lisa
(@contentiskey)
suggestions to check….
slow webhosting?
installed plugins using alot of resources?
loading many fonts?
The site itself seems to be very well optimised. I would have a word with the hosting company as it is taking 6-8 seconds before any files begin to load.
Thanks both so far. Contentiskey I have more websites with the same host and has exactly the same contract. This website is a wordpress and the Pingdom says it is quicker that 57% of the websites.
The website problem site is slower than 87% of the ‘all’ websites…
lisa
(@contentiskey)
have you tried checking
http://www.webpagetest.org/
to see if it helps to highlight any issues?
I did not make a child theme. I customised the theme in the style.css instead of ajusting it to the custom CSS area of the theme.
Besides that it not a very elegant wya to do it the way I did it .. could this be the reason the site is that slow .. ?
lisa
(@contentiskey)
not making a child theme does not really hurt the performance but can hurt if you need to update theme for any reason. you will lose all of your changes.
how many custom fonts are you using?
4 different custom fonts ..
lisa
(@contentiskey)
do you think the # of fonts might be creating some slowness?
how are you calling each font?
with the Google fonts plugin and some in the CSS .. What do you mean by the # of the font .. sorry I’m not that developed
lisa
(@contentiskey)
you mentioned you have 4 custom fonts in use on the website.
sometimes, use of custom fonts can contribute to the slowness of website…which is the original issue you asked about.
i am suggesting that the number of fonts in use MIGHT be making it seem to respond slow.
Yourtheme is divi version 2.0, but the latest version is 2.2 and your WordPress is 3.9.3 but the current version is 4.0.1, so consider updating.
The console (Chrome: control-shift-j) is showing several javascript errors along the lines of “jquery is not defined”, yet jquery is loaded at line 43. Although its the latest version of jquery, I wonder if it is not the right version for your theme. Try deactivating the jquery-updater plugin.
The first 12 lines of /themes/divi/style.css contains non-css which is causing a parse error. Best to make a child theme and put your custom css in there. /themes/divi/style.css will be overwritten by theme updates.
Might be worth trying this plugin to see if it can identify one that is particularly slow to load:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/
Can’t say if any of these will make the site faster, but it will have a better chance.
