Causing Certain Icons Not To Display

Hi there,

Your site opens super slow to me, some images do not even load to me… It seems that most of your images are opened through PHP on cwsd.php.
Opening images with PHP is one of the worst possible things for performance… I suggest you change your theme or whatever plugin is doing that, cause it makes no sense.

Icons missing can be caused by several reasons that may occur simply from the merging of css or js files, although usually it’s css related.

You can try to choose the option to “preserve the order of css files” and if that doesn’t work, try to select the option to inline all css.

If that doesn’t help, it could be related to your site using that php file to open the images. If you are sure it’s not, then try to read the faqs and try to find the conflicting file and add it to the ignore list.
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/fast-velocity-minify/faq/

Alternatively, perhaps you can try the autoptimize plugin, which may be easier to setup.

It’s slow because I de-activated “Fast Velocity Minify” while waiting for your reply. Ill apply your suggestions later tomorrow.

Thanks for your insight into the loading time ans issues of my website. Can you suggest a great theme that doesn’t use cwsd.php? I am already using Autoptimize in conjunction with Fast Velocity Minify.

Please note that score and speed are two different things.

You can have a 100% score for optimization, but still have a slow loading site taking a minute to load on gtmetrix.

In your case, even with FVM I don’t think the website would be fast, specifically because of images. That alone, is putting an heavy load on your server, because instead of having the images served directly, the theme is resizing them or processing them on every single pageview.

I would say that any premium theme on themeforest.net should not have this implemented, since it’s very bad practice to use PHP to serve images.

Noted. Just out of curiosity, exactly how long is it taking to load on your side?

Its a long time… and there is something else too.

For example, from Japan it takes 18 seconds.
https://prntscr.com/luqjca

But from my VPN in Singapore it took 30 seconds.
Refreshing and requesting it a second time, now doesn’t even open.
https://prntscr.com/luqhvf

Last time it took like 1 minute to open, when it was working.
It may be that your provider has poor routing to Singapore or Southeast Asia (my vpn is on Linode Singapore).

I would advise you to change hosting and remake your theme so it doesn’t use php for images.

You can see on gtmetrix waterfall, that each of your images takes 1 to 2 seconds to load https://prntscr.com/luql7a while it should take less than 0.1 second (ie: look at google fonts loading in 0.05 seconds).

Also the amount of errors…
https://www.dotcom-tools.com/website-speed-test.aspx#36D35940AB4E4B19B3F7D38608505060

Thank you so much. You have helped me immensely. I have recently taken up website optimization so your input was not only timeous but incredibly helpful as well. This website was especially helpful: https://www.dotcom-tools.com. I have applied your advice as best as I can and I am still optimizing my website’s speed! “WebDefender Security – Protection & GDPR” is the plugin that was using PHP to load images. I deleted it and I went back to using Wordfence. There was an immediate change in my website’s speed. Please check if there’s an improvement on your side – this is the last time I ask this favor of you. Also I implemented this “You can try to choose the option to “preserve the order of css files” and now the, previously affected, icons are all showing properly. So thanks a lot.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by osandigital.

Indeed, now it opens much faster!

I’ll keep that “WebDefender Security – Protection & GDPR” plugin name in mind whenever I see something similar, thanks.

Happy FVM worked fine for you, thanks for reporting.