Hi there, I am trying to improve my site response times and the two worst modules are: js_composer and the Newspaper 6 style.css piece. Is there any way to improve those? I read a lot about VC being really slow, is there any way to migrate to any other page builder option? It is taking something like 3 to 4 seconds for them to load, each, but thankfully they have been loading in parallel. Thanks for any help.
Hi,
The Visual Composer plugin is required to customize your pages/posts with theme’s elements and the theme is deigned based on it so you couldn’t use other page builder. Latest version of the VC plugin haven’t been reported as affecting site’s performance anymore.
To improve your server response time you can also try to reduce the number of queries (fewer plugins, fewer blocks on page, reduce the elements which use ajax requests/pagination like mega menus/load more/infinite load), also consider using a cache plugin and to improve the loading speed look the mysql query cache: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-cache.html We also use it on our demo. If you haven’t already, you can try a caching plugin, like WP Super Cache or cloudflare’s CDN.
You can also contact your host provider and let them know about this, they might have specific info on what is the cause of this in your case.
There are many factors which can be taken into consideration concerning server’s response time. You can use google’s improvement recommendation on this: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/Server
Wordpress.org has some optimization tips also: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the message!
