aswheeler77

Wow, it looks like it’s loading all the pages in 2 seconds, now. I downloaded the “regen thumbnails” and regen’d them all, and then I visited all the category pages once (took 5-10 seconds), and then I cleared the browser cache and tried the category pages again, and they were lightning fast! (2 seconds)

It seems that the W3 cache is working now, I’m guessing? (It caches the database requests, which made it load faster with future identical requests, I’m guessing.)

Problem solved. Thank you for your help!

(So it executed the same DB queries every time the category page loaded, I’m guessing, and all the DB queries associated with 16+ products made it slow. Very little to do with the images, like I deduced. I wonder if the DB queries are supposed to be that slow or if there’s something I could do to speed it up, besides caching? Then again, maybe regenerating the thumbnails did something magical with the W3 cache.)

Hello, maybe there’s a trick with the product images that I need to know.

The original image measures 300×300, which is scaled down to 146×146 on the category page (The original product image was 1500×1115 and 340kb, but it seems that woocommerce pre-creates a 300×300 thumb which is downloaded by the client. If it’s generating the 300×300 thumb on the fly from the 1500×1115 image when the client visits the category page, than I could see the problem, but I’m assuming it’s not doing that?). In the Product Edit page, the “Product Image” is set but the “Product Gallery” image isn’t set. Would setting the Product Gallery image speed up the category page loads?

I tried checking out one of the category pages using that tool, and the website automatically evaluated the root URL/homepage instead, so it didn’t really tell me much of anything.

It’d be nice if the website loaded all the information/pictures all at once, instead of what I presume it’s doing sequentially (Waits for one image to load, then it requests the next, waits for it to load, etc.). But, I don’t know enough about the underlying code of the Woocommerce/Mystile-theme to adequately surmise that. Maybe some form of caching would speed it up? I tried W3 total cache, but it didn’t seem to speed up the category pages at all, and if it did, by a second at most.