Proof of Speed Increase with Multisite?

  • So while the title is a little deceiving, the topic is on point..lol

    We have a large and old (10+ years old) wordpress site that does very good in SEO, but we continue to fight page load speed…https://bassonline.com
    We have done all the common, wordpress fixes. Eliminated plugins, Great caching, site and server, optimised images, use of Cloudflare and MaxCDn for images, DB has been cleaned and optimized daily, site and plugins are maintained daily. Have increased server capacity several time in the past year, and now sits on a VPS by itself with plenty or I should say more than enough resources…but still, 3 to 5 second load times.

    So in reading forums, many have pointed to multisite as a way of breaking down the site to speed up site and relieve load on database?
    Is this fact or fiction?

    Is there a better way? or use a little if both?

    Others have talked about splitting up database?

    All comments and suggestions are appreciated…

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  • There is no speed differences between WP single instance vs multisite.

    IMO, your problem is site design and clutter. Go to a website test tool like -https://tools.pingdom.com/
    Your home page makes almost 200 requests and takes over 3 seconds to load! You can look through the individual requests to see why it is taking so long: chat, fb, linkedin, visitor count, etc.

    You need a WP web developer to optimize your site.

    Thread Starter Mr Bass

    (@mr-bass)

    Thank for the responds, and I appreciate you looking at the site. All of your points are elementary and common response to a slow wordpress site.

    The 200 request are because the site is popular and needs function. Isn’t this why we use wordpress..for all the great features. That’s kinda my point, if wordpress won’t run with lots of features and plugins then why use it. Not saying I like it better, but we have Drupal sites with more on slower servers that work better???

    The design and clutter is a preference and necessity, if you had a large site with tons of content you would know this.

    We wordpress, it still comes down to executing css, php and javascript….and yes, this is why we have posted and looking for a professional not just someone that quotes the common practices everyone repeats about wordpress and wants to sell websites.

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