Well, yes, a faster host will help but if a theme adjustment added 5-6 seconds to your load time, the real problem is the theme adjustment. What did you do?
switching themes took off load time. right now it loads in about 5-6 seconds for me.
my first theme had a marquee and lots of pictures. my new theme gets rid of both and is faster, but only a couple seconds compared to the old theme. I really want to get the site to load in under a second.
Any suggestions?
the domain is goldnews.com btw
Sorry. Got that backwards.
Your site loads a lot faster than 5-6 seconds for me– less than a second actually, which is very good. How is your internet connection in general?
You aren’t loading a lot of scripts or css files. Cleaning up the errors should help a little. The less thinking your browser has to do the better.
Enabling compression should help more than anything.
what errors are there and how do i clean them up?
it definitely takes like 5 seconds for a full load for me. If i try load a simple html page though like goldnews.com/index2 it goes very quickly for me. i want the whole site to load that quickly.
also can you give a little more info on “enabling compression”?
what errors are there and how do i clean them up?
Did you click the link I provided?
also can you give a little more info on “enabling compression”?
Most servers can send files compressed– gzipped– if asked. It can greatly reduce the size of the files that need to be transmitted.
http://www.google.com/search?q=website+gzip+compression
http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+gzip
didn’t notice the link at first. i’m going to have to work with that a bit, the description of the errors are not totally intuitive.
Anyways, i checked out the gzip and sent a msg to my host to change the server settings (i tried from my IIS admin but couldn’t figure it out)
do you think above and beyond this there is a lot of speed to be gained by upgrading my hosting solution, and if so can you suggest something too?
thanks a lot for the help btw. really appreciate the advice.
the description of the errors are not totally intuitive.
Ask if you can’t figure something out. Most didn’t look too difficult.
do you think above and beyond this there is a lot of speed to be gained by upgrading my hosting solution, and if so can you suggest something too?
Of course, better hosting should be mean more raw power and that should always help but how much it helps really depends on what you’ve got right now and what you are willing to pay for. We moved a site from shared hosting to a VPS, with lots of RAM, and got 60-75% reduction in places.
with respect to fixing the errors, I dont even know how to find the file the error is in. Im looking at the first error after revalidating and cannot find the code. I’ve look in every filed in the wordpress admin and can’t find it.
On the validation site, look under options, check ‘show source’, then click ‘revalidate’. That should help.
The first error is in your continuous rss scrolling plugin. The javascript needs to be in a cdata section to validate as xhtml.
And…. that might take care of all of them, actually.
