Woocommerce website with seriously slow loading times.

I’d probably start by taking a look at that 3 MB image to see if you can optimize it. A 3 MB image is huge for the web.

When I run your site through GTMetrix, it doesn’t complain about that image. Your site loads in 1.4s on GTMetrix. I usually like to get my Woocommerce sites loading at below 1.0s.

It does appear to me to be a caching issue. The first time I load your site on my machine, it takes a couple of seconds to load. Subsequently, after my browser has cached your images, it loads in well under a second. That makes me think that optimizing your images will do the trick.

I see you’re already using WP Super Cache, which will help loading speed a lot. Configuring it to use ModRewrite (if your server supports it) instead of the default PHP WP Super Cache uses should speed it up some if you haven’t already done that.

If you can eliminate any plugins, that would be good too.

Depending on how your host works, it might still be a hosting issue. Some shared hosts are set up to throttle high-traffic sites in order to deal with a higher load from some accounts.

Thats’ an amazing response!

Thanks so much for your advice and I will get to work right away on optimising the image and re-configuring the cache plugin.

I also agree it most probably is a ‘cache’ issue as it also loads fine on my browser once the pages have been cached.

Let’s hope I can resolve this with your tips.

Best Wishes.

Hello,

You can also optimise loading time by disabling non required plugin on a per page basis using Plugin Organizer: I made a video tutorial on how to use it here: https://conschneider.de/how-to-resolve-conflict-using-plugin-organizer/