@Simion do you mind checking my site for the speed as well?
I am trying caching, image optmiziation, minifying css, javascripts, etc. but when a user loads the site it takes at least 30 second for it to load.

Thanks

I tried everything. I believe with the combination of some plugins for caching and image smashing I got the speed a little better. first time load takes 30 sec while second time takes 3 sec. We do have many pictures in the home page so it may be that.

can you suggest a plugin that check for 404 error pages?
Thanks

My site slowed as well after the update. the frond end and the admin dashboard takes longer to load.
I was doing some seo on the previous theme to make it load faster and was doing well but then i updated the theme and now it seems slower.

This is the url http://173.254.28.157/~amerikal/
Can you please check it and if possible point me to what I’m missing to speed it up?

Thanks

Hi Amit,

Great guide.

I tried editing the .htaccess but this is what I see on the current file:
# Use PHP5.6 as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56 .php

# BEGIN WordPress
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php70 .php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /~amerikal/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /~amerikal/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Where should I paste your code?
Should I paste it below the above code or inside it?

Thanks