Feedback on website speed

  • Gadgetgod

    (@gadgetgod)


    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there,

    Over the past few days ive been stressing over my website speed, it started at around 30-40 seconds to load any page on the website.

    Ive added:
    -WP minify
    -WP super-cache
    -Script compresser
    -CDN
    and quite a few others, but if anything, they seem to have made no difference at all? Especially the CDN plugin, that just seemed to make it take longer.

    My website is http://www.coolest-tech.com, please take a look and let me know how long it took for you to load up different pages.

    Also, i have used http://www.webpagetest.org to check the speeds, here are the results: Test results

    The thing is everytime i redo the test the results are different, sometimes its 40 seconds, sometimes it tells me its 2 or 3 seconds.

    Please any help would be greatly appreciated.
    P.S. The test results normally tell me that the domain “www.cooleest-tech.com” takes the longest to load, well over 20 seconds, everything else is milli-seconds. I dont understand why the actual homepage takes so long to load when everything thats on it should be so quick!

    So please let me know how long it takes you and how i can improve it, thank you,
    -GG

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  • Simon Fairbairn

    (@simonfairbairn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    It took about 10 seconds for the site to load for me.

    I can see that the minify plugin is getting all of the scripts together in the header of your site. JavaScript actually stops the download of the HTML while the JS files are fetched and therefore the script files should be loaded at the foot of the document where possible.

    If the minify plugin is dynamically minifying the JS files, then this can increase the delay as the page waits for the files to be minified and then delivered.

    This would also explain why other pages load quicker: once the JS is downloaded, it is often cached by the browser so it doesn’t have to be downloaded again.

    See if you can get the minify plugin to load the scripts at the bottom of the document to at least increase the perceived speed.

    Thread Starter Gadgetgod

    (@gadgetgod)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Ive done what you said and i have also deleted a script compressor which webpagetest.org told me was running slowly. i think ive moved the minify to the footer?

    Anyway, after i deleted the script compressor plugin and moved the minify JS code plugin to the footer i checked on webpagetest.org again, this time it told me the homepage was really quick (a few milliseconds) but it says that the script compressor is making the site really slow even though ive deleted it?

    Take a look here: Test results 2

    after that i decided to use the Firebug add-on to firefox to see what it said about the speed, and this one told me that again it was just the actual domain name homepage making it slow.

    Any further help is appreciated, thank you.

    Simon Fairbairn

    (@simonfairbairn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    OK, it looks like something is still looking for the script compressor, but not finding it. On those test results, the script compressor file returns a 404.

    You’ve definitely deleted all of the files? Does it have any dependencies that may be searching for it? When you first installed it, did you have to add any code manually to any of your theme files?

    Thread Starter Gadgetgod

    (@gadgetgod)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    My site has a different problem now where it just wont load at all.
    So i need to fix that first.

    And the script compresser problem seems to have fixed itself, it doesnt find that anymore at all on the test. And no i didnt have to add anything manually to the theme.

    Thanks,
    -GG

    jacquepierro

    (@jacquepierro)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Simon,

    I’m actually not a having a problem with this topic but actually one that you helped with at this link http://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-all-the-junk?replies=34
    The topic is closed now and I have found no other solutions in the forum. I didn’t know of any other way to contact you to see if you could help.

    I’m using the “Sliding Doors” theme and want to remove the “default categories” that are on the right side of the page. I don’t mind adding a drop down category with a widget on the left side , which I can do on my own.

    If you could help me out and tell me how to override the “default categories” showing up on the right side I would greatly appreciate any help you could give.

    My website is http://www.JacquePierro.com if you would like to see what I’m talking about.

    Thanks, Jacque

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