How do I get WordPress to load more smoothly?

  • Site: https://aysomusic.org

    Problem: Well, the site loads in a piecemeal fashion. First the header, then the sidebar and page text. Last, the slider. I’m doing this work for a nonprofit and the head of it is exceptionally detail oriented. He wants the page to render smoothly and quickly as one piece.

    Is there any way to make this happen? I am running a few “page speed” plugins to compress js and css and images, manage cache better. They have improved speed but not this problem.

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  • jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    there are a lot of calls out to external sites that are required to load things like fonts and features to the site that have to be executed before the whole thing renders. i’m sure there’s a way to make it load then call but i’m no javascript jockey so i can’t really help there.

    you might want to investigate a different theme with a lighter footprint…

    Try installing a caching plugin

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/w3-total-cache/

    The only way to do this is to have a covering area over the whole page, and remove that once the page has loaded. It’s a pretty bda way of doing things, but that’s the only effective way of doing this.

    The other suggestion is to tell them to get a faster server and internet connection so that the connection speed isn’t the problem. ??

    Tim Nash

    (@tnash)

    Spam hunter

    So looking at your site with – https://gtmetrix.com/reports/aysomusic.org/vsvRqmVL

    The issue is the sheer number of get requests you are making on each page load, if possible you want to look at combining some of those css files and js files. You could also look at something called Lazy Loading, to defer loading unessential content till after the primary content is loaded.

    Finally enabling things like gzip and minifying content will help as well.

    Caching will not actually make the number of requests lower but caching plugins often have magnification tools for minifying and combining. If you have server access consider installing mod_pagespeed.

    Thread Starter firemanbosco

    (@firemanbosco)

    All great suggestions! Thanks everyone. I have installed a caching plugin, but perhaps it’s not correctly configured. It’s a small site so there has to be something wrong in the set up to load so slowly and awkwardly.

    I am going to look into mod_pagespeed and into minifying CSS and JS further.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter firemanbosco

    (@firemanbosco)

    All great suggestions! Thanks everyone. I have installed a caching plugin, but perhaps it’s not correctly configured. It’s a small site so there has to be something wrong in the set up to load so slowly and awkwardly.

    I am going to look into mod_pagespeed and into minifying CSS and JS further.

    Thanks!

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