Hi Guys,
I have finished building the site but am having some huge issues with speed.
new.teleread.com
The bench marks say its find but I having upto 20seconds load time.
I have rules out servers as I have tested it on 2 VPNs from different providers and set up by different people both with 8gb of ram.
The site has very few plugins and it seem to speed up when I disable the theme related ones.
When I switch to another theme it seems to be working fine.
Thanks
Josh
See the theme docs under tutorials and best of forum for tips on how to properly optimize your site. Main thing to do first is check memory allocation, clear any old caching, check on TTL and server side gzip/deflate, etc.
Test your site with GTMetrix.com for specific help if you’re unsure how some optimizations work.
Hi Chris,
You can see from https://gtmetrix.com/reports/new.teleread.com/EjAMDIcR that it is loading in 22 seconds is a wait time at first I assumed this was a server issue so I moved the site to a better server but as soon as I switch the theme it loads in 3-5 seconds.
Would greatly appreciate your support
Yes, well if you LOOK at the report
a) you need to optimize some of your images
b) you need to set expiration headers for some of the file types
c) you need to make sure gzip/deflate working for some file types
Did you clear cache from old site before switching to new theme?
Did you regenerate thumbs for new theme?
Did you reset anything loading from CDN?
Best to test with post page vs home page for speed testing.
You need to actually *do* all the fixes outlined on both GTMetrix and Google PageSpeed insights for the problems, like compression, expiration headers, etc.
Sorry Chris,
I had disable all my plugins to see what effect it has on speed.
As you can see from http://imgur.com/u71Q8da my:
PageSpeed Score is 96%
YSlow Score is 86%
This should mean that the site loads well however is 20+
When I use a different theme it loads in under a few seconds
Regardless; not all themes are the same. Some themes are just text, like the default ones with WP; some include complex page builders like Visual Composer. If your theme has 5 options it doesn’t need much horsepower, with 50 options it does.
Only you can optimize all the problems with your site from the GTmetrix and Pagespeed Insights reports. You’ll have same issue with any big complex theme like this.
But once you optimize your site, it works great.
20 sec page load is an issue with all the problems listed which impact how “fast page loads…”
If you’re loading large images vs compressed, if the page elements are not gzip/compressed for browser, it takes 3x as long to load.
You will have to follow the guidelines to optimize your site for ANY complex theme.
Hi Chris,
Just an update it was a speed plugin called autoptermise that was causing the issue.
Site speed is normal
Yay!
Stupid plugin!!! 🙂
