Loads fine for me, maybe you fixed it by now.
Try this plugin to measure the impact of each plugin that you have:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/
Try these website loading time analyser services:
http://gtmetrix.com/
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
Try a cache plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
Thanks for your reply, lorro!
I am surprised that the website is loading fine for you, because I am still experiencing the same problem on every computer I am testing it. I still have around 5 seconds TTFB (time to first byte) and then another 2 seconds for loading scripts and everything else.
I could use a cache plugin which might help a little bit, but yet I find it very odd that such an light weight website is taking so much time to response. I have uploaded only around 8 products and i am using only around 10 pages. I have uploaded some pictures though, is it possible that those uncompressed pics may cause this terrible loading time?
Also what would happen when I upload a thousand more products?
Well its still fast for me but I’ve used this service:
https://www.dotcom-tools.com/website-speed-test.aspx
to test load times from other locations, and the average is 50 seconds, definitely not good. I used the service for another site on your server and got an average load time of 1 second. That does point towards your WordPress install rather than server or transmission issues.
Your page size is a bit large due to the pictures but not abnormally so and doesn’t explain the 50 seconds. I should leave further products until its been possible to get an improvement.
Did the profiler help focus on the problem plugin? Also, in Chrome developer tools (control-shift-j) there is a timeline feature which may help find out what’s going on.
Other debug options are to disable all plugins except WooCommerce, and try the default theme. The objective is to narrow down the element of your setup that is causing the problem.
P3 showed this:
Total Load Time: 30.5821seconds avg.
Site Load Time: 12.4976seconds avg.
Profile Overhead: 18.0845seconds avg.
Plugin Load Time: 4.1972seconds avg.
Theme Load Time: 3.0944seconds avg.
Core Load Time: 4.5707seconds avg.
Margin of Error: 0.6353seconds avg.
(30.5821 observed, 29.9467 expected)
Visits: 7
Number of PHP ticks: 10,137 calls avg.
Memory Usage: 58.07 MB avg.
MySQL Queries: 40 queries avg.
I disabled all plaugins, except for Woocommerce and I still experienced the delay. I tried switching to the default theme and nothing new happened.
When I check the Chrome Timeline tool I see the same thing every time – ~5 secunds TTFB (Time to first byte) and ~3 more seconds loading time for everything else. I fail to narrow down to any segment, everything I tried seems to be irrelevant for the website performance. My server support failed to find any problem from their side.
I disabled Woocommerce and things seemed to change a bit – now I am waiting 5 to 6 seconds for the page to load instead of 8 to 9.
So, it seems that WP Core is loading for around 4-5 seconds itself.
How much memory do you have allocated to WP? (see Admin page > WooCommerce > System Status > WP Memory Limit) If its 40 MB or even 64 MB, try boosting it to 128Mb.
I already tried that – no change. I found something interesting though:
I thought that a database query loop might be causing this huge TTFB. That’s why i tried Query Monitor – it seems to be a very useful debugging plugin. The test showed that the DB queries are deffinately not a problem, but it also showed that the page size loaded is between 50 and 60 MB. That deffinately would explain the huge loading time. Then i made this test on another WP website with very fast loading time (without Woocommmerce installed). There I found that the loaded Megabytes amount is 25. Yet, the website loads for 1 sec. That makes some doubts about the clue I am after – are the scripts really loading 50-60 mb of information or the problem is not there?
A PHP error is also shown there:
error_reporting 4983
E_ERROR
E_WARNING
E_PARSE
E_CORE_ERROR
E_CORE_WARNING
E_COMPILE_ERROR
E_USER_ERROR
E_USER_WARNING
E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR
E_ALL
Unfortunatelly i don’t know what does that mean and is it relevant in any way?
I’m running short of good ideas. I note that your theme is Fruitful version 2.2.1 but the current version is 2.4.1. Maybe one of the fixes is relevant so consider updating. Take a backup first.
Just for the test I created another wordpress site on my host server. I got the same delay, even though it was just an empty WP installation.
The hosting support replied that there is no problem from their side.
Then I changed my hosting provider, migrated the website and now everything is running smooth. Just couldn’t find the problem.
Thanks, lorro, for the overall support!
