@jorismeermans – what are you using to test the load speed? Can I see those results somewhere online? Usually, Pingdom or Webpagetest give you a link that you can share with your test results.
Thanks,
Cristian.
Hello Chistian
It was on https://gtmetrix.com/; it was 27sec. (really slow), and it became 48sec after checking some options of the pluging…
We really have a lot of visitors to our website; around 1000 unique per day and I really want the loading time going down. I’m even considering building it again from the ground 🙂 so if you could help me out here, it would safe me a lot of time 🙂
Hi @jorismeermans,
from what I’m seeing, you’d be able to shave off like almost 15s right off the bat by fixing 3 things:
– initial look-up takes around 10s (see first two entries in this list: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.beyondborders.be/zJSTF84H)
– generating a 404 page on your host takes around 5.5s which is huge
I’m going to go on a huge leap here and assume you’re using a cheap-ish shared hosting plan? That’s the root of most of your issues, currently 🙂
You’re also testing from a CA server which is usually slower than a US based one. I’ve done a speed test on pingdom from a US based server, without cache warm-up it was down to: 15s, with cache warm-up down to 13s: https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/cfl0lf/http://www.beyondborders.be/
Now, I’m not saying these are “good” speeds to have, but it’s at least a sign of moving forward 🙂
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Macho Themes.
🙂 Thanks for the help 🙂
I’m really paying for my hosting; as I made websites in the past for clients, I run a reseller platform where this website is hosted too.
How can I skip the initial look-up and the 404 page? And you say fixing 3 things, what is the 3rd one?
Thank you so much (already)!
@jorismeermans) – it’s actually two things 😀
1. Get a better hosting
2. Fix that file giving out a 404, either remove it from wherever it’s being loaded or have your hosting company look up the slow loading times.
Thanks,
Cristian.
The file that’s giving out the 404 error is coming from a theme called “Royal” and is called custom.css
That is the name of my theme, Royal. I’ll try to find it, thank you!
Also, throwing in a CDN into the mix should help quite a bit. I’d recommend looking into KeyCDN.com – which is what we’ve been using for a long time and we were quite happy with them.
Also, for combining JS/CSS files I recommend the awesome AutoOptimize plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/
And if you feel like making the website faster, I’m really willing to pay for it. Just let me know if we can agreed to that; happy to pay half of the money in advance.
Greetz
Joris
Hi Jorris,
we don’t normally offer this as a service, but I couldn’t recommend Mike Adreasen more for a job like this. You can reach him on Codeable: https://guides.wp-bullet.com/codeable-hire
I’ve already notified him about this ticket so he’s already up to speed with what’s being going on 🙂
Thanks,
Cristian.
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