WordPress Loading Slow

[Teg]

So I have a website I’m working on with Wordpress and the site takes forever to load. I am using a pretty minimal theme and using the same hist I’ve used for years. And have never had any issues up til now. Anyone have an ideas on what I could do to boost the loading speed of my site?

 

[Ash]

So I have a website I’m working on with Wordpress and the site takes forever to load. I am using a pretty minimal theme and using the same hist I’ve used for years. And have never had any issues up til now. Anyone have an ideas on what I could do to boost the loading speed of my site?

Did you download any new plugins for the site?

 

[Teg]

Did you download any new plugins for the site?

It’s a completely new site with a purchased theme and about 5 plugins at the moment. I’m not even using all the plugins they suggested because I personally don’t need them and I know that plugins can cause performance issues.

 

[TechWiz18]

I have had issues with themes causing issues with load time on Wordpress but it sounds like you have a theme that's pretty light weight. Who's hosting your site if you don't mind my asking?

 

[overcast]

What are some of your plugins? Also are you using high res mobile images? If yes, then that image size could slow things down. Chrome has one plugin that can show you performance specific points about your site. You may want to use those tools to check loading issues.

 

[Teg]

I have had issues with themes causing issues with load time on Wordpress but it sounds like you have a theme that's pretty light weight. Who's hosting your site if you don't mind my asking?

I use iPage. They’re generally really good and I don’t usually have problems with them. In the past I’ve used WP and WpLMS which is a massive theme with no load issues.

What are some of your plugins? Also are you using high res mobile images? If yes, then that image size could slow things down. Chrome has one plugin that can show you performance specific points about your site. You may want to use those tools to check loading issues.

I’m on the road I will double check the plugins and try to compress the images a bit and see if that helps. Will tell you which plugins are when I am home and able to across that.

 

[Ash]

It’s a completely new site with a purchased theme and about 5 plugins at the moment. I’m not even using all the plugins they suggested because I personally don’t need them and I know that plugins can cause performance issues.

That's weird. I would have said it was your hosting then but you did mention it fine before. Do you mind sharing the URL via PM? Might be worth seeing if it's slow loading for others as well.

 

[Teg]

@Ash done and thanks for taking a look 🙂

 

[Jon]

DNS/Nameservers/Forwards configured correctly? Your host provider? Are you using caching such as W3 Total Cache or WO Rocket? Are you using HTTPS and PHP 7? Is Render-Blocking JavaScript interfering? Are your plugins and WP completed up to date, images compressed, plugins only enabled if in use?

Feel free to share the address if you'd like.

 

[Azareal]

Can you link to the site? It could literally be anything under the Sun.

 

[Teg]

DNS/Nameservers/Forwards configured correctly? Your host provider? Are you using caching such as W3 Total Cache or WO Rocket? Are you using HTTPS and PHP 7? Is Render-Blocking JavaScript interfering? Are your plugins and WP completed up to date, images compressed, plugins only enabled if in use?

Feel free to share the address if you'd like.

Everything is configured correctly, that said https isn’t working at the moment and I’ll be contacting ipage to figure out why. Ipage is the host, I’ve optimized images and the cache plugin as well everything is updated as well.

Can you link to the site? It could literally be anything under the Sun.

Sure guys, the url is http://izimmbiplays.com

 

[Jon]

Sure guys, the url is http://izimmbiplays.com

See here, it may help answer some questions: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http://izimmbiplays.com/

 

[Azareal]

I can tell you precisely why it's so slow. You're transferring over 20MB of data over 500 requests. It would be a miracle if it wasn't slow.

You probably to cut that down to a hundredth of the current request count.
Nginx is also usually faster than Apache and HTTP/2 faster than HTTP/1.1, particularly for a zillion requests.

Right-click > Inspect Element > Network.

 

[Teg]

View attachment 6400 I can tell you precisely why it's so slow. You're transferring over 20MB of data over 500 requests. It would be a miracle if it wasn't slow.

You probably to cut that down to a hundredth of the current request count.
Nginx is also usually faster than Apache and HTTP/2 faster than HTTP/1.1, particularly for a zillion requests.

Right-click > Inspect Element > Network.

Yeah, I compressed all the images both by resaving them at lower qualities and using a plugin to compress the files. How do fix the issues?