Need some help to improve my sites loading time

Didn't know that I can post the link, here it is

Quickbooks University Training Tutorials

What I could manage today was getting that LZIP thing working.

That had a mayor improvement in speed, about 50% faster then prior to using that.

As I didn't had a header.php in Profits Theme, I got it running over the wp_config.php

In case some of you like to try that, here are the steps

1 - check your websites speed first here at Pingdom Tools

2 - Check if your host hast LZIP enabled. Do this over uploading a test.php file into your domain (yourdomain.com/test.php) with the code in it

3 - Go into your browser and look up that file at yourdomain.com/test.php

you should get a overview over your php settings with the ZLIP info close to the the bottom, some like this


4 - If LZIP is enabled, you can then go into your wp-config.php file and add following code to it

What should cut loading speed in half, at least for me it did that.

And RickKent, thanks for the great overview of the options, appreciated it.

G.

This is spot on.

There's greater database problems than that though, evidenced by what I saw when I entered the qbuniversity.org url into Google's PageSpeed Insights tool. You can see this below:



It does look like the server is choking hard on database queries.

Ok, now I'm seeing it when I visit with a browser...



Another thing to consider is that the home page of qbuniversity.com shouldn't require the database to be queried in the first place. Everything on that home page is cacheable, and for best performance a static copy of the page should be stored and ready to be sent out the door whenever somebody requests it.

In other words, there's no sense in wasting time querying the database and assembling all of the content of the page for each and every page hit if the page never changes.

bwh, you should probably get somebody who knows what they're doing to set up an effective caching system for your site and/or get some hosting that can handle heavier loads. As kingfish stated, the hostmonster/bluehost server you're on doesn't seem to be up to the task of effectively handlng the database load your site has. You would probably notice a great improvement though if your site just stopped all of its unnecessary database queries.

I can see your site fine now. But it's slow, even when clicking on links to pages which I visited before. They're not stored in my browsers cache and my browser is fetching a new copy of the page (which hasn't changed) each time.

Yeah get someone to do that for you. That site could use it.

Shared hosts aren't necessarily bad, as I think Kingfish touched upon. It's just when they're overloaded that shared hosting becomes a problem.

There's a ton of sites on the same server as yours over at Hostmonster. According to this page there's about 2,000 domains hosted on that server (I don't know about the accuracy of that, but there's a lot of sites on that server). Granted, it's probably a big machine and most of those domains receive next to no traffic, but the server has limits.

True, most people do land at a shared hosting provider when they start off, but it's usually these overloaded mass-market providers who stuff as many customers on a server as they can get away with.

That won't do anything as far as your site's problems are concerned.

Well, you're asking questions, and that's a good thing to do.