Q- Where are you hosting the site and what is the hosting plan that you’re using if it’s OK to ask?

A – I am with OVH, I was on the very cheap shared hosting plan but a few weeks ago I upgraded to the ‘Pro’ plan specifically due to the site being VERRRRY slow. https://www.ovh.co.uk/web-hosting
I am hosting in France, However I have a ‘semi’ – CDN provided by OVH that caches my website in 3 locations.
GeoCache Accelerator on just 3 PoPs: Paris (France), Frankfurt (Germany), Newark (USA).https://www.ovh.co.uk/web-hosting/geocache.xml

I also have Photon – (by Jetpack) activated and it seems like my images are being served by Jet pack
http://i2.wp.com/shutterliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/shutterLIVING.com-Jamie-A-Cowan013.jpg?resize=800%2C533

Above is an example of an image : I think this is being served by the Photon servers.

Q. The site is loading a little bit slow on my end.
A. I know, I’m really annoyed about it. I’m trying EVERYTHING to speed it up.

Q. Usually minimizing the image file sizes
A. I have saved all my image files at a dimension of 800px wide (one of my posts is at 1200px wide) and I have Smushed them all using the Smush-it plugin.

Q. The number of plugins that you install will greatly improve the performance.
A. Plugins I have tried to keep to a minimum: (11 active)

Akismet : Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order : Facebook : iThemes Security : Jetpack : Pinterest “Pin It” Button Pro : Post Types Order : WordPress SEO : WP Smush.it : WP Super Cache : WP Super Cache – Clear all cache

I have run the P3 plugin profile plugin (then deactivated it after using it) and it tells me :

WordPress Plugin Profile Report
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Report date: 26/08/2014
Theme name: unknown
Pages browsed: 18
Avg. load time: 0.0839 sec
Number of plugins: 2
Plugin impact: 854.60% of load time
Avg. plugin time: 0.7167 sec
Avg. core time: 0.0002 sec
Avg. theme time: 0.0000 sec
Avg. mem usage: 6.58 MB
Avg. ticks: 13
Avg. db queries : 80.61
Margin of error : -0.6330 sec

Plugin list:
===========================================
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) – 0.7072 sec – 98.68%
Pinterest “Pin It” Button Pro – 0.0095 sec – 1.32%

So I guess the plugins are not the problem (it only picks up that I’m using 2 plugins? Is this normal. I don’t think they are having too much effect?

These are the things that you can do to optimize the website speed and page load courtesy of the wordpress community:

1. Optimize all images with AI/Photoshop before uploading to server ‘save as web safe’ jpg
A- I did not save as ‘web-safe’ (I will from now on), but I did smush after.

2. Once all images are on the website optimize with ewww optimizer plugin twice 1hr 10mins apart.
A. I did not know about this one – I will research this today, Thanks for the tip.

3. Install wp-smushit run once to remove jpeg extra data, then uninstall.
I have done this (however I do keep it activated, (I will now deactivate it until I need it again)

4. Use BWP minify plugin to minify scripts and stylesheets.
A. I will now do this – thanks for the tip.

5. Install WP-Super cache, select all recommended settings.
A. I have done this already.

6. Logout your website, visit every page at least once to create super cache files.
A. I did not know I needed to do this, Is there anywhere you can recommend reading further about this?

7. Join Cloudflare setup your website on their CDN, Choose options: Full CDN Optimisation save then activate purge files. once done log out.
I used to be with coludflare however I switched to Photon by jetpack TBH I have not seen much of a difference in load times (If it is making a difference I still need to make the site faster).

8. Have a cup of coffee.
A. 2nd cup this morning.

9. Visit your site after 20 minutes or so.
Will do.
10. Don’t forget to smile.

Thanks for your advice: After logging in to OVH I see that my website is 37GB? This to me seems far too big there is no way the core files and my content (with theme) should be this big, is there anything you can recommend to look into this?

Hi Devin,

The strangest thing has happened, I’m not sure why it has happened (something to do with one of the fixes the moderators have given me) but now when you rotate the phone the image stays in the correct place! Yay!

However now the image does not resize? it stays very small and does not fill the screen? Is this something that you can see on your phone? Can i force it to resize to the full screen of the phone?

(Aslo the other thing strange I noticed is the : ‘you may also like’ recommendations have changes shape from rectangular to square, I dont mind it like this but it just seems strange to have changed all of a sudden)

Best Jamie

Resolved – thanks All!

Hi, sorry to be a pain but im still having the rotation issue,

I have tried it from 3 different iphones and they all jump when the phone is rotated.

Can i ask if any of the other Moderators can reproduce this issue, or is it just me?

http://shutterliving.com/homepage/recent-work/

Hi Josue,

Thanks for the tip. (can you see my website correctly, some of the tech support are having difficulty viewing it)?

What im finding after implementing your code is that in ‘Chrome’ I still see the errors happening but after a few seconds the page refreshes and reloads the images correctly.

In Safari there is a bigger problem and the images don’t load at all :https://www.dropbox.com/s/kk1lazi005m7cbq/Safari.PNG

Even after refreshing the browser a few times?

It also seems to slow the loading of the page ? is this possible or is it my imagination?

Thanks for ALL your help I relay do appreciate it, I just hope i can sort out this issue as it gives a poor experience to visitors viewing the page for the first time (when someone returns to the page a second time this issue is not there because of the browser cache)

Hi Devin,

Any ideas why Josue and Yigit cant view my website? I believe there in Lithuania and Peru? I assume you can see it ok (albeit slow)?

Rotation issue:The situation may be exaggerated with posts with more images in, when I look at this page with loads of images (after I wait an hour for it to load) http://shutterliving.com/venice-italy/

When I view via the iPhone the botom image of the set (with chrome and safari) then I turn the phone to landscape the page moves UP a total of 30 images.

I find this problem with all my image sets (posts)

Hmmm, very weird, I looked at my analytics and Im getting visitors from different countries, can I ask where you are based and I can speak to the OVH (my host provider tomorrow) Or anything else you can recommend.

Sorry!?!

It is strange I have cleared my cache however the facebook widget is still showing (may be there is some cache at server level)

I have now removed the widget !

Can I just confirm the theme will only Auto-update if you have created a child theme?

Hi, This code worked perfectly,

However when I load the page only ‘9’ posts show before you have to hit the ‘Load more posts’ button.

Is there any way I can increase this. (When I edit the page and click the ‘masonry grid’ it show that 60 posts should load?)

Also, it is a little odd but it seems to have slowed the site down IE: the page loads much slower now? Could I just be imagining this?

Jamie

PS: With this code can I just replace the word ‘Portrait’ with another category name, IE: I have a new category named ‘Top’ can I replace where it says Portrait in your code with – ‘Top’ I tried and it seems to work, but some times when I refresh it reverts back to the Portrait category.

I have no cache plugins and I have cleared my browser cache?

• This reply was modified 10 years, 3 months ago by Jamie A.

thanks again Peter, I think I will do this one another day but i will mark as resolves as soon as I get the chance to take your advice.

best Jamie

Sorry here you go:

http://shutterliving.com/president-francois-hollande/

Thanks Gunter, it works great! Topic closed !