Title: Posts appearing slowly
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Posts appearing slowly
* [iKerrith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ikerrith/)
* (@ikerrith)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/)
* New WP 4.1.
Theme: Side Out Plug in: Easy Columns
* I’m testing WP to see if I can replace my Expression Web web sites with WP.
* On my new WP start page, referred to as
- Index of Dear Gabby’s Letters
* I have links to 50 posts. Each of the 50 posts have been created as a separate
post. **They all work correctly**—however, when I compare the speed in which
say post #1 (gab1) appears using WP it’s much slower than when I use the HTML
composed page.
* **For example**:
* **Dear Gabby via HTML**: On [http://www.comcom121.org/gabby/index.htm](http://www.comcom121.org/gabby/index.htm)
When I click on [1. Estranged husband spreading lies](http://www.comcom121.org/gabby/gab1.htm)
the HTML page appears almost instantly.
* **Dear Gabby via WordPress**: On [Dear Gabby](http://www.comcom121.org/deargabby/)
when I click on 1. [Estranged husband spreading lies](http://www.comcom121.org/deargabby/2014/12/29/gab1/)
gab1 takes considerably longer to display—as do all posts created not using the
Text Reading plugin.
* I’m assuming I’m doing something wrong. Suggestions?
* Thanks, Kerry
* **Note**: Google lists more than 500 Dear Gabbys. Ours has been listed first
for more than ten years in a row.
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* [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
* (@juggledad)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743299)
* 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.
* Thread Starter [iKerrith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ikerrith/)
* (@ikerrith)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743303)
* Hi uggledad,
* Thanks for the thorough reply. I’ll try your suggestions.
* What do you mean by “The net option in FireBug shows a 1.9S wait while looking
for the OpenSans-Regulat.ttf and it got a 404 Not Found”?
* and plugin 0- ?
* Much appreciation,
* Kerry
* [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
* (@juggledad)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743304)
* 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
* Thread Starter [iKerrith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ikerrith/)
* (@ikerrith)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743315)
* Hi juggledad,
* 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?
* This is what I’m using on [gab1](http://www.comcom121.org/deargabby/2014/12/29/gab1/),
* “[ezcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]
**Dear
Ann Landers:** I separated from …
* Six months ago, I became involved with a man at
work. He is kind and sweet, and is willing …”
* I don’t know what to insert between the id “” or class=”” or the style=”” quotation
marks.
* Kerry
* [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
* (@juggledad)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743324)
* > 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?
* Thread Starter [iKerrith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ikerrith/)
* (@ikerrith)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743398)
* Hi juggledad,
* I deleted the GSpeech reading plugin and its code on all the posts.
* I’ll check the css and see if the OpenSans-Regulat.ttf is there.
* Thanks muchly,
* Kerry
* [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
* (@juggledad)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743402)
* Like I said, the font is being referenced by the CSS in teh theme. That’s why
you should contact the theme author.
* Thread Starter [iKerrith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ikerrith/)
* (@ikerrith)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743415)
* Thanks juggledad. I changed it to Arial, we’ll see what happens.
* Kerry
* [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
* (@juggledad)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743434)
* 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](http://www.comcom121.org/deargabby/wp-content/themes/side-out/fonts/Arial)
which doesn’t exist.
* Thread Starter [iKerrith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ikerrith/)
* (@ikerrith)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743459)
* Hi juggledad,
* Thanks for checking.
* So, I just copied the Arial font family from Windows8.1 > Control Panel > Fonts
> Arial (the whole Arial font family) and then created a sideout/fonts/Arial
directory and uploaded Arial to— [http://www.comcom121.org/deargabby/wp-content/themes/side-out/fonts/Arial](http://www.comcom121.org/deargabby/wp-content/themes/side-out/fonts/Arial).
* What do you do to get the 404 error? I use IE, FF, Opera, and Google Chrome to
test my work and I’m not getting 404’s.
* Kerry
* [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
* (@juggledad)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743463)
* 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….
* Thread Starter [iKerrith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ikerrith/)
* (@ikerrith)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743464)
* Hi juggledad,
* I sure appreciate your patience.
* How do I check load time speed?
* I have five plugins (all activated):
Akismet Easy Columns Jetpack by WordPress.
com WP Shortcode by MyThemeShop (no idea how to use this) WP Super Cache (no
idea how to use this)
* Thank you,
* Kerry
* [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
* (@juggledad)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743466)
* 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.
* Thread Starter [iKerrith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ikerrith/)
* (@ikerrith)
* [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-appearing-slowly/#post-5743467)
* Wow, Firebug sure is amazing. It’s a bit complicated for me.
* The bottom reads 5.1s (onload: 4.31s).
* Unless you can see something serious I think I’ll let it be.
* Much appreciation,
* Kerry
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