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Hi,
My site loads very slow. So, I’ve contacted my hoster and asked him to move the entire site to a new server. Now the site is moved, I had expected a better perfomance, but it didn’t help a thing. It’s still very slow. See http://bit.ly/1fZYAeO When I upload for excample some images, it’s ligtning fast, but the frontend…
Searching at your site I’va installed Better WordPress Minify and wp-super-cache. This also didn’t help a thing. It’s still very slow.
I hope you have any tips left for me to increase the loading speed.Regards,
Erwin
Hi,
I was at my brother’s place this afternoon. So I thought I test there also. Over there the speed is also slow, have to wait for a long time.
Now back at home I have timed the loadtime a couple of times for the homepage. This takes average 17 seconds. That’s in my opinioon very slow.
When I enter a site that loads so slow, I’m gone, or I really do need the given information.
What’s the loadtime at your places?Hey!
Your site loaded fast on my end, i also tested here (result was 2.92s):
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/?testurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhetzeggelt.nl%2Fpages%2F#!/cwMT0x/http://hetzeggelt.nl/pages/Were you using the same computer?
Regards,
JosueHey.
No, I was using another computer. Tried different browsers also. In IE there was no layerslider. I’m standard using firefox. There is the slider. On my iPhone I also don’t see the slider, but the site loads fast. So I have used a easy-slider instead. Now the site loads really fast! That means that the layerslider-wp is the bad guy!
Except the page from menu-item extra – foto’s that one loads still slow, the foto-page from there also loads slow. The page http://bit.ly/SBTCQ0 is really weird. This one loads real slow and there’s no content in it. Strange….
Any clue’s?
Regards,
Erwin
for me it’s under 1.5 seconds.
You can use the firefox developer tools for a network analisis to see if everything loads slow or if there is a certain file and stuff like that.
But i dont think it’s a theme related problemHey!
Thank you for the update.
Like anyone else is saying here, the site loads fine on my end even though I have the suckiest internet connection that you can ever imagine. You might want to optimize the website a bit. Usually minimizing the image file sizes and number of plugins that you install will greatly improve the performance. 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
2. Once all images are on the website optimize with ewww optimizer plugin twice 1hr 10mins apart.
3. Install wp-smushit run once to remove jpeg extra data, then uninstall.
4. Use BWP minify plugin to minify scripts and stylesheets.
5. Install WP-Super cache, select all recommended settings.
6. Logout your website, visit every page at least once to create super cache files.
7. Join Cloudflare setup your website on their CDN, Choose options: Full CDN Optimisation save then activate purge files. once done log out.
8. Have a cup of coffee.
9. Visit your site after 20 minutes or so.
10. Don’t forget to smile.I hope that helps.
Regards,
IsmaelHey Ismael,
Thank you for the tips! I’ve bin experiencing with some of it. Couldn’t use the cdn at this point because there is a live current site installed also. Will try this later. But it does have effect on the speed.
It’s interesting to read that images should always be optimized, I do this all the time. But I had a discussion wuith a guy who places photo’s on the live-site, he also has his own hosting-company, but he put’s bulk-images from 1 till 2 mb!
A thing what doesn’t work perfect, are teh minimising tools. The javascripts wont quite survive. My fancy-box doesn’t work anymore and a google map doesn’t load. There are a couple of strange things. I think I’m starting all over with a clean site and database.Another question, related, I saw that from every image I upload, there will be 15 copies generated in diverse reslutions. Is this a theme thing? I’m gonig to upload a few thousand photo’s and replace them once in a while. This will cost a lot of space. Images are also just in the library. Should I consider using nextgen or something like that?
Regards,
Erwin
Hi!
Minimizing scripts is always a bit touchy. They need to be done in the correct order and sometimes some scripts just will not minimize without causing issues.
For the WordPress generated images yes, they will always get generated. The theme adds in another group for all of its usages to make the site load a bit faster and WordPress has 2 of its own. Then on top of that plugins may add in their own image sizes to be used as well.
Typically space isn’t an issue these days even with thousands of photos. For example if you had 1000 photos that combined to be 500kb for each ‘group’ of generated thumbnails the total space needed would only be 488mb. So 1.5 gigs of space for a few thousand photos.
Cheers!
DevinHi Devin and al other readers ofcourse,
What your saying makes sense to me, but when I upload 1 image of 200 kb, it turns to a group of 2,1 mb.I think that’s quite a enlargement. And yes hosting is not such a big issue as some time a go, but with 1000 images I’m allready looking at 2gb. Thats a lot. Then I’m not mentioning that I will replace the gallery’s each two weeks or something like that. Image removal from the library is a terrible job, removing them with ftp, doesn’t let the link disappear in the library, so this doesn’t work.
At the end Im looking for a way to load a gallery from his own directory, then I can delete them easily. Next gen does this thing, but they have told me that next gen and enfold is not a very good combination. What’s your experience in this? Or can you recommand another gallery which stores images in own directorys?
Regards,
Erwin
You would just be using NextGen without the theme elements. Kriesi has never added in any further support than the default WordPress support.
I can’t ever agree on space being an issue for anyone these days. You would need to upload 20-30k images to hit most minimum hosting packages caps. Ultimately how you handle storage, images and the like on a site running through thousands of images a month is not something we are really equipped to offer support on nor should you be relying on free theme support for that if its part of a business.
By generating thumbnail images that are at a range of usable sizes you save bandwidth and give your users better load times. Since storage is cheaper than bandwidth most users across the board choose this route. If you want the opposite and want to load a 1500×1500 image into a 100×100 gallery tile you can simply remove the functions from the themes functions.php and the images will not get generated.
If space is the issue, it might be worth looking at other hosting solutions? Most offer unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage now for quite a low cost. It’s worth shopping around if you are on an old package. I’m not about to advertise for anyone but I just halved my webhosting package and got SSD hosting and CloudFlare thrown in for less than £5 a month ;)
I’m building this site not for a large company, but for the primary school of my daughter. I don’t know which budgets schools have in your country’s. Here in the Netherlands they can spend some money, but they really have to watch where they spend it on.
So, they are happy when I can keep the costs as low as possible, but it does have to work fine.
The hosting which I use at this moment gives me 3GB storage and 50 GB datatraffic. On this account there are also 20 emailaccounts, but this doesn’t use much diskspace.The amount of 1000 images are on yearly base, not monthly. It would be really fine when images are stored in its own gallery directory, so it could be removed easily.
I hope that this makes it clear why I choose somethings and why I’m asking those questions. I’m do appreciate it very much the way you’re thinking with me! Thanks a lot! When you have even more suggestions…..
Reagrds,
Erwin
Hey Ermin, sorry I was unable to help there, didn’t realize the specifics. I don’t think our budgets in the UK will be that dissimilar. £60 a year to host a site doesn’t seem an awful lot though – if this is a big concern (which I can understand would be on 3GB), could this not be raised via a fundraiser or something? From what I’ve seen of other similar themes I think this is pretty standard practice what is being done in Enfold. It’s even standard in WordPress to generate several versions of an image.
There is a free plugin for wordpress called replace media, which I use & replaces the images internally – if you use generic names for you galleries image0001 etc, it may help, though I don’t believe it works in batches.
Hey Digilocker, thanks for your reply. Perhaps it could be raised, but I’m already investing a bit of time in it and would like to get it done. Further, I’m also thinking that it’s a normal practisewhat’s done in Enfold. And I’m loving Envold, it’s a beatifull theme which give you lot’s of different layout’s and purposes. I’m going to set it up with nextgen, will see then how it loads.
Thanks to all above!
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