How to up site speed?

Your home page loads about 1.7MB of data with a lot of scripts, so it’s not surprising that your site is slow.

First steps:

(1) Install a caching plugin such as W3 Total Cache. This will compress your CSS and Javascript files.

(2) Use an image optimisation plugin such as EWWW Image Optimizer.

(3) Consider carefully whether you need all of the plugins. For example, you have a slider plugin on your front page, but you only have one image in the slider – so you probably don’t need to load a slider at all.

First off, it looks like you’re loading a single image for your page background and scaling it up inside your HTML. Try using the CSS ‘background’ attribute to do this instead.

The fastest and simplest way to improve performance is to install and configure a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache. This will compress your site and reduce the amount of processing PHP has to do by creating static files for the server to use.

Your site also calls a huge number of external assets like JavaScript files. Minifying these using W3 Total Cache can greatly reduce your load times, by putting these all into a single file. You may also want to look at what assets are being loaded, and whether you need all of them.