Speeding up Website

  • Resolved endalldisease

    (@endalldisease)


    12 years ago

    I’m trying to speed up my website:
    http://www.EndAllDisease.com

    It loads very slowly and is not acceptable.

    One of the things with this template is that ALL of the videos on the homepage posts load when you load the homepage.

    1. How would I make the site so that it loads the videos only after a person clicks the sample image?

    I got advice from a friend who said this:
    “The menus don’t all have to be loaded before the page is displayed. Put the menus HTML code AFTER the body tag.”

    2. Is that good advice? Would it work? If so, how would I do that? What .css sheet would I open and what am I looking for?

    Thank you so much!
    -Mark

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  • triamazikamno

    (@triamazikamno)

    12 years ago

    Hello.

    The biggest reason of your website being slow is its size. And you can greatly reduce it without any content changes and it’s very easy:

    1. Turn on gzip compression for html/css/js content. There are plenty of tutorials over internet, i.e. this one
    2. Optimize your images! That’s insane having so small image like this http://www.endalldisease.com/wp-content/themes/video-elements/images/rss.png having 50Kb size. You can losslessly optimize it to 1.6Kb. You can use an awesome tool from Yahoo to do it: http://smush.it/. Optimize all of your design elements and you’ll save ~300 Kb of page size.
    3. Leverage browser caching by setting Expires header on the images/css/js, there are also plenty of tutorials, you can use this one

    Thread Starter endalldisease

    (@endalldisease)

    12 years ago

    You just gave me 3 solutions and pointed me in all the right directions to get all of them done. I am going to make all 3 fixes to my website, you saved me so much time and stress. I am so thankful. Thank you so much!

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