Website loads very slowly – LAGGING

@greenpeas I typically use sites like gtmetrix.com for troubleshooting speed issues. Looks like you could benefit from some things like enabling gzip compression (you may have to coordinate with your host for that one), optimizing your images, minifying css..

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/david.stembridge.us/iVGqkiVF

Thanks or looking Craig,
Images are optimized…. I use 1and1.com I was just reading about ‘enabling gzip compression’ I’ll check with 1and1 about that!
Thank you

Yes, it takes over 19 seconds as per this report. Look at it and try to implement the recommendations suggested therein.

Any tips on requesting ‘enabling gzip compression’ from 1and1?

I’m not familiar with 1and1 hosting specifically or what privileges you have but if mod_deflate is turned on you could use a variety of plugins like W3 Total Cache or manually add it to your .htaccess (I can provide the code you’ll need if you want to go that route).

Try making a php file and just run something like <?php phpinfo(); ?>and you should be able to check if gzip compression is enabled.

Hey @greenpeas – Just an update, there are quite a few 1&1 users experiencing high load times, this may not be specific to your site.

Just got off the phone with 1and1 support. They said my acct has gzip compression enabled; but to utilize it you have to add a script. @craig, please do forward that code. You can send a note via my sites contact page! Thank you

Add this to your .htaccess:

# BEGIN mod_deflate
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
<IfModule mod_filter.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/html application/x-httpd-php-source
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml application/xml-dtd
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rdf+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/truetype application/x-font-ttf font/opentype application/x-font-otf
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
# END mod_deflate

I currently have this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Do I add the code you put before… or after?

@greenpeas Add the code after the #END WordPress – Try running a gtmetrix report after adding that code and you should no longer be failing the “enable gzip compression” section.