A few weeks ago my Newspaper Theme site starting loading really slowly and sometimes gives “error establishing database errors”.
The site is hosted at hostgator. They suggested optimizing the images so we installed Smash and did a bulk optimization. This resolved the loading issue, but many of the images were made so small they were unusable. As soon as I started to replace the small images with the original ones the loading and crashing problem started again.
Most images are png 1845X1052 and are under 100K each. Within the links on the home pages there are about 120 images. Most are within galleries. The problem is intermittent. Sometimes the site loads fine, sometimes very slowly and other times not at all. Seems to be better after deleting cache, but not every time.
Is it a case of having too many images? I can make the size smaller (H x W) but due to the detail in the charts, I wouldn’t want to make them any smaller than 1200W. I don’t think I can get the kb smaller, since most are around 50 -60K.
Here is a link to the site: mritradingsignals.com
The issue is in Chrome, Firefox and IE. Any help would be appreciated.
Hello lacox702,
Please notice that the speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized -> https://www.screencast.com/t/45GsBcKrI. Notice that is not a simple task and if you do not have any experience in this regard you will do not bring good results for the theme. Also, notice that we have a speed optimization tutorial but this is addressed only to advanced users. So, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ you can increase the page speed loading and if you are not aware of the steps in this regard, please consider hiring a freelancer/developer to help you because the speed optimization services is not covered by our support policy, as you can read here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/support-policy-2/ Check our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/requirements-for-newspaper/ regarding on dedicated server to fit to our requirements. For an example, you should check our demo preview because this website is optimized.
Thanks for your understanding!
