Posts appearing slowly

WordPress will never be as fast as a static html site because it is dynamically building the page. However on the publishing side it shows its worth. There are several things that are going to effect how fast the page loads.
1) how long does the page take to render
2) how many other sites are you getting information from
3) how fast is the server it is coming from
4) how much data are you sending to the user (total page size)

Your static page loads 6.8KB in 235ms
The WP site loads 29.4 KB in 2.36s – app 3X the data in 100X the time

But lets look at that time. (A great tool to use is the NET option in the FireBug extension in FireFox. It will show you size and load times of various parts of the page)

The net option in FireBug shows a 1.9S wait while looking for the OpenSans-Regulat.ttf and it got a 404 Not Found
You also spent time waiting for other servers to respond – why, probably because you have plugins asking for info from them.

There are things you can do to speed things up
1) get rid of the audio ‘Welcome to Dear Gabby’ for one it’s annoying and secondly it is that much more data that has to be loaded.
2) disable all plugins and test it and see how much time is used by the plugins – remember each plugin adds to the total amount of code that has to be executed to render the page.
3) use a caching plugin 0- then the first person will cause the page to be built, but others will get a cached version of it.

It looks like you must be using the OpenSans-Regulat.ttf font and it can not be found on your site – that’s what caused the 404 Not Found – and it took 1.9 seconds to determine that.

3) use a caching plugin 0-

the ‘0’ was a typo, (sort of like your Hi uggledad – grin) it shouldn’t be there – use a caching plugin like wp-super cache

I don’t know where “OpenSans-Regulat.ttf” comes from—maybe it’s a default font with the Side Out theme? Maybe I should specify a font?

loks like it is a font in the theme and either the author didn’t provide it or forgot to tell you how to get it, in eithor case you should report this to the theme author.

ID’s and CLASS’s re used to identify elements you want to effect with CSS. ID’s should be unique on a page and CLASS’s can be used in multiple elements.

As to how to use them with that short code, you should ask the plugin’s author or search it’s documentation.

where did you get the plugin and is ‘text reading’ it’s actual name?

Like I said, the font is being referenced by the CSS in teh theme. That’s why you should contact the theme author.

Ummm, You just change the name of the font

@font-face {
font-family: “Arial”;
src: url(“fonts/Arial”);
}

did you load the font into a new folder in your theme folder? because thats where it is going to be looked for.

The answer is no you didn’t and you now show a 404 becasue it is ooking for teh font at http://www.comcom121.org/deargabby/wp-content/themes/side-out/fonts/Arial which doesn’t exist.

Well it looks like you got the404 fixed (I’ve seen this using the NET option of the FIREBUG extension of FIREFOX)

However you have succeeded in uping the load time from 2.5 seconds to 8.56 seconds.

Did you try my suggestion in the first post to check the speed? I see the results of several plugins in use….

Go and install the FireBug extension of FireFox and activate it. then turn on the NET option and refresh the page. It;’s a good idea to turn off caching too so you see the ‘first time’ load of the page each time.

note the total load time at teh bottom of the NET panel then disable ALL plugins and refresh teh page again and look at the time. Now you know how much time the plugins are costing you.