Hello,
I just spent some money with Bluehost to “optimize” my site. It takes longer than it should to load pages and they have pointed a finger at the theme. Here are their comments:
Reduce server response time -> Your server response time is actually very low. The server only took 254ms to respond to the first request in the final scan included in your post service report. What they are actually looking at is the overall load time of the site, which is greater than 2 seconds. This in and of itself is not a major issue. There are many successful sites that can’t load in faster than 5 seconds. As explained in your report there are several design concerns that are preventing the site from loading in 2 to 3 seconds, and are causing the site to spike in load time up to 10 seconds. These include external requests that can take longer than normal to load and javascript requests that the browser can slow down on. Unfortunately the optimization service is not a design service. What this means is we can’t change the basic way that your site looks and feels from our end as part of the service. We try to compensate for these issues in the settings that we configure on the back end of your site, but some issues are going to need to be looked at by the designer/developer of the site.
Any ideas on what I can do to speed up the site loading?
Also, in the PHP memory allocation, I set to 128 megs before we did any of these tests. Still, the “system status” still says the allocation is at 40megs and should be increased. Seems like there’s a problem, here.
Yes,
you need to spend some time researching how WP works and also hosting, and other speed optimization tricks.
Theme doesn’t control your hosting setup or optimization of your site processes. It’s just a theme. Optimizing WordPress applies to *any* theme sitting on top of WP and PHP.
For example, to increase memory for WP, you have to
a) edit your wp-config.php file to specify the memory
b) specify max RAM in your hosting php.ini setup
(you need to do BOTH)
For best speed, you need to set proper gzip compression, set TTL settings, minimize external element loading (e.g., Jetpack, ads, etc.)
Note there are some resources here to help:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
hope that helps! It’s a process we all end up learning at some point — so be patient, read a lot, and then soldier on ! 🙂
Okay, i was frustrated as you are now.
but here is what worked for me, https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tip-how-to-easily-minify-your-css-without-breaking-your-site/
Just do it and tell me of the speed changes., if it does not work, I am still here to put you through.
Haha Chris, your site which i use as a model is still incredibly faasst!, mine is fast though but not up to 90 yet 🙁
So what am I missing yet?
