Why is my page soo slow? Installed EWWW cloud and Imsanity, plus cache, but…

  • nellik22

    (@nellik22)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    I first posted this in the themes and templates section, but it seems it belongs here.

    Hi!

    I have a fairy simple (?) portfolio page, but the content is very slow to load. I just installed Imsanity and EWWW Cloud (Cloud because my host does not allow exec().)

    I have activated these, thrown in API-keys and everything. I deleted all my images in the image gallery and uploaded them again so that the plugins should resize them, and put them back on the website…but guess what, it is just as slow. I have testet it on some “how fast is my webpage”sites, and the results where depressing. The address index inevik.no loads fast enough, but inevik.no/foto is a disaster. I know it is probably because of the images, but it is not that many images there. I mean, if it was a blog with several posts…this would never load at all. 12 seconds for 15 images is slow, ringht? Maybe my plugins does not work? Is there any way do diagnose this? I am not a complete rookie, but my knowledge is limited to design and stuff, not site performance… Would be grateful for help!

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  • Colin McDermott

    (@woodsandhillsplc)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    It sounds like you know the answer already…

    Those images are very very big, and there are a LOT of them on the one page. Bearing that in mind, it loaded reasonably fast for me considering how many chunky images you have on the page.

    According to the test I did, there are 13.1 MBs of files on the page. I try to keep my pages to less than 0.5MB where possible.

    https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.inevik.no/M7mMUKlk

    Note, you are loading the HUGE fullsize images. the first one I tested was nearly 2000px across. Try making them smaller.

    Did you actually use Imsanity? You cant just install and forget, you have to set the options (eg max width 800px) then run a bulk optimisation of your site.

    Thread Starter nellik22

    (@nellik22)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, and thanks for your answer!

    Yes, I know the images is the culprit, but as I installed both Imsanity and Ewww, deleted all my images and uploaded them again, I thought the plugins was going to deal with the sizing and stuff when I uploaded it.

    On the Imsanity plugin page, it says: download, activate, and thats all. I know it is possible to change something, but I though that perhaps the default settings would work fine?

    I have also tried to bulk convert, but the plugin said it wasn´t anything to do, so I supposed it had done it already, when I uploaded.

    So: I should change the plugin settings, is that what you say? Is max width 800px a good start? Is that alright, even for a big screen? Yeah, I know..I know way to little about pixels and solutions.

    I am a little surprised that Ewww hasn´t done that much for me either. I have gotten an API key and followed all the videos about settings etc..

    Thank you so much for your help!

    Colin McDermott

    (@woodsandhillsplc)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    My pleasure to help!

    I have two main tips for you. I am not trying to be patronising, but there are some important concepts I wanted to get across:

    1) Never expect a plugin to magically fix your problem, without checking the settings or understanding exactly what is going on.

    2) If you have a page with dozens of very large images on it, optimizing them will help a little, but you will still most likely have a very large page resource size. Again, don’t expect a plugin to magically help.

    Re: Imsanity

    Here is a screenshot of the settings: https://wordpress.org/plugins/imsanity/screenshots/

    Adjust the max width and/or height to an appropriate size. From looking at your page, I am going to guess 830px height will work well, as this seems to be the max size of the height for the images when I tested.

    > I am a little surprised that Ewww hasn´t done that much for me either.

    Ewww can reduce your images sizes by as much as 50% (though for me probably averages around a 10-20% saving), it is an excellent plugin. 10/10.

    If you want to see how powerful it is – deactivate it – and upload a single test image. Then turn it back on again, and optimise the image using Ewww – it will show you how big a saving there was.

    If you have already optimised an image for Web in Photoshop, depending on the quality you set, it might not be able to optimise much futher – eg 10-20%.

    Thread Starter nellik22

    (@nellik22)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi again,

    Yes, I absolutely understand that one has to go to the settings in plugins, but I suppose I thought that was that this time.

    Now I have changed the Imsanity, and then I also used ewww on the newly reducted images. They were optimalized once, but I bulk optimalized them again, and it seems like it worked again, maybe because the newly reducted images was “new” to it.

    Ewww now tells me it has saved me 28 MB! I don´t know why it did not work this well last time (before I changed the Imsanity settings, Ewww had saved me 5MB) but it sure worked now.

    It stills hangs in Safari: it is a white page that lingers for some seconds, but when I tried to test the speed, it looked OK. maybe it is just safari. (Yes, i deleted browser history)

    The trick was, as you said, to change the imsanity settings, and do the ewww thing again. Thank you so much!!!

    I have one more silly question..I signed up for ewww cloud because the regular ewww plugin didnt work with my host. I am now paying for each image, and since wordpress is making 4x of everything, that means 200 when i originally altered 50. Here´s hoping the bill won´t be too big! Anyway, on the plugin settings on my dashboard, it stands:

    Cloud optimization API Key: Verified, optimized 192 images, usage will reset in 30 days.

    What does this mean? That the images go back to original in 30 days?

    Thank you SO much for your help!

    Colin McDermott

    (@woodsandhillsplc)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi! Glad you got it all sorted! 🙂

    Re your question, I’m not 100% sure but I guess it is probably just a stats/dashboard thing – so they can keep you up to date with your monthly usage.

    Speak to your host, they may be able to make some tweaks to allow you to use Ewww self hosted, you never know. Or perhaps you can install in somewhere else, and then copy the images over.

    I use TinyPNG and TinyJPG a lot for indivudual/small batches of images, they are both free and very powerful! Especially PNGs.

    Good luck!

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