Site very very slow

  • Howdy folks,

    I have tried everything since updating my theme to increase the speed of the website but im still getting response times of anywhere between 10 – 20 seconds!?

    I have used a few guides online for w3tc and cloudflare but not found much of an increase in speed.

    Unfortunately my css/scripting skills are not great so such things as combining code are a bit out of the question.

    Any one have any suggestions for a bit of a beginner? I also suspect my hosting solution is terrible…could be very wrong.

    many thanks in advance!!

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  • Thread Starter tootyfrooty

    (@tootyfrooty)

    forgot the aul site link!

    Try using a service like GTMetrix to diagnose your site as it will show you likely causes for it being slow, here is the report i got for your site:
    https://gtmetrix.com/reports/iedc.ie/e6sTOFhB

    Try to check your images. Sometimes, images are so huge that’s why your site is too slow. But there are javascripts also that makes your site slow. Do you have a link to your site?

    This is the link tootyfrooty gave on the second post: https://iedc.ie/ (The text “forgot the aul site link!” was the link).
    The gtmetrix report i linked (https://gtmetrix.com/reports/iedc.ie/e6sTOFhB) backs up what you are saying, it would appear the biggest issue is JavaScripts.

    Thread Starter tootyfrooty

    (@tootyfrooty)

    Thanks guys,

    Im very new to wordpress, have a bit of a background in web alright but jsp. so how can I go about remapping where the content on my site is loaded or combined if I’m using multiple plugins and scripts from themes?

    possibly a very dumb question, but Im totally unfamiliar with php/wp content generation and creation.

    Many many thanks for the help already!

    As far I tried to review your gtmetrix, you do have a quite bad Java script. So you will need to have the help of a coder, or you change the theme of your wordpress. Normally, if do want to have faster load time, you will need to have a simple site especially if your site is just hosted to a share hosting account.

    If you want to edit the files, then you can go to the following.

    For themes:
    Appearance>> Editor

    For Plugins
    Plugins>> Editor

    WARNING: I suggest you only do this if you know what you are doing and quite adventurous. Wrongly editing your files may affect your website.

    Alternatively, if you go to cpanel, look for the folder wp content. That’s where your themes and plugins are stored, so as the images, etc.

    Thread Starter tootyfrooty

    (@tootyfrooty)

    Many thanks for the replies guys!

    I sincerely doubt I’m going to re-learn javascript and php in the time frame i want these changes made, so I will engage with the theme support (highly unlikely that they will help me boost the performance).

    Couple of things on this as well.

    1. My hosting is provided by a friends company and im getting very varied response times, last night i was getting 6 seconds, today im getting between 10-15 and it can go as high as 20. Are there any diagnostic tools for hosting server performance out there?

    1.a. Am i expecting too much?

    2. Anyone know will changing my <script> blocks to async affect anything other than the loading? i.e. if I edit the plugins and scripts will it possibly break them?

    3. Use of multiple cdns – Ive read online that making use of cloudflare with maxcdn can render fantastic results? Myth or truth?

    I’ll continue to battle with this as I would much rather not have to pay for another theme yet. But are there any recommended theme companies that focus on performance out there?

    Cant thank you all enough, you have been a great help on this!

    A good super fast host usually solves all speed problems, this is if your template is good.

    If your template is not optimized then you should dive into this topic. First use your webbrowsers web-inspector to see what is causing these delays. Could be image sizes, external files, like fonts, scripts and so on…

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Optimization

    Have fun!

    Vince

    (@ebooksulit)

    1. My hosting is provided by a friends company and im getting very varied response times, last night i was getting 6 seconds, today im getting between 10-15 and it can go as high as 20. Are there any diagnostic tools for hosting server performance out there?

    Use this tool: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

    1.a. Am i expecting too much? == No… but you need to evaluate your website.

    2. Anyone know will changing my <script> blocks to async affect anything other than the loading? i.e. if I edit the plugins and scripts will it possibly break them?

    ==As I said, better have it edited by a real javascript coder/expert because you might break your website.

    3. Use of multiple cdns – Ive read online that making use of cloudflare with maxcdn can render fantastic results? Myth or truth?

    ==True… but not all the time. As far as I see your website, it’s full of huge images. Meaning it’s not web optimized. You have to reduce the file sizes of your images. Even if you have cloudflare, it will still be slow if you have images higher than 500kb. Use only what you need.

    Normally, web optimized images are between 30kb-150kb only. If it goes beyond that, it begins to make your site slow.

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