Woocommerce website with seriously slow loading times.

  • kannyman

    (@ryankanwal)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    I would greatly appreciate some help here.

    Several of my customers have recently reported the painfully slow loading times of my website, particularly the landing page and the main banner…

    http://nourishfoods.co.uk

    I am currently using the storefront theme by woo themes along with the ‘parallax hero’ plugin. The image for the parallax hero is only 3mb in size.

    I also know this is not a hosting issue as I have other sites on my shared hosting plan that load and run perfectly.

    I’m currently on the latest version of WP and always update my plugins to the latest versions.

    Could someone please help me to diagnose what is slowing my website down and how to rectify this issue as I fear this will turn potential new customers away!!!!

    Many thanks in advance.

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  • linux4me2

    (@linux4me2)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    I’d probably start by taking a look at that 3 MB image to see if you can optimize it. A 3 MB image is huge for the web.

    When I run your site through GTMetrix, it doesn’t complain about that image. Your site loads in 1.4s on GTMetrix. I usually like to get my Woocommerce sites loading at below 1.0s.

    It does appear to me to be a caching issue. The first time I load your site on my machine, it takes a couple of seconds to load. Subsequently, after my browser has cached your images, it loads in well under a second. That makes me think that optimizing your images will do the trick.

    I see you’re already using WP Super Cache, which will help loading speed a lot. Configuring it to use ModRewrite (if your server supports it) instead of the default PHP WP Super Cache uses should speed it up some if you haven’t already done that.

    If you can eliminate any plugins, that would be good too.

    Depending on how your host works, it might still be a hosting issue. Some shared hosts are set up to throttle high-traffic sites in order to deal with a higher load from some accounts.

    Thread Starter kannyman

    (@ryankanwal)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Thats’ an amazing response!

    Thanks so much for your advice and I will get to work right away on optimising the image and re-configuring the cache plugin.

    I also agree it most probably is a ‘cache’ issue as it also loads fine on my browser once the pages have been cached.

    Let’s hope I can resolve this with your tips.

    Best Wishes.

    Plugin Support con

    (@conschneider)

    Engineer

    7 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    You can also optimise loading time by disabling non required plugin on a per page basis using Plugin Organizer: I made a video tutorial on how to use it here: http://conschneider.de/how-to-resolve-conflict-using-plugin-organizer/

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