Why does my website load speed vary on GTMetrix

  • Resolved Dwight56

    (@dwight56)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    First off thank you for taking your time to assist me with my website speed issues. My website is https://www.wildburrocustomtshirts.com/ , this past spring I converted to SSL to maintain my Paypal. Traffic and sales have been slow, so I have been trying to improve my site to get the rankings, which it seems is a constantly changing game.

    I have been advised to speed up my site so potential customers don’t bounce away, so I have been using GTmetrix, https://gtmetrix.com/ to assess my site speed. After deactivating and removing optional plugins, and optimizing I notice that my site speed varies from 3.6 to over 7 seconds. Yesterday I added my site to CloudFlare so I should start to see speed changes. I’m trying to reach the 2 second Holy Grail time.

    What is causing the speed test variance? Any advice is appreciated.
    thank you, Dwight

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  • I doubt very much you’re going to reach 2 seconds unless you’re paying much more than shared hosting prices. Shared hosting is simply slow. Your site is fairly light, at around a meg, and you have a reasonable number of http requests. Even with Cloudflare, your original host will be a bottleneck. Speed will vary from the load of other sites on the same server. Who is it? Hostgator?

    Look at your waterfall on GTmetrix. You have two seconds of lag with a redirect from non-www to www, which you shoild fix. And you have two seconds of TTFB from the host.

    Thread Starter Dwight56

    (@dwight56)

    Yes it is HostGator Mark with 25 sites on the shared hosting.

    How do I fix this?

    Look at your waterfall on GTmetrix. You have two seconds of lag with a redirect from non-www to www, which you shoild fix. And you have two seconds of TTFB from the host.

    I’m using a header banner to try and increase my conversion rate. Is this the cause of the 2 second delay?

    …HostGator with 25 sites on the shared hosting.

    If you want speed, get a better server, such as a VPS.

    You have a redirect from non-www to www, which means you are redirecting in .htaccess or some other way from non-www to www. You need to find how how that is happening; it’s not specifically a WordPress issue. it could be the header banner, depending on how you set it up.

    Thread Starter Dwight56

    (@dwight56)

    Okay Mark thank you for the assist. I will work on it.
    Dwight

    Thread Starter Dwight56

    (@dwight56)

    Okay Mark, I went to https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/htaccess/force-www-htaccess

    and used their second code example to make the changes. here is the code, and I just entered my url in the place of example as stated in the directions.

    #Force non-www:
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

    Hi Dwight56,

    If you’re hoping to remove “www” from within a domain name, for WordPress we would recommend creating a full backup of your site, then changing the “Site Address” and “WordPress Address” within Settings > General in your WordPress dashboard.

    If you continue to have trouble after that, you may refer to this guide ( https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL ) or please feel free to get in touch with me via [email protected] (Attention : Jonathan H.) and we’ll be glad to help.

    Thread Starter Dwight56

    (@dwight56)

    Hi Jonathan,

    I would appreciate your assistance and I have sent you an email.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter Dwight56

    (@dwight56)

    Thanks for the assistance.

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