Massive trouble with website speed!

  • I have spent the last few weeks building up my website, and I recently discovered Google PageSpeed and quicksprout so I have been testing various aspects of the site before properly launching and sinking huge amounts of time and money on this site.

    My speed score was just 64/100, so I did a bit of looking around and W3 Total Cache seemed to be the best option. I have installed it exactly how it instructs and it hasnt had any effect on the speed of the pages at all. I have also added A3 Lazy Load and gzip Ninja Speed Compression and nothing, it is still as slow.

    One of the similar sites to mine in my niche has a load speed of .56 seconds, mine is currently at 7.24 seconds which is ridiculous. Does anyone know why this isnt working for my site?

    I have Lazy Load, I have minify, I have gzip compression but the plugins dont seem to be working, or are not making the site any faster, please help!

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Slowness/high CPU usage could be due to (but not limited to):
    – A poor or memory intensive theme. Switch to the WordPress default theme and test loading time and see if you see a difference. If you do, may be your theme can be re-written to be more efficient.
    – Poor or memory intensive plugins. One by one disable plugins and test loading time and see if you see a difference. If you do, may be that plugin can be re-written to be more efficient.
    – your server is slow (e.g., “process hang”, overload, you get a lot of visitors, other problems, etc.); generally, every inexpensive host out there is slow.
    – lots of images.

    – try installing the Query Monitor plugin and seeing how long the queries are taking.

    Tom Dupuis

    (@tomdupuis)

    Link to your site?

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