Website speed Load time

Have tried P3 in the past to diagnose issues.

And on the old post you’ll see I recommended GTMETRIX to analyse

Yes, plugins only add 1 second to load time.

I’ve used bwp minify, w3 total cache, super cache, async js css, speed booster pack, parallelized image downloads across 4 subdomains, and none of this seems to work well for anything.

My images take the longest to load, blocking, probably because of the js, regardless of the fact that they are about 16kb each, and are each getting called from a different hostname.

Extremely frustrating.

I’ve also used GTMETRIC, PINGDOM, and PAGESPEED INSIGHTS, and addressed all of the problems they show me, and it does no good.

I wouldn’t be this frustrated if I hadn’t exhausted all optimization resources in the past 48 hours. Hour upon hours of time wasted.

It’s either this theme, or my hosting, but I’ve never had this much trouble with my other websites that all load at about 1.88s, so it seems like the theme is the culprit.

Using photon through jetpack rather than my own subdomains is the only thing that chopped it down from 6 seconds, to 3, which I was satisfied with, except photon resizes images incorrectly so my featured images don’t look right, so I stopped using that as well.

It just seems like something to do with all the javascript. One thing I can say is that, using a web speed test like pingdom, will show it at 7.52s or whatever, but when actually loading the site in the browser, it “appears” to load around 4s.

Still not good enough though.

With 560K downloads since release, if it was a Theme issue then I think it may have been spotted by now!!

Can we see link to site?

https://designeradam.com

I think you’re probably trying too hard with too many plugins. Minifying using options from several tools will cause problems. Make sure you only minify with one.

Strip back to basics; deactivate all plugins; then add them one by one to find the culprits.

And delete unnecessary plugins. For example, in trying to analyse what might be slowing you down, I note that right-click doesn’t work on your images. Whatever’s doing this is either in error or a waste of time. You also seem to be loading jquery from Google, which is plain wrong. You should be loading only your own (WordPress) jquery. Eliminate any plugins that reload jquery. And you seem to be using google analytics and WP stats. Why both? You’re also loading the Exo font. Are you using it anywhere?

If you fail to get the speed you want on a WordPress level, contact your host. Their job is to serve your pages fast and should be able to help you.

I’m not using plugins at the same time that do the same things, I have just tried all options of them.

Right click disabled is image protection for my photography.
Why is loading jquery from google wrong? Doesn’t that save on bandwidth?

It can cause a lot of problems. Read this article to understand some of the issues: https://pippinsplugins.com/why-loading-your-own-jquery-is-irresponsible/

One of my plugins I was testing to improve the load time changed that to googles, I don’t know how to change it back.

Hi @ajaxouch,
I just checked your website : https://gtmetrix.com/reports/designeradam.com/MXv49GMa
your website generates a lot of http request to get all the scripts and stylesheets. You might want to use a cache plugin to combine and compress all those files into less.
A good way to improve the loading time is to activate the browser cache (also well handled by a cache plugin).
If you really want to make it even faster, use a CDN for your theme and media files.
I usually use the Total Cache plugin. It offers all the necessary option to drastically improve your load time.
Hope this helps!

I think you should try Total Cache plugin and MaxCDN.