Title: Speeding up Website
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Speeding up Website

 *  Resolved [endalldisease](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endalldisease/)
 * (@endalldisease)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speeding-up-website/)
 * I’m trying to speed up my website:
    [http://www.EndAllDisease.com](http://www.EndAllDisease.com)
 * It loads very slowly and is not acceptable.
 * One of the things with this template is that ALL of the videos on the homepage
   posts load when you load the homepage.
 * 1. How would I make the site so that it loads the videos only after a person 
   clicks the sample image?
 * I got advice from a friend who said this:
    “The menus don’t all have to be loaded
   before the page is displayed. Put the menus HTML code AFTER the body tag.”
 * 2. Is that good advice? Would it work? If so, how would I do that? What .css 
   sheet would I open and what am I looking for?
 * Thank you so much!
    -Mark

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 *  [triamazikamno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/triamazikamno/)
 * (@triamazikamno)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speeding-up-website/#post-2672895)
 * Hello.
 * The biggest reason of your website being slow is its size. And you can greatly
   reduce it without any content changes and it’s very easy:
 * 1. Turn on gzip compression for html/css/js content. There are plenty of tutorials
   over internet, i.e. [this one](http://howtounix.info/howto/Apache-gzip-compression-with-mod_deflate)
   
   2. Optimize your images! That’s insane having so small image like this [http://www.endalldisease.com/wp-content/themes/video-elements/images/rss.png](http://www.endalldisease.com/wp-content/themes/video-elements/images/rss.png)
   having 50Kb size. You can losslessly optimize it to 1.6Kb. You can use an awesome
   tool from Yahoo to do it: [http://smush.it/](http://smush.it/). Optimize all 
   of your design elements and you’ll save ~300 Kb of page size. 3. Leverage browser
   caching by setting Expires header on the images/css/js, there are also plenty
   of tutorials, you can use [this one](http://howtounix.info/howto/How-to-Leverage-browser-caching)
 *  Thread Starter [endalldisease](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endalldisease/)
 * (@endalldisease)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speeding-up-website/#post-2672940)
 * You just gave me 3 solutions and pointed me in all the right directions to get
   all of them done. I am going to make all 3 fixes to my website, you saved me 
   so much time and stress. I am so thankful. Thank you so much!

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