor database performance & scripts.

If you're looking for speed, move to a host that at least uses LiteSpeed.

Really a tough work you've done dude !
I am really surprised !
anyway, work more with CSS & JavaScript.

Some of the other recommendations here are great (optimize images, etc.). Tools like Webpagtest.org or and Pingdom.com will also analyze the site for some things you could do to speed up the site (some are relatively quick wins) Are you using a CMS like WordPress? You definitely don't want to have too many plugins active on your site.

Show us your website so that it's easier to help you in improving the speed

Thank you to all for the suggestion.

I have tested your website with several test speed checker tools and the average load time for your site is normal and for optimizing it to load better, i think you need to change a little your template, the images and other designing structures. I opened it with my own browser too and the content loads good but images are loading slowly. I think you need to change/optimize your theme.

go to Google's website speed test, test your site there and if there are any needed recommendations, you will get notified.

Well, I feel really really sorry for your clients...
Test the site with u n s h i t.com (without spaces)
All the answers you need are there.