Website is loading slowly

Hello,

I don’t know why this is happening, but website is very slow. I’m not using lots of plugins and I have deleted most of them, but still, problem continues to exist.

You can see even in GTMetrix that it is very slow, sometimes it even takes 7 seconds to start loading website: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.ideahub.ge/BnU0bS4A

and here are results of your demo websites analysis:
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/demo.tagdiv.com/hNttQgev

You can see that they are totally different.

Can you please somehow help me to fix this. And please don’t tell me to enable Cache, as I tried it and everything messed up for visitors.

Sorry, but you should without question use a cache. It will only mess things up for your visitors if you use the wrong settings. W3 Total Cache without minifying javascript or CSS is safe. This issue has been brought up and this solution recommended in Newspaper’s docs and the forum many times. 🙂 It will pretty much do a page cache, expiry headers, and basic (but highly necessary) compression.

W3 Total Cache can also be combined with a service like Cloudflare, which serves your site to visitors from its servers rather than your own. It speeds up delivery of some resources and helps with your server response time. (Pagespeed reports that your server responded in a massive 3.7 seconds.) I use this setup too.

A plugin like EWWW Image Optimizer will help with your optimize images problem. Note that you’ll want to do a one-time bulk optimization of your media library, which will take a long time, but after that it should just optimize on upload.

Feel free to ask for more details on the above steps. Once you try all of them, check your scores again. They will have greatly improved.

These are the steps that require little or no technical knowledge, but uf you still need more, start reading the excellent posts by Christopher Simmons and others in the sticky Pagespeed thread.

Best of luck!

I tried using W3 Total Cache with default settings and my customers responded, that they were viewing totally different videos than I had placed. I received such 10 messages and immediately removed that plugin.

Yes, that’s to be expected, because the default settings are not what you want. Those include minifying CSS and JS, which will not work with this theme. Please read the docs or the dozens of forum posts on the subject… The plugin and the theme are not incompatible, and if you want the speed you’re looking for, you need a caching plugin!

There are other plugins that don’t even have options for minifying, such as WP Super Cache. But they’ll have other kinks to work out…

I installed W3 Cache and scanned website with P3 – Plugin Performance Profiler and received these results:
http://www.ideahub.ge/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ideahub.ge-performance-scan-results.png

As I see WPML is causing huge delay in loading. Do you have any suggestions about this?