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  • February 26, 2014 at 5:35 am #229429
    davidrk

    I’m having issues with a slow website load time. After installing W3 Total Cache there doesn’t appear to be any improvement, and I’ve in fact had to disable all Minify settings as it more than doubled the load time for some reason. W3 Total Cache is also I believe creating problems when updating pages, causing timeout issues and failing to save.
    Do you have any recommendations about other Cache plugins, or recommended settings for W3TC for your template? Also are there any other measures I can take?
    The main problems relate to:
    Defer Parsing of Javascript
    Leverage Browser Caching
    Enable gzip compression
    Add expires headers
    Make fewer HTTP requests

    The test site can be viewed here.

    Any advice appreciated!
    Thanks

    February 26, 2014 at 9:05 am #229463
    Dude

    Hey davidrk!

    You can try https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/ and https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-minify/ – maybe they can improve the performance a bit. If not you might consider a server/host switch because if the server itself (hardware, number of hosted websites, etc.) is slow you can’t improve the page speed with plugins. Often you even just slow down the website with the plugin because they require even more resources (cpu and ram usage) and then the server response time will be slower.

    Cheers!
    Peter

    February 26, 2014 at 11:36 am #229516
    davidrk

    Than you for the advice.

    Cheers

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