Slow to load

  • Hi Guys,

    I spent quite a while trying to get my sites load time as fast as possible, tested with https://tools.pingdom.com/ I have a slideshow on the static front page but I managed to get the number of objects loaded down to about 20. Now I have recently upgraded the theme (mystique) there are loads of images that load that aren’t needed. I didn’t change my plugins (I have things like super cache and minify) but load time went up. Could anyone give me any tips on how to reduce the number of unneed images loading? For example I have a custom header image but the default mystique one still loads even though it’s not needed.

    My site is https://www.petebarnesphotography.co.uk

    any help would be great, I have archived tests when my load times were loads quicker if they would help, still running mystique theme.

    These are some of the larger files I’m sure they are not all needed

    URL
    Size(KB)
    1
    …ww.petebarnesphotography.co.uk/wp-includes/js/prototype.js?ver=1.6
    121.2

    2
    https://www.petebarnesphotography.co.uk/wp-content/header2.png
    68.4

    3
    …ebarnesphotography.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.3.2
    55.9

    4
    …photography.co.uk/wp-content/themes/mystique/images/header.jpg
    42.5

    5
    …w.petebarnesphotography.co.uk/wp-content/themes/mystique/style.css
    42.2

    6
    …hotography.co.uk/wp-includes/js/scriptaculous/effects.js?ver=1.8.0
    38.1

    7
    …y.co.uk/wp-content/themes/mystique/js/jquery.mystique.js?ver=2.1.1
    38

    8
    …phy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/lightbox-2/lightbox-resize.js?ver=1.8
    21.4

    9
    …ography.co.uk/wp-content/themes/mystique/images/main-right.jpg
    20.2

    10
    https://www.petebarnesphotography.co.uk/
    17.8

    11
    …tography.co.uk/wp-content/themes/mystique/images/socialize.jpg
    15

    12
    ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject.js?ver=2.9.2
    10

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  • Thread Starter petebarnes

    (@petebarnes)

    Hi Gary,

    I have
    <link media=”screen” rel=”stylesheet” href=”https://www.petebarnesphotography.co.uk/wp-content/themes/mystique/style.css&#8221; type=”text/css” />

    I do have a big <title>Home</title> annoying me though!

    I have nothing with w3tc in it on the source code which seems odd even with my limited understanding of things.

    I clear all the cache in W3TC settings and in my browser and refresh, no change. Also no Debug info, same with IE, I can’t see why that would be.

    Hey Pete

    Your theme seems to be riddled with bugs. The mystique_compress_html function conflicts with plugins which use output buffer functions.

    SEO: In your functions.php file, try adding // before add_action(‘get_header’, ‘mystique_compress_html’); If that doesn’t work, delete the function itself.

    https://digitalnature.ro/projects/mystique/#comment-7556
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/377281

    NavBar: There’s another bug – when you display a static page on the front of your site, both ‘home’ and ‘blog’ appear to be selected on the navbar at the same time.

    The problems seem to be with the latest version of the theme. You might want to try googling for an older version.

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