Website Performance Issues/Help

  • gearu

    (@gearu)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    I’m interested in assistance or advice with my website performance.

    This is a photography website, so it is very image heavy. The design uses intentionally using large images and I want to improve performance as best I can within the parameters of the current design. Image files have been saved out of photoshop highly compressed already.

    http://www.imageworkshop.com

    I’m using a free ,Cloudflar account to assist with page load speeds, since my site is image heavy and I am based in Australia (my hosting is with hostgator in Texas and cloudflare have a Sydney based server).

    I am not currently using a dedicated CDN (like MaxCDN) – and I’m interested to know if this would add a significant speed improvement if added alongside using Cloudflare?

    I have W3 Total Cache installed (and hopefully configured right).

    Are there any recommended website speed tests that will walk ALL PAGES of your website testing each? Most tools I find seem to only test one URL at a time? I ideally need to find a reliable benchmark that I can use to test which changes help to actually make an improvement, whilst also identifying potentially slow pages?

    I’ve done some testing with the following, but please let me know if there are other better solutions?

    PINGDOM TEST http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cZ9iea/www.imageworkshop.com 82/100 and 2.19 sec page load (although I think this test is probably run in the US, so perhaps not an accurate reflection of the load time for someone in Australia?)

    P3 (Performance Plugin Profiler)
    Claims that these are the slowest plugins to load:
    NextGen gallery plugin taking 2.5 seconds to load. This seems really long? [[a subsequent re-run came out as 1.3 sec]]
    Jetpack is taking 0.5 seconds to load (I don’t really use any functions from this so can probably remove it).

    GT METRIX WORDPRESS PLUGIN
    Pagespeed: A (93%)
    YSlow: B (87%)
    Load time 3.27 seconds

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  • Chris Olbekson

    (@c3mdigital)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Hi gearu,

    Your site loads very fast considering the heavy images and number of files you are serving. The big images are compressed very well and even though your load times are listed at 2 or 4 seconds the user doesn’t notice it because the initial page is being rendered instantly. The only slow page I got was the about page and it was probably because the cache had to be rebuilt.

    My only suggestion to make it faster is to combine and minify all your javascript and css. You can do this manually through the w3 total cache settings or you can use a plugin like dependency minification.

    The only other tools I know of are enterprise load testing tools that can get expensive to run. Unless you are serving pages at an enterprise level.

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