Hummingbird slowing my site.

Hi @healthysolutions4living,

Sorry to hear about that. Is it possible to share an URL of the website, so that we could check further regarding this?

It’s tough to say what exactly might be causing it without checking the website and the page speed score on what factors might be affecting it.

Looking forward to your response.

Kind Regards,
Nithin

Hi @healthysolutions4living

Thank you for the URL.

I checked the score using Google pagespeed and I see the desktop score is already good 92 / 100 and some improvement can be done in the mobile score.

When enabling the Assets Optimization and Hummingbird caching it will take a couple of minutes for the plugin to run all the optimizations and it is necessary to run more than one time the test, you will find the complete explanation on our video guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2WSkG6-x74&list=PLV1BcivFAIdu9nxH0DU-W7LO3pFKrmbhl

Disabling the Caching > preload caching can help in the process of avoiding the site get stuck on any performance task.

Some steps are also necessary to ensure the plugin is well configured.

I will list some based on your mobile score:

Eliminate render-blocking resources

By default the Hummingbird won’t move the files to the footer using the Assets optimization in the automatic mode, it compresses and combines all files reducing the number of requests, to move some CSS or JS to the footer you can use the automatic mode following this guide:

https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/hummingbird/#eliminate-render-blocking-resources

Note, moving some scripts like jQuery core is not suggested.

Reduce unused CSS

The same shared guide shows how to remove the unused CSS, but I would suggest moving those to the footer and sometimes Google won’t be able to see all the site content.

For further optimization you can follow our Hummingbird and Smush guidelines:

https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/hummingbird/#optimization-guide
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/smush/#optimization-guide

Let us know if you have any additional questions.
Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Hi @healthysolutions4living,

Prior to running Hummingbird my desktop score was 97/100

At the moment, the website isn’t fully optimized, as I could still see Asset Optimization isn’t fully working on the website. So the current score shouldn’t be treated as the final result.

Would highly recommend following the steps by Patrick and see how it goes.

Perhaps you can tell me why Smush says “x images processed” and gives a number more than 1 when I have only the one image uploaded?

When you upload an image, WordPress will create multiple thumbnails of that single image. So suppose if you upload an image abc.jpg as an example, WordPress will create multiple thumbnails as abc-100×100.jpg, abc-300×300.jpg, abc-500×500.jpg etc

So hence you are noticing such messages even when you only have 1 image uploaded.

You can check the following guide for more info about thumbnails:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails

Kind Regards,
Nithin