Huge Performance Issue

  • simonmsb

    (@simonmsb)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    Hey there 🙂

    I really do hope I’m on the right forum.
    I come to you with unfortunate and desperate thoughts. For some weeks now, I’ve been facing a problem that I just can’t seem to solve.

    Basically, my website has pretty decent GTmetrix stats, however, it still remains slow to load. The most important part is that, when I compare my stats with other sites stats, my site has better ones and is still slower. Here are some screenshots of my actual stats, if needed:
    https://ibb.co/XxnHHfH
    https://ibb.co/wcJZWjb
    https://ibb.co/Trmd8gb

    I’ve already done a lot of useful things to improve site performance. It took me a lot of time since I’m totally not familiar with that.

    My website’s name is https://simoncutsem.com and I’m using Astra as a theme. I also host my website with HostGator. I’ve already contacted HostGator’s support so that they’d check their servers but they said that everything was fine on their end.

    If you could help me solve that major performance issue, I’d be forever grateful.

    Best,

    Simon

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • SJW

    (@whitsey)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    There are so many factors that go into the speed of a website. GTMetrix and Pingdom are good tools to help guide you but they cant help with everything.

    On the WordPress website side of things, you’ve done most:
    – Implement caching
    – Minify and reduce the number of resources loaded
    – Reduce the size of the page and images loaded
    – Try using lazy load for images off screen

    Other factors:
    – DNS – how long the DNS takes to reply – if you’re using the shared hosting DNS, it wont be fast
    – Hosting
    — How long for TTFB (responsive of server)
    — How many entry processes your account has to process requests (e.g. if your account is limited to 10 (normal on shared hosting) and you have 58 resources, it will only load 10 at a time and all other subsequent resources have to wait until one finishes and is available)
    — CPU and Memory of server – same as a PC, the more CPU and memory, the faster the processes run and complete.
    – Bandwidth – how much bandwidth the hosting company allows – it will throttle connections to shared hosting accounts to ensure premium accounts get premium services.

    I have also found on shared hosting services that speeds fluctuate depending on time of day – afternoon and early evening are slower because of the increased traffic online…

    Get a premium Hosting account
    Get a premium DNS hosting service
    Get a CDN service

    Thread Starter simonmsb

    (@simonmsb)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    Hey there! 🙂

    Really appreciate the time you took to explain all this.

    I think that changing my hosting might be a good solution.

    I’ll leave the topic as resolved if that solved my issue.

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