My site loads pretty well but if you look at the waterfall chart from WebPageTest, you can see that Newspaper.woff and Newspaper load relatively much slower than other elements on my site.
I understand caching, minification, defering JS, etc. concepts for general page speed optimization. I have gzip enabled, caching, CloudFlare, WP-Rocket, minification, etc. etc. etc. so please don’t refer me to a general post on how to speed up a website.
What I need to know what is specific to these 2 files that causes them to load slower than the others? ….and how can I get then to load faster?
Here’s the page tested
https://www.interestinganswers.com/culture/where-do-the-easter-bunny-and-easter-eggs-come-from/
Here’s the WebPageTest waterfall:
http://prntscr.com/ngt5rl
Thanks
Hi,
From what I can see in your screenshot -> https://www.screencast.com/t/AiuTtvgm you get an 404 on these files, please make sure that those files are load.
Also I’ll make some more deep investigations and I’ll try to provide you an answer to load faster the woff and ttf files.
Thank you for your understanding!
Thanks for response. Why are they loading if they are 404?
Hi,
Is possible to have the 404 status only on some posts/pages.
I’ve made a quick search on your website, and this is working normally, also you do not have any errors in console.
Thanks.
I appreciate it and I understand 404 pages and that they can exist. My specific question is, why is the theme loading links to 404 pages? These are specific to the theme so that is why I’m asking here. thank you
BTW, You can see here how these 2 items are lagging my site. I understand that my page is fast but I want to make it as fast as possible.
Hi,
This issue you are having is quite unusual. While the theme font is loading and working
– http://prntscr.com/nkyi14
There are also another couple of attempts to load the font from a location which should not exist – http://prntscr.com/nkyimn seems to look for them in a css folder
– https://www.interestinganswers.com/css/images/icons/newspaper.woff?14 and this provides a 404.
From what I can see these calls originate from here – http://prntscr.com/nkymf2 from a rocket critical CSS, don’t know exactly what that is. Could be the cloudflare rocket loader, try disabling it and then clear all caches and check again
– https://documentation.deadlinefunnel.com/article/511-how-to-disable-cloudflare-rocket-loader
Thanks
Thank you for the detailed response. You very well could be right. This gives me a few leads to chase down. I will report back and let you know.
Hi Ryansmccain,
I have been struggling to improve my site speed, could you link me to a decent guide? Your site is quick!
This is good. https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/speeding-up-wordpress/
I’m no expert in this field but I kind of know what I’m doing. Shoot me an email and I’ll see if I can come up with suggestions for you.
