Title: Website speed Load time
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Website speed Load time

 *  Resolved [designeradam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/)
 * (@ajaxouch)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/)
 * I have tried everything in my power to decrease the load time of my website but
   it’s always blocking and I can’t get it below 6 seconds to load.
 * I want 2 seconds or less load time!
 * All my images are optimized to below 50 kb, homepage is less than 500kb and
    
   everything is cached and minified. It appears that even minified, there are multiple
   javascript files that could still be combined.
 * I would use cloudflare but I have ssl on this site and I don’t want to pay a 
   monthly for cloudflare in order to deal with my ssl.
 * Any suggestions on improving load time?

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 *  [rdellconsulting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdellconsulting/)
 * (@rdellconsulting)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5128998)
 * Have tried [P3](https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/) in the past to diagnose
   issues.
 * And on the old post you’ll see I recommended [GTMETRIX ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gtmetrix-for-wordpress/)
   to analyse
 *  Thread Starter [designeradam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/)
 * (@ajaxouch)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129000)
 * Yes, plugins only add 1 second to load time.
 *  Thread Starter [designeradam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/)
 * (@ajaxouch)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129001)
 * I’ve used bwp minify, w3 total cache, super cache, async js css, speed booster
   pack, parallelized image downloads across 4 subdomains, and none of this seems
   to work well for anything.
 * My images take the longest to load, blocking, probably because of the js, regardless
   of the fact that they are about 16kb each, and are each getting called from a
   different hostname.
 * Extremely frustrating.
 *  Thread Starter [designeradam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/)
 * (@ajaxouch)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129002)
 * I’ve also used GTMETRIC, PINGDOM, and PAGESPEED INSIGHTS, and addressed all of
   the problems they show me, and it does no good.
 *  Thread Starter [designeradam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/)
 * (@ajaxouch)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129003)
 * I wouldn’t be this frustrated if I hadn’t exhausted all optimization resources
   in the past 48 hours. Hour upon hours of time wasted.
 * It’s either this theme, or my hosting, but I’ve never had this much trouble with
   my other websites that all load at about 1.88s, so it seems like the theme is
   the culprit.
 *  Thread Starter [designeradam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/)
 * (@ajaxouch)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129004)
 * Using photon through jetpack rather than my own subdomains is the only thing 
   that chopped it down from 6 seconds, to 3, which I was satisfied with, except
   photon resizes images incorrectly so my featured images don’t look right, so 
   I stopped using that as well.
 *  Thread Starter [designeradam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/)
 * (@ajaxouch)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129006)
 * It just seems like something to do with all the javascript. One thing I can say
   is that, using a web speed test like pingdom, will show it at 7.52s or whatever,
   but when actually loading the site in the browser, it “appears” to load around
   4s.
 * Still not good enough though.
 *  [rdellconsulting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdellconsulting/)
 * (@rdellconsulting)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129007)
 * With 560K downloads since release, if it was a Theme issue then I think it may
   have been spotted by now!!
 * Can we see link to site?
 *  Thread Starter [designeradam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/)
 * (@ajaxouch)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129008)
 * [http://designeradam.com](http://designeradam.com)
 *  [ElectricFeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/electricfeet/)
 * (@electricfeet)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129017)
 * I think you’re probably trying too hard with too many plugins. Minifying using
   options from several tools will cause problems. Make sure you only minify with
   one.
 * Strip back to basics; deactivate all plugins; then add them one by one to find
   the culprits.
 * And delete unnecessary plugins. For example, in trying to analyse what might 
   be slowing you down, I note that right-click doesn’t work on your images. Whatever’s
   doing this is either in error or a waste of time. You also seem to be loading
   jquery from Google, which is plain wrong. You should be loading only your own(
   WordPress) jquery. Eliminate any plugins that reload jquery. And you seem to 
   be using google analytics and WP stats. Why both? You’re also loading the Exo
   font. Are you using it anywhere?
 * If you fail to get the speed you want on a WordPress level, contact your host.
   Their job is to serve your pages fast and should be able to help you.
 *  Thread Starter [designeradam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/)
 * (@ajaxouch)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129021)
 * I’m not using plugins at the same time that do the same things, I have just tried
   all options of them.
 * Right click disabled is image protection for my photography.
    Why is loading 
   jquery from google wrong? Doesn’t that save on bandwidth?
 *  [ElectricFeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/electricfeet/)
 * (@electricfeet)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129051)
 * It can cause a lot of problems. Read this article to understand some of the issues:
   [https://pippinsplugins.com/why-loading-your-own-jquery-is-irresponsible/](https://pippinsplugins.com/why-loading-your-own-jquery-is-irresponsible/)
 *  Thread Starter [designeradam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/)
 * (@ajaxouch)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129054)
 * One of my plugins I was testing to improve the load time changed that to googles,
   I don’t know how to change it back.
 *  Theme Author [presscustomizr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikeo/)
 * (@nikeo)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129087)
 * Hi [@ajaxouch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajaxouch/),
    I just checked
   your website : [http://gtmetrix.com/reports/designeradam.com/MXv49GMa](http://gtmetrix.com/reports/designeradam.com/MXv49GMa)
   your website generates a lot of http request to get all the scripts and stylesheets.
   You might want to use a cache plugin to combine and compress all those files 
   into less. A good way to improve the loading time is to activate the browser 
   cache (also well handled by a cache plugin). If you really want to make it even
   faster, use a CDN for your theme and media files. I usually use the [Total Cache plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/).
   It offers all the necessary option to drastically improve your load time. Hope
   this helps!
 *  [Direnk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/direnk/)
 * (@direnk)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-speed-load-time/#post-5129093)
 * I think you should try [Total Cache plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)
   and [MaxCDN](http://www.maxcdn.com).

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