TotalCache & CDN: 10 Sec Load on 800KB?

  • Resolved fuzzyfluid

    (@fuzzyfluid)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hey there, I’ve developed a few wordpress sites, however, I’m having trouble with general load times. I don’t care much for pingdom/gtmetrix/google page speed scoring, however, the scoring is fairly high across all the sites.

    The issue is im getting close to 9.5 seconds on ~760kb which i think is extremely long. Any advice on wha I missed?

    I’m using Autoptimize for minification. w3 total cache, cloudflare (previously tried jetpack site accelerator which yielded similar results), and EWWW Image Optimzer which did a good job on shrinking overall image size(previously had Smush which also yielded comparable results, butt went with EWWW for the free webp conversion.)

    Any help much appreciated,

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter fuzzyfluid

    (@fuzzyfluid)

    All right guys, figured it out. At first i deactivated HTTPS and the speeed improvement was ridiculous. Less than 1 second on 800KB. Reactivated HTTPs, and boom back to the same speed issue.

    Finally realized Real Simple SSL Plugin was the issue. After I deactivating that,I let cloudflare handle the SSL, along with enabling HSTS.

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    This specific test was done on April 16. The web page took 424 ms to load, used 33 requests, and weighed in at 874.3 KB.

    The Google Page Speed performance grade for this web page is 84/100.

    There’s a ton of more information you can check out here: https://tools.pingdom.com/#5c6108b210400000
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    https://i.imgur.com/gMp5hX0.jpg

    I got less than five seconds, it’s a progress ^^

    Thread Starter fuzzyfluid

    (@fuzzyfluid)

    Wanted to come back and correct the solution here. There’s nothing wrong with Simple Real SSL plugin.

    Two different issues were resulting in excessive load times. Using Cloudflare and my host provider, I still needed too add a www to non-www redirect in my htaccess since the SSL certificate was for “flashbackchamps.com” and not https://www.flashbackchamps.com. I know that shouldn’t make a difference but t resulted in one more request when individuals visited https://www.flashbackchamps.com for a SSL check on https://flashbackchamps.com.

    The second issue and this was resulting in about 5 seconds delay was woo commerce Ajax call for woocommerce_cart_fragments. I had to add to the bottom of my themes functions.php the following:

    /** Disable Ajax Call from WooCommerce */
    add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘dequeue_woocommerce_cart_fragments’, 11);
    function dequeue_woocommerce_cart_fragments() { if (is_front_page()) wp_dequeue_script(‘wc-cart-fragments’); }

    This woo commerce Ajax call is well-documented (https://www.webnots.com/fix-slow-page-loading-with-woocommerce-wc-ajaxget_refreshed_fragments/). Even though this does remove the 5 second load, I do find the cart now wonky. Looking to fix that issue separately, but figured I’d share.

    I’ve since gone back to using RELA SIMPLE SSL plugin with no speed issues.

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