Slow site. Redirects and other stuff I don’t get.

Hi all,

I’m really hoping someone can advise, point me in the right direction or anything. I’ve been suffering with a really slow website of late. I thought it may be to do with the e-commerce side I’m developing using WooCommerce.

But, as I’ve deactified it along with all related plugins :
WooCommerce
Hyyan WooCommerce Polylang Integration
Boxtal (EnvoiMoinsCher)

And it made no difference I continued to deactify other plugins too in a effort to resolve the problem.

I’ve upgraded my PHP to v7. I’m hosted by 1&1 which to date has been great.

After the upgrade of PHP there was a small improvement but still a loading tim of 17-18 seconds. (using Pingdom & gtmetrix)

Today I installed W3 Total Cache and I’m getting a load tim of loading tim of 11-13 seconds. (using Pingdom & gtmetrix)

With both testers I get messages about “redirects” and on pingdom where the shown the chart I can see very long loading times in 3 instances but, the thing is I don’t know how to correctly interpret and then fix it.

I’m hope someone here can give me some adivice.

My website is :
http://www.thefrenchcandlecompany.com (default French) or
http://www.thefrenchcandlecompany.com/en/home (which incidentially is giving rise the the issues).

From Pingdom tester I get:

Remove the following redirect chain if possible:
http://www.thefrenchcandlecompany.com/
https://www.thefrenchcandlecompany.com/
https://www.thefrenchcandlecompany.com/en/home/

Remove the following redirect chain if possible:
https://www.google-analytics.com/r/collect?v=1& … 2.1487763566&tid=UA-60732753-1&_r=1&z=1576004914
https://stats.g.doubleclick.net/r/collect?v=1&a … 392.1487763566&jid=939860457&_v=j47&z=1576004914

Remove the following redirect chain if possible:
https://www.thefrenchcandlecompany.com/en/home/ … https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js%E2%80%99
https://www.thefrenchcandlecompany.com/en/home/ … 9https:/www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js%E2%80%99

And I get slow loading from this:

https://www.thefrenchcandlecompany.com/en/home/%E2%80%99https:/www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js%E2%80%99

And…..

<https://www.thefrenchcandlecompany.com/wp-json/&gt;; rel=”https://api.w.org/&#8221;, <https://www.thefrenchcandlecompany.com/&gt;; rel=shortlink

I simmply don’t know what this all referes to. I do of course have the google analytics code in my theme (Divi) integration along with the reference for the recaptcha as I use it in the Contactforms7 but why would it be causing and issue and redirects.

In anticipation of some advice. Thank you.