Greetings! The first thing of note is that you are seeking to speed up your website, which is important, so kudos for that!
Is your site live and have a link I can take a look, plus do some speed tests to see what is loading?
Hi!
Thanks for the response.
My site is https://www.uniquebabyquiltboutique.com
I would really love to learn how to fix problems and to avoid them in the first place. I am open to any and all suggestions!
Thanks
I think I will write an article about theme bloat (tons of scripts and stylesheets), but for now, let’s tackle the issue at hand. Your theme and website are definitely loading a LOT of things…just over 2MB! A big chunk of this is from Google fonts; there’s a lot of them loading. But plugins can also be notorious for loading a lot of scripts too.
If your website needs most if not all of what I see loading, then the best thing is to look into some form of optimization/caching plugin. They can be overwhelming with many options and settings, but the other thing is to cross-fingers that using a plugin like this does not affect the functions of another plugin on your website.
I don’t use any specific caching plugin myself, although in the past I used WP Rocket, my web host is optimized which gives a nice boost. However, I think the best thing to do here is to give you a link to a site that offers a lot of reading, but also offers a lot of good helpful points/solutions that might help. The article is called 24 Tips to Speed up WordPress performance
Try that first and see if their tips help.
Regards,
Andre
Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely read the articles and see if there is anything I can do.
You are very welcome. One other thing you can do is talk to the theme developer where you got the theme from and ask them if they have suggestions to optimize your website.
