WP Site Speed

  • Resolved hardcab

    (@hardcab)


    11 years, 10 months ago

    Hi guys,

    Well I got most of my problems sorted out regarding my WP website except I can’t seem to sort out load times etc.

    My website is http://www.jdinsurance.com.au

    I have used GTMetrix and get a reading of 70% page speed and 79% YSlow grade.
    http://www.screencast.com/t/gzxkCAPp

    Google page speed gives me 73/100
    http://www.screencast.com/t/2dQnKD9Yz

    and Pingdom gives me 90/100
    http://www.screencast.com/t/fVWZ0SRIwGX

    I have tried enabling gzip in the .htaccess file as suggested but it still says it is not zipped

    In fact I have tried all the suggestions all the way down to the minify html on the GTMetrix and nothing I try seems to work.

    Now I have to say that WP is in it’s own directory NOT the root but in settings it is set to root for the index.php file. I don’t know if that has anything to do with it but as I said I have tried all the suggestions for the last couple of days but cannot get any to make any difference in the analysis.

    Please note that I am new to WP and am doing this as a little project for myslef so please don’t get too technical.

    TIA

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  • Thread Starter hardcab

    (@hardcab)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Also the theme I am using was responsive and worked on my phone but now it has stopped being responsive

    sherban1988

    (@sherban1988)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Try installing a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache, those can really help.

    Thread Starter hardcab

    (@hardcab)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    I have and it screwed up my layout but it also didn’t make that much of a difference. I have tried several caching plugins and none of them have helped.

    What I don’t understand is the changes that I have made to the .htaccess according to the suggestion from Google and GTMetrix have made no difference at all. They still keep saying I need to do those things

    barnez

    (@pidengmor)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    This reports that your site is gzipped:
    http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php

    Pingdom shows that your server is taking about 1-1.5 seconds to respond. There may be a heavy load on your shared hosting. Have you tried using a CDN with Incapsula or CloudFare, or asked your hosts to change server?

    Try compressing some of your images (e.g. your umbrella png is 79 kb which is large)

    Try installing the Wordfence security plugin that has a caching feature.

    barnez

    (@pidengmor)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Although webspeedtest reports that your javascript is not being compressed with gzip. Maybe check the content of your rules in the .htaccess file. I use the following which compresses the js:

    # APACHE COMPRESSION GZIP
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript
</IfModule>

    Thread Starter hardcab

    (@hardcab)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks guys, I have signed up with cloudflare and have compressed images and css and I have managed to get it to a 92/95% on GTMetrix and this is what it shows inwebspeedtest

    barnez

    (@pidengmor)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    That’s looking much better!

    I can still see am occasional 2-3 second delay in your initial server response. This is something you could mention to your hosts, but may just be the result of being hosted on a very busy server. Keep an eye on it, and if there is no improvement it might be worth switching hosts when your renewal comes up.

    Thread Starter hardcab

    (@hardcab)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks I will

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