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  • January 8, 2019 at 7:26 pm #1051466
    isaaccolavecchio

    Hi guys!

    I have spent the last couple of days optimizing my site but it is still sluggish. I have updated to the latest version of Enfold and I am running w3 total cache and I have optimized all of my images. Any help would be appreciated

    January 11, 2019 at 7:58 am #1052619
    Ismael

    Hey isaaccolavecchio,

    Thank you for using Enfold.

    I ran a test in the page speed insights and according to the report, the site is slow because of the images and the number of nodes that has to be rendered. You should move some of the products to other pages or make use of the category pages.

    // https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnorthwoodsfalconry.com%2Fproducts%2F&tab=mobile

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    January 14, 2019 at 8:00 pm #1053827
    isaaccolavecchio

    Thanks!

    There are other pages with less products that are slow as well.

    How do I reduce the number of nodes?

    Also the speed test says to consider lazy loading images.

    Is there any way to do that?

    Thanks!

    January 14, 2019 at 8:12 pm #1053832
    isaaccolavecchio

    It also says eliminate render-blocking resources…

    Eliminate render-blocking resources
    1.36 s
    Resources are blocking the first paint of your page. Consider delivering critical JS/CSS inline and deferring all non-critical JS/styles.

    how do i fix that?

    URL
    Size (KB)
    Potential Savings (ms)
    …minify/8c01f.css(northwoodsfalconry.com)
    85 KB
    930 ms
    …minify/889a2.js(northwoodsfalconry.com)

    January 15, 2019 at 12:40 am #1053892
    Ismael

    Hi,

    How do I reduce the number of nodes?

    You can do that by removing some elements, in this case products, from your home page.

    Also the speed test says to consider lazy loading images.

    There are available plugins out there but some of them may not be compatible with the theme.

    Eliminate render-blocking resources

    This should help: https://kriesi.at/archives/scoring-100-100-in-google-pagespeed-insights-gtmetrix-pagespeed-and-yslow

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    January 15, 2019 at 11:55 am #1054068
    isaaccolavecchio

    Okay, I have done some more work on the site and it is getting better but it still scores 73 on the google test and i got at C using GT metrics with a page load time of 17 seconds.

    It says to use a CDN. I’m using Jetpack as a CDN.

    And it also says to use less HTTP requests.

    “This page has 17 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one.

    This page has 5 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.”

    Is there a good plugin for fixing that issue??

    thanks!

    January 17, 2019 at 8:59 am #1054892
    Ismael

    Hi,

    You have to install a cache and a minification plugin to decrease the external http requests. Some cache plugins have a minify feature by default.
    If you don’t want to install a plugin to minify those resources, go to the Enfold > Performance panel and enable the File Compression settings. You should not enable that option if you’re still working on the site.

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    January 17, 2019 at 7:04 pm #1055122
    isaaccolavecchio

    Hi!

    Thank you.

    I got WP Rocket and performance is much better.

    I also discovered that when I am logged into the admin my site is much slower but when logged out it is pretty fast. Not sure why that is but I’m glad it is fast for the rest of the world!

    Thank you for your help.

    January 19, 2019 at 10:22 am #1055822
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Great, glad you got it faster using that plugin. About being logged in; caching plugins usually don’t show cached content for logged in users, you should be able to change that in the settings of the plugins if I’m not mistaken. Though caching for logged in users might not be such a good idea since you might not be able to see your updates unless you clear the cache. When to not use a caching plugin.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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