Very slow website

The slowness is due to the Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest boxes at the bottom of your homepage. I used Adblock to block the loading of those boxes, and your site loaded almost instantly.

Halloooooooooooo! So if I move those boxes for example to a page the website will be faster?

Best regards,

Irina Sopas

If you move the three boxes to a page, then that page will be slow, but your homepage should load much faster.

Hum… that I can accept and live with, just ONE PAGE SLOW LOLOL.

I’m having complaints about all pages being slow, so it is because those boxes are being load everytime in all pages, right? I removed them.

Can you test it, please? See if the problem is solved? Not only the homepage. Because my internet is good and for me the website loads just fine. I made a test https://www.dareboost.com/en/report/d_5cc0c660e9679058df5cb362 it is giving me almost the same values than before I remove the boxes.

Hugs,

Irina

Do you know why my images don’t load all at once? My friend made a video so I can see whats is happening, that is the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ4drqlBWcQ

Kisses

Most likely because your hosting can’t serve them fast enough. Also, apart from agreeing with Dion Designs about the communication with Facebook that slows down the loading, you can try to install and set up some caching/minification plugin, if you haven’t done that already and see if the situation gets any better.

I tested your site at GTMetrix and noticed a number of issues.

First, your site is at https://irinasopas.com and not https://www.irinasopas.com. Please make sure you use the corrrect URL for your site!

Second, your homepage is still loading the Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest javascript assets even though they are no longer needed. You’ll need to find where those are being loaded, and remove them on every page except the one with the boxes. This will make a huge difference in page load times.

Third, you have some images in your slider that are MUCH too large. Give some thought to resizing them since loading the oversized images is wasting 350KB of bandwidth.

Fourth, try deactivating Jetpack and see if that helps. In most cases it does.

Yes, everything @diondesigns said is pretty accurate. However, I am not sure the Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest code is really the cause as I have many clients who have two or all of those on their site and have no speed issues. In my experience slowness is caused by sup-par and/or shared hosting plans. You can offset this by implementing a CDN such as cloudflare and not have to get rid of those boxes from the homepage.

Hop this helps. Once you have found a solution that you are happy with kindly tag the thread as resolved.

Yep, it is not the code itself that’s causing that but the slowness of server that is communicating with those external resources.

Halloooo! I hope you’re all fine.

So sorry about the wrong link. It was autocomplete and should have caught the link before the ssl certificate.

NOWWW… Thanks a lot for the help you’re all giving me because I’m really desperate.

Following your advice

@sinip
When you say caching/minification is like the W3 Total Cache plugin? I have it on my website and I’m using this settings https://themeisle.com/blog/w3-total-cache-settings/

@diondesigns
2. The boxes (facebook etc) code are in the functions. That is why the homepage is still loading the Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest javascript assets??? If don’t how I discover where it is being load?

3. I reduce the best I could the size of the images from slideshow. The backgrounds had at least 1mb. Since I have all original vectors I can work on that in my free time to reduce the size of all website images.

4. I also disabled jetpack. I hate jetpack. The thing is I installed jetpack to get rid of plugins – contact form / cookie notice / simple social media icons. My friend told me a lot of plugins can slow the website. So it is better to reinstall those and get rid of jetpack forever, right?

@binarywc
My cpanel has cloudflare and I’ve an account on it but the website was not active. So I follow the cloudflare instructions and I think it went well:

STATUS ACTIVE: Congratulations! You have successfully activated irinasopas.com. Your site will now receive the benefits of Cloudflare’s performance, security and reliability features. Check out reports of bandwidth saved* and threats blocked on your account Analytics page.

So right now I think I did all you’ve told me, just need to figure out the boxes load, if anyone can help me on that.

I’ll change my site to another hosting plan because a lot of people are telling me that the servers from my hosting are probably the biggest reason for the slowness of my site, but I not understand a thing about it, what kind of service should I look for in the new hosting? I just tell them that I DON’T WANT A sup-par and/or shared hosting plan?

Again thanks for the help you’re giving me. I think the website is better, the images are loading faster. I will wait for your answears. I wish you a nice day.

Hugs for all

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Anonymous User 9824923.

Front-end wise, your site is slow in terms of scripting and rendering. There’s a lot of detail from Chrome’s performance tool and worth exploring once you sort out your server woes
https://snag.gy/shAQpL.jpg

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/evaluate-performance/

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Andrew Nevins.

Hallo @anevins sorry but I’m not a developer I couldn’t understand what you’ve said. Can you please explain it to me? What you mean as slow in terms of script and rendering? My theme as issues?

Best regards,

Irina Sopas

Worth going through the reading material, google say it much better than I could. Only do that after sorting out your server issues.

I was reading now, so the problem turns back to my host-servers? I need to find a better server and than workout those google thing?

Sure start with the easiest problem to solve first. That’s the server issue.