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Hi, we have created this e-commerce website http://www.closeoutstreetwear.com to sell our products. The problem is that the website is really very slow to load pages, I tried to compress many images thinking that was the problem but it continues to be slow in loading pages. We installed Wp Fastest cache and configured everything fine (I think), plus Enfold has its own caching system in the “performance” menu, maybe I got something wrong?
I would like to have suggestions to improve the speed of the site that being an e-commerce we are afraid that our potential customers run away from our website because it is slow to view products.
Regards.Fabio
First of all : enable gzip Compression.
https://www.giftofspeed.com/enable-gzip-compression/
Then optimize your images.
There are different ways to do that. I prefer the htaccess method.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.closeoutstreetwear.com/s6i1kHKlThanks for the reply! A question, but doesn’t gzip compression already do the wp fastest cache plugin or in Enfold “performance”?
no – and on wp cache i do not know – but you see on the gtmetrix that it isn’t enabled.
This could save about 80% bandwidth.I added the code in the .htaccess and in fact I increased the speed on Gtmatrix to 52% but I can’t find any changes or speed, the Shop page is always very slow to load all the contents and even the Homepage takes time to be displayed all. Maybe it depends on my internet connection?
Dear Fabio.
– prevent to use shared hosting, 8 or 16 users are mostly ok
– try to use SSD or NVMe SSD hosting
– 1 GB Cache
– Try to find platform with nginx instead APACHE
– Work with WP-Rocket, the only one with best results and works with Enfold perfect. If you deliver worldwide, try to use CDN (also in WP-Rocket available as add-on)I can confirm: it’s very slow servers. Try to always use premium servers if you go forward professionally. All over 2 seconds are too long. Every second, 7% of visitors leave the page.
I can confirn: The waiting time for the first Byte is nearly 2 seconds. Normal and good is 100-300 ms
And: WooCommerce Ajax takes 5 seconds. You can see it in the waterfall diagram
You can check your success:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.closeoutstreetwear.com/uYGpy5Fx
Best
S.
Hi,
@Hokuspocus: Thank you for the recommendations. Much appreciated.
@fabiomagliozzi: According to the testing tool, expiry for site resources are not yet defined and since the server is Apache, you could just copy the snippet from the link below to the .htaccess file.// https://gtmetrix.com/leverage-browser-caching.html
Also, please check the list of images under the Serve scaled images tab and try to resize them manually so that they are only as big as the recommended size. And of course installing a cache and minification plugin should also help.
Best regards,
Ismael
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