Slow WordPress and how to fix it.

  • Hello friends!

    I’m publishing here my first website that I build on WordPress and coded many many custom lines. Please have a look https://raccoonbox.com

    One thing that I definately need help is the feeling that the site is operating slowly. I suspect that the reason is in the WordPress. If I verify my HTML at https://validator.w3.org I get 17 errors and 6 warning but all of them are minor stuff that shouldn’t effect the site performance. I really don’t know why the site operate’s slowly. Maybe it is somehow related to databases. If someone has a opinion about this please share your wisdom.

    If I measure my site in https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ I get 40/100 to mobile and 60/100 score for desktop speed. I think those scores are bad. When I look closer with the HTML and CSS files that are suggested by google to fix they are somehow related to WordPress and not the code that I wrote and that’s why I’m affraid to start fixing them as I might end up messing the whole WordPress system.

    As the first time using the WordPress I’m not that satisfied. I wasn’t expecting it to be this slow. Does anyone else have similar issues with their WordPress site?

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  • @kozag

    Take a look here: https://i.imgur.com/RfFBzuH.jpg

    Most time consuming assets a jQ/JS scripts and associated stylesheets. Most of them belong to installed plugins. IMHO it’s one of those things (or a combination of those factors):

    – some plugins are poorly written or interfere with each other (try disabling some and see what happens)
    – WP Super Cache misconfiguraion
    – your hosting is slow

    *EDIT* You also load a hell lot of jQuery libraries and style sheets. Maybe it would be good to combine and minimize them.

    You could try this: https://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/leverage-browser-caching.html to solve the Leverage browser caching problem, and bwp-minify plugin to solve the minify issues.

    Another good practice is to optimize images, try to use jpg wherever you can, and set the size according to the view (avoid css resizes)

    Thread Starter KozaG

    (@kozag)

    Thank you for help.

    I believe that server caching is not problem here. The content does load pretty quickly, or atleast quickly enough. What concerns me is that when you move to the raccoonbox.com page your get nothing for 4-10 seconds. It is like page is not loading anything. After this blank time it loads the whole page pretty quickly.

    I’m looking at Adam’s posted screenshot and I see that Go Portfolio plugins does take time to load. Maybe there is something badly written. I like Go Portfolio and one of the most important part of raccoonbox.com is the portfolio which is build on Go Portfolio plugin. I really don’t want to change that. I remember spending a lot of time looking for nice portfolio plugins and Go Portfolio seems to be the best.

    EDIT: Now that I test it again. The blank time is gone. I only removed logo-slider plugin and installed that recommended bwp-minify plugin.

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