Slower Loading Time Since Update

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Hi Guys & Gals!
Ever since I updated to 8.6 a couple of weeks ago, my site speed has drastically dropped. FoodnService.com
I used to be a 96-98, and am now a 74-76
What happened?

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I don’t know about your installation, but on mine it seems that WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) started hogging more server resources than in the previous version. It worked okay and now, after the update, its queries are sometimes insane. I probably won’t look deeper into it as I’ll eventually ditch it for TD Composer as recommended.

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Hi,


@notageek4u
From what I can see at first glance, you could try and optimize the website more. For example the homepage has 10mb in size, that would be high. Regenerate the thumbnails because it seems some of the thumbnails are not created properly and the full image size is served
https://www.screencast.com/t/DcTg0vMwK
There are many speed guides and tutorials here on the forum that you can follow. Some of them here, but there are many
https://forum.tagdiv.com/cache-plugin-install-and-configure/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/cloudflare-cdn/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/score-100100-pagespeed-with-newspaper-wordpress-theme/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-theme-speedify-your-website/
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/

Thanks

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