Please help with slow running site

  • Harrison.

    (@harrison-1)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    My site, http://www.harrisonspeed.com, is taking too long to load on desktop and on mobile device.

    I have run several gtmetrix tests on it and now the Page Speed Grade is a 90% but the YSlow is 76%. Under the YSLOW I the following two stand out:
    Add expires headers
    There are 11 static components without a far-future expiration date.
    •http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
    •https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js
    •http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js
    •http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro%3A400%2C300%2C600%2C700&ver=4.1.1
    •http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato%3A400%2C300%2C700%2C900&ver=4.1.1
    •http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Merriweather%3A400%2C700%2C300%2C900&ver=4.1.1
    •http://s.gravatar.com/js/gprofiles.js?ver=2015Febaa
    •http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit_main.js?PIN_16492
    •http://pixel.wp.com/g.gif?v=ext&j=1%3A3.3.2&blog=85920513&post=0&tz=-5&host=www.harrisonspeed.com&ref=&rand=0.8893732454490884
    •http://s.gravatar.com/css/hovercard.css?ver=2015Febaa
    •http://s.gravatar.com/css/services.css?ver=2015Febaa

    Make fewer http requests
    This page has 33 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one. This page has 13 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.

    Also on the page speed tab I am not doing well on Defer parsing of JavaScript with the following

    248.5KiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering.
    •http://www.harrisonspeed.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.11.1 (85.7KiB)
    •http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js (69.3KiB)
    •http://www.harrisonspeed.com/wp-content/themes/organic_response/js/jquery.flexslider.js?ver=20130729 (27.3KiB)
    •https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js (27.2KiB)
    •http://www.harrisonspeed.com/wp-content/themes/organic_response/js/jquery.isotope.js?ver=20130729 (20.1KiB)
    •http://www.harrisonspeed.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.2.1 (5.5KiB)
    •http://www.harrisonspeed.com/wp-content/themes/organic_response/js/superfish.js?ver=20130729 (4.4KiB)
    •http://www.harrisonspeed.com/wp-content/themes/organic_response/js/html5shiv.js?ver=4.1.1 (3.3KiB)
    •http://www.harrisonspeed.com/wp-content/themes/organic_response/js/jquery.modal.min.js?ver=20130729 (3.0KiB)
    •http://www.harrisonspeed.com/wp-content/themes/organic_response/js/hoverIntent.js?ver=20130729 (1.3KiB)
    •http://www.harrisonspeed.com/wp-content/themes/organic_response/js/jquery.fitVids.js?ver=20130729 (1.1KiB)
    •http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js (248B)

    I have the following plugins: WP Fastest Cache, BJ Lazy Load, EWWW Image Optimizer, and jetpack. This is my first attempt at ever building any form of website so there is a steep learning curve for me. Please help me get my load time down.

    Thanks

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Your site’s actually just fine: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.harrisonspeed.com/d6GKuZS2

    Don’t put too much stock in YSlow, it’s rather old. A score of 90% from Page Speed with a page load time of 3.75 seconds is very impressive these days.

    http://www.webpagetest.org/ is another site I trust for speed tests.

    The only thing I’d do is re-size and compress http://www.harrisonspeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BMW_M3_Harrison_Crop_2500.jpg a bit. It’s 1.5 MB, compared to the truck photo which is only 361 KB.

    Thread Starter Harrison.

    (@harrison-1)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Excellent, thanks so much.

    What size should pictures for the home page typically be?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    9 years, 1 month ago

    It can probably be safely compressed down a bit in your favorite photo editor.

    What I mean above is you got the similar-sized truck photo down to 361 KB, 1/5 the size of the BMW photo, so you can cut down on the load time by applying similar compression to the BMW photo.

    Patrick0sborne

    (@patrick0sborne)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Sorry to bring up an old thread,
    I just wanted to add this useful tidbit:

    If you need to optimize your images, Gtmetrix automatically does it for you. After you run a scan on your site, click “Optimize Images” under “Page Speed”. It tells you what images need to be optimized, and then it says “see optimized version”.

    You can open & save them all and replace the un-optimized files with these new ones.

    Gtmetrix doesn’t re-size your images though, so you’ll need to do that in another program.

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