Leveraging browser caching / Slow first load

  • Hello forum

    I’m experiencing very slow load times on my websites homepage:

    https://www.glassgarden.co.za – Hosted by Godaddy cPanel

    I’ve tried a few tricks this week including Hearbeat API controller plugin, which I have recently disabled, as well as WP Super Cache, which I also didn’t find helped and have disabled for the time being.

    Pingdom recommends that I need to “leverage browser caching” which I’ve done through adding that code into the htaccess file, but still this does not seem to make much of a difference, (I assume this wont affect the first load of the site anyway, which is where my concern lies)

    I’m recording up to 12 seconds at worst to load homepage slider images..

    This is unacceptable,

    Any ideas on what I could try to improve this?

    I’m using WooCommerce theme called Peddlar, with the built in slider, it used to be a little slow, but now with reduced images sizes to around 300kb, (3 of them) it is still much too slow.

    Please help!

    Thanks,

    Lance

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  • try to compress css/javascrips and use tinypng + wp.smush.it with your photos

    see your result here : https://tools.quicksprout.com/analyze/www.glassgarden.co.za

    Make fewer HTTP requests

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    I assume you are using a GD shared hosting plan. They tend to load up servers to barely tolerable levels. You may have the misfortune of being placed on a sever co-habited by heavily trafficked sites. You might try complaining about the performance and ask to be moved to a different server. Things might improve, or get worse.

    You may need to upgrade your plan or move to a host who do not overload their servers. Of course try everything else you can first, but it may come to this.

    Thread Starter LanceSurgeGG

    (@lancesurgegg)

    Thanks for the replies,

    our photo’s are quite small and don’t seem to be the cause of these issues.

    (more time loading admin-ajax.php than the 3 pics – sometimes)

    I’m going to speak with Godaddy support, maybe they are able to optimize the server choice for access from South Africa, where our users are accessing from.

    As of yet, unsolved and not very hopeful.

    Upgrading may be worth a try, as we’re on the entry level at the moment.

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