This morning we noticed our newspaper themed wordpress site is really slow (like 15+ seconden to even see the frontpage)
We changed nothing and it was working just fine. I asked our server guys to check the server but every other site hosted is fast as usual also no DB problems or delays.
Also when I switched themes to Twenty Fifteen it loads really fast again.
the website is http://www.autismestart.nl
I use WordPress 4.1.1
Newspaper: 4.6.1
I tried:
disable all plugins: no difference
switch theme: fast again
looked at other newspaper wordpress sites (not mine): a bit slow but I have no reference (never looked at them before)
Looking in Chrome using web developertools, and got these results:
Stalled: 1.543ms
Proxy negotiaton: 0.074ms
Request send: 0.074ms
Wating (TTFB) 16.71s (!!)
content download: 16.600ms
total: 16.73s (!!)
Anyone a idea? because this slowness will kill my Google ranking which I just started to get
Hi,
I have tested your site with google page speed: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autismestart.nl%2F&tab=desktop You can see that also your server cause this issue.
For image compression we recommend a plugin like Smush it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/ or add the following code in functions.php:
add_filter( 'jpeg_quality', create_function('', 'return 50;' ) );
This will compress all images to 50%, you can change that value, after you add the code you have to regenerate all thumbs – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/
Please set Leverage browser caching using this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ and you can disable page views from modules it may also help: http://screencast.com/t/TgDSU6xCA
Hope this helps!
