Avoiding redirects

  • Resolved kmam

    (@kmammasis)


    5 years ago

    Hello,
    I am in the process of speed optimizing my website. I have used varios plugins but at the moment I am feeling confident with LiteSpeed. After various tunings that fall beyond the scope of this message, I have managed to achieve some decent speed, however, I believe that it can get better.

    I am using GMetrix to assess the speed and here is where my problem lies. In the Waterfall section of GMetrix, I can see all process and the order at which they are executed. There is also a warning in YSLOW to avoid redirect links.

    What I see in the waterfall section: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/hR7faTnt
    is that the page is initially loaded @ ofdreamsandknowledge.gr and subsequently it loads @ ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/en. I think this is not right and I would appreciate anyone’s insight on how to correct this problem.

    Later on in the same list, we see another redirect: https://www.ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/logo-watermark.png?id=6521
    once more I am not sure how to get rid of this as well. On the 4th row before the end of the waterfall list, it seems to reload the original page ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/

    I am not a GMetrix maniac or trying to achieve 100% in every sector, however I feel that in this instance the GMetrix tool is correct. Please correct me.

    I would appreciate anyone’s advice.
    Thank you very much
    Kind Regards,
    Konstantinos

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  • Plugin Support qtwrk

    (@qtwrk)

    Hi,

    root@test2:~# curl -I -XGET https://www.ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/logo-watermark.png?id=6521
HTTP/2 301 
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
set-cookie: PHPSESSID=lhon3gsuecpkcj4a28vdi7iapp; path=/
expires: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:31:20 GMT
cache-control: max-age=3600,“public, no-transform, must-revalidate”
x-redirect-by: WordPress
location: https://www.ofdreamsandknowledge.gr
x-litespeed-cache-control: no-cache
content-length: 0
date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:31:20 GMT
server: LiteSpeed
x-powered-by: PleskLin
last-modified: “Mon, 1 Oct 2018 10:10:10 GMT”
alt-svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="35,39,43,44"

    x-redirect-by: WordPress –> this means something in your WP, probably a plugin related to water mark , that sends the redirection.

    Actually I think in this case there is nothing LSCWP can do , you need to fix the root cause why it sends redirection.

    I also noticed your Plesk server doesn’t have have cache root set up , which you are basically running on dynamic page instead of cached page, please check this wiki for set up cache root.

    Best regards,

    Thread Starter kmam

    (@kmammasis)

    You are right. The first entry 302 error (https://www.ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/) is triggered by the Polylang plugin, while the 404 is directed by WordPress. Question is how to get rid of both. Where do you start? Deactiving the Polylang plgu in is not an option.
    Thanks

    lechon

    (@lechon)

    @kmammasis

    There is definitely something weird going on with your site redirection.

    You can use the tool below to see if your site is doing additional redirects.
    The tool displays redirects from www and non-www versions of a url using both http and https.

    https://varvy.com/tools/redirects/

    Thread Starter kmam

    (@kmammasis)

    www

    2 Redirect(s)

    https://www.ofdreamsandknowledge.gr
    302 redirect
    https://ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/
    https://ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/
    301 redirect
    https://www.ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/

    Final status code: 200

    __________________________________________
    no www

    2 Redirects

    https://ofdreamsandknowledge.gr
    302 redirect
    https://ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/
    https://ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/
    301 redirect
    https://www.ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/

    Final status code: 200

    _________________________________________________
    www (https)

    No redirect

    Final status code: 200
    ___________________________________________________
    no www (https)

    1 Redirect(s)

    https://ofdreamsandknowledge.gr
    301 redirect
    https://www.ofdreamsandknowledge.gr/

    Final status code: 200

    Yes, it is redirecting. I am trying to figure out how to remove these unnecessary redirects. Thanks

    Plugin Support qtwrk

    (@qtwrk)

    Hi,

    In your case if you want to force to use www domain or root domain , then this redirection is must-have.

    some of your redirection are done in 2 redirections , try minimize them into only 1 redirections with a proper rewrite rule.

    Best regards,

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