hmmm … hard to say, but your site seems very slow. some generic tips to start off with;
* make sure you have a page caching solution (plugin, generally, such as wp super cache or hyper cache).
* do not inline all CSS, you have that much CSS that this hurts your performance
* when optimizing JS, add “userSettings” (without the quotes) to the JS-optimization exclusion list, to avoid that block of inline JS to continuously break AO’s cache
hope this helps,
frank
I’m currently running the following for “speed improvement”:
1. autoptimize
2. EWWW optimizer cloud
3. WordPress GZIP compression
4. WP Super Simple Speed
5. ZenCache
I am focusing my efforts on evilempiregaming.com/sbs as that’s the site I’ve been actually working on. I’m not going to waste time on the others until I fix the speed issues. It’s running the same theme as the home domain. I’m starting to think it’s the host I am using (arvixe.com), but I was hoping to at least get it to load in a few seconds .
Hi MattFL850,
Part of the problem is that you’re using a GZIP plugin that uses the PHP ob_gzhandler() callback. So, ZenCache is not working: use mod_deflate w/ Apache or use zlib.output_compression in your php.ini file and ZenCache will start caching your pages.
You should also deactivate and delete WP Super Simple Speed (it’s more of a hammer than a scalpel); or, at the very least delete the other GZIP plugin as WPSSS handles GZIP. Your .HTACCESS is undoubtedly a mess at this point…
Best,
AJ
AJ…just add the line zlib.output_compression to my php.ini file? I have deleted the plugin you suggested.
adding that line broke the page so im assuming i did it wrong.
Don’t inline all CSS this actually will degrade your performance. Let Autoptimize combine all the CSS into as few as files as possible.
The reason is if you don’t then on a return visit the website will be slow due to the fact the browser can’t cache all of that inline CSS. Then, I would look at removing ShareThis and use custom HTML share buttons. I have a GitHub repository that has a lot of default HTML buttons that you could play around with to design and such.
https://github.com/Volnus/WordPress-HTML-Share-Buttons
Hi MattFL850,
If WordPress GZIP compression was the plugin you deleted and you still have WP Super Simple Speed installed, then you should be good to go concerning compression since WP Super Simple Speed implements gzip compression using mod_deflate.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but it appears you’ve been willy-nilly throwing plugins at the site; as such, there are likely very serious issues with the site’s .HTACCESS too. The fundamental problem right now is pretty clearly server response time and conflicting and/or malformed directives, so you’ll want to get compression dealt with and clean up .HTACCESS before moving forward with optimizing the site for performance.
Best,
AJ
