How to increase site loading speed

  • shanthini

    (@shanthini)


    11 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    We checked the speed of our wordpress site using google speed test (Ref: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ ). But the speed test score was 5/100. The url of our site is http://www.sierratec.com/demo/SIERRA_wp. If have installed W3 Total Cache plugin version 0.9.4 and enabled ‘Enable HTTP (gzip) compression’ . Please find below the steps we tried.

    1) We tried minifying using ‘Better WordPress Minify’ plugin – This cause our child theme deactivated. Since we included custom CSS in our child theme we deactivated and deleted the plugin. Even if we activated this pluing we got only an increase of two more points
    2) We installed sumsh.it plugin version 1.6.5.4 and optimized all the images but still the in google page speed test page we received the error ‘Optimize images’
    3) Since jquery files are used if we do asynchronous loading our banner sliders stopped working. For banner slider we are using Layer slider WP version 5.0.2

    Please suggest how to improve the performance.

    Thanks

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  • janet4now

    (@janet4now)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.sierratec.com/demo/SIERRA_wp/wp-content/themes/sidious/assets/fonts/soc-icons.svg#soc-icons
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.sierratec.com/demo/SIERRA_wp/wp-content/themes/sidious/inc/icons/inc/font/moon.svg#moon
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.sierratec.com/demo/SIERRA_wp/wp-content/themes/sidious/inc/icons/inc/font/fontello.svg?37809141#fontello
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.sierratec.com/demo/SIERRA_wp/wp-content/themes/sidious/assets/fonts/soc-icons.woff
Invalid App Id: Must be a number or numeric string representing the application id.
FB.getLoginStatus() called before calling FB.init().
GET http://www.sierratec.com/demo/SIERRA_wp/wp-content/themes/sidious/assets/img/arrow-drop-red 404 (Not Found) jquery.js?5aa8a4:5

    There are several server requests returning 404. You can check those.

    Probably too many large images as well. The backgrounds can be reduced both in pixels and in kb and still work with your layout.

    Who are you using for hosting? Sometimes shared hosting accounts get lousy performance because of others you’re grouped with.

    Thread Starter shanthini

    (@shanthini)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for the reply.

    How could I find the list of ‘Failed to load resources’. Please suggest an online link or tool

    We are hosting in VPS

    Thanks

    Thread Starter shanthini

    (@shanthini)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Hi

    We checked and noted that the required files are available in the path.

    Even then the error ‘404 (Not Found)’ appears, Please suggest.

    Thanks

    RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Suggest that you check your server logs for the errors.

    This plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/
    will help with the 404 errors.

    Using smaller images is a very good idea.

    janet4now

    (@janet4now)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    You can reduce the number of fonts, the number and size of images and try removing some plugins.

    Chrome developer tools is how I saw the 404 status I posted above.

    Thread Starter shanthini

    (@shanthini)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for the suggestions.

    We will try on them and revert

    Thread Starter shanthini

    (@shanthini)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Hi

    1) We solved the issue ‘Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) ‘ by adding MIME type for .svg through IIS. Once this is added the .svg files got rendered correctly. But they are not compressed using gzip. Now we are getting the alert like ‘Enable compression for the following resources’. We are using IIS server. We checked google and noted that IIS will not compress svg files using gzip. So we are checking on this. Please suggest.

    2) We optimized the images but still the page speed test gives the error ‘Optimize images’ Ref:https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sierratec.com%2Fdemo%2FSIERRA_wp%2F. Please suggest

    Thanks

    Ghitorni

    (@ghitorni)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    With layerslider, I often find greensock.js, kreaturamedia.slider.js files are used twice (as shown in Google pagespeed). Use google as a good indicator and you will definitely increase pagespeed.

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