Title: Slow website Last modified: March 5, 2017 --- # Slow website * Resolved [jakecawfield](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakecawfield/) * (@jakecawfield) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-website-13/) * _[ Moderator note: [moved to Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/before-posting-in-everything-wordpress/?view=all).]_ * Hi everyone, I am just trying to make my website faster but it takes forever to load the first time on a new computer, after this it is pretty fast. My website is `www.concept8media.com.au` and in the Pingdom speed test, it says my site loads in 2.6 seconds. This is not true. It’s more like 20 seconds the first time you go to it on a uncached computer. I have w3 total cache installed with CloudFlare but am still unsure about my CDN and whether it is working. Also, my web hoster is crazy domains. Please, if you have the time run a Pingdom test on my site and help me make my site faster. Kind Regards, Jake Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-website-13/#post-8875498) * Your biggest problem is the total page size: * [https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.concept8media.com.au/UcjPGYXh](https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.concept8media.com.au/UcjPGYXh) * [https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170305_AX_B30/](https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170305_AX_B30/) * This is why your site may appear to still load just fine on faster connections( 2.8 seconds for myself, 2.6 for Pingdom, and 3.8 for GTmetrix), but not so well on slower connections (20 seconds for yourself and 38.3 for WebPageTest). * Specifically, these three images: * [http://www.concept8media.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/chris-lawton-172561.jpg](http://www.concept8media.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/chris-lawton-172561.jpg)( 6000 x 4000 pixels, 7.1 MB) * [http://www.concept8media.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/clem-onojeghuo-192729.jpg](http://www.concept8media.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/clem-onojeghuo-192729.jpg)( 5400 x 3675 pixels, 6.3 MB) * [http://www.concept8media.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/mario-calvo-355.jpg](http://www.concept8media.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/mario-calvo-355.jpg)( 5340 x 3588 pixels, 4.5 MB) * As far as total data transferred goes, these three imagines represent 82% of your entire site. * You should be able to greatly improve the situation by re-saving the images at a higher compression rate, either with the image editor you use on your own computer, or a plugin like [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/) * Thread Starter [jakecawfield](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakecawfield/) * (@jakecawfield) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-website-13/#post-8875650) * Hi James, I compressed the images using the compress.photos website and I have also use the ewww image optimizer to further compress all of the images on my site, however, it is still slow, any advice? Perhaps would I need to compress the images even more? What size would you say they should be? Thank you so much * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-website-13/#post-8876884) * That’s much better, your site has gone down from 21 MB total size to only 7.76 MB: * [https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.concept8media.com.au/QjCMTcuf](https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.concept8media.com.au/QjCMTcuf) * [https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170305_9B_W0H/](https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170305_9B_W0H/) * The only recommendation I can make beyond that is to just not have such an image heavy site. Your design relies heavily on images though, so if it were me, I’d leave it as-is now. * You’ve improved your site’s overall size and load time by almost 3x. I’d call that win. 🙂 * Thread Starter [jakecawfield](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakecawfield/) * (@jakecawfield) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-website-13/#post-8877751) * Thanks James Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Slow website’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [jakecawfield](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakecawfield/) * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-website-13/#post-8877751) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics