Building First Website – Load times becoming slower

  • Hi all. New to WordPress, but coming along pretty good. Question: My first few pages within the website were loading very fast. As I continue to build my site, load times are dramatically dropping. I do not have alot of content yet, so I’m looking for answers as to what I can check or what I can do. I’ve checked the speed on several computers – in the home and at work and at a friends. Same response. I checked speed at https://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ and the results came back that my site loads 90% lower than other sites. Took 12 seconds.

    Any direction would be greatly appreciated! I’m learning as I go.

    My site is: https://www.ofica.org

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  • Link is not working for your website

    -You could be running too many plug-ins

    -Plug-ins could be interfering with each other / not running correctly beside each other

    -Add plug-in – wp super cache and wp minify to help speed things up

    -compress images

    use this site to help find problems with site as well – https://validator.w3.org/

    Thread Starter krufruf

    (@krufruf)

    sorry… link is https://www.ofcia.org

    I don’t think I have too many plug ins:
    1.Black Studio TinyMCE Widget
    2.Custom sidebars
    3.Easing Slider “Lite”
    4.Contact Form 7
    5.NextGEN Gallery

    I will add the super cache and wp minify to see if that helps.

    My images are “crunched” when I upload them to the media section of wordpress. Do I need to compress them further? (Sorry – I really am a newbie.)

    Thanks for advice. ??

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