Very Slow Website
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Hi All,
Very new to web design so please go easy.
Basically my sitehttp://www.juniorguides.com.au, is running incredibly slow, and the page size is incredibly large.
I have tried everything from optimizing all of my images, caching everything, reducing Java and heavy css scripts, removing unnecessary/slow plugins, installing a CDN, removing post revisions, changing the theme, removing extra content etc.
I still cannot get my website load time under 5 seconds, I have run through gtMetrix, and pingdom to try and resolve all of the problems one by one but nothing.
I am with goDaddy and now understand that it is simply slow hosting, ( I will change eventually, however charity money is tight) but still the average page load is under 5 seconds.
I cannot get my website anywhere near this, and in reality the 5/6secs load times on pingdom and gtMetrix are more like 30seconds in various browsers.
If anyone has any solutions that would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Very new to web design so please go easy.
Basically my sitehttp://www.juniorguides.com.au, is running incredibly slow, and the page size is incredibly large.
I have tried everything from optimizing all of my images, caching everything, reducing Java and heavy css scripts, removing unnecessary/slow plugins, installing a CDN, removing post revisions, changing the theme, removing extra content etc.
I still cannot get my website load time under 5 seconds, I have run through gtMetrix, and pingdom to try and resolve all of the problems one by one but nothing.
I am with goDaddy and now understand that it is simply slow hosting, ( I will change eventually, however charity money is tight) but still the average page load is under 5 seconds.
I cannot get my website anywhere near this, and in reality the 5/6secs load times on pingdom and gtMetrix are more like 30seconds in various browsers.
If anyone has any solutions that would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for your reply, I appreciate it!
Sorry I came here on a similar thread and didn't realize it was specific for concrete 5.
I think I will have to bite the bullet and change hosting.
Sorry I came here on a similar thread and didn't realize it was specific for concrete 5.
I think I will have to bite the bullet and change hosting.
Your server has a first time byte of 2.5 seconds..
The page starts to render at 3.6 seconds
Is visually complete at 5.1 seconds
Has 30 server requests
Total page load size of 10.34 MBytes
You have some extremely large images that total in excess of 10 MBytes!
Try optimising your images, I have attached a few for you.
Take a look at..
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/180905_6Y_98463820f82a76c6ce08af7...
The page starts to render at 3.6 seconds
Is visually complete at 5.1 seconds
Has 30 server requests
Total page load size of 10.34 MBytes
You have some extremely large images that total in excess of 10 MBytes!
Try optimising your images, I have attached a few for you.
Take a look at..
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/180905_6Y_98463820f82a76c6ce08af7...
Thanks for your reply.
Yes the page size is huge, I have run all of my images through imagify to optimized and even reduced the file size on the computer and re uploaded and optimized again!
Driving me crazy trying to reduce the page size.
I will try again to optimize and other than that I think I will just have to change hosting.
Yes the page size is huge, I have run all of my images through imagify to optimized and even reduced the file size on the computer and re uploaded and optimized again!
Driving me crazy trying to reduce the page size.
I will try again to optimize and other than that I think I will just have to change hosting.
Something is not right here..
I just visited your site and grabbed a copy of the 'Boys-with-Fish' image, its size is 348KB.
I then ran that through Imagify and got an optimised file size of 185KB.
I just visited your site and grabbed a copy of the 'Boys-with-Fish' image, its size is 348KB.
I then ran that through Imagify and got an optimised file size of 185KB.
It seems you are using a shared GoDaddy hosting plan which, as pointed out by @mesuva, is not ideal for good performance
Thanks! I think I have made a bit of a slip up choosing that platform.
Lesson learnt through !
Lesson learnt through !
Do read this post about godaddy and more:
"For those who aren’t aware, Endurance International Group (EIG) is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based company known for its silent takeovers of some of the largest web hosting companies in the industry. To date, EIG has control of over 60 web hosting brands – which include some of the major players in the hosting business, such as HostGator, BlueHost, HostMonster, iPage, FatCow, JustHost, Arvixe, A Small Orange, and HostNine."
https://www.reviewhell.com/blog/endurance-international-group-eig-ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group...
"For those who aren’t aware, Endurance International Group (EIG) is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based company known for its silent takeovers of some of the largest web hosting companies in the industry. To date, EIG has control of over 60 web hosting brands – which include some of the major players in the hosting business, such as HostGator, BlueHost, HostMonster, iPage, FatCow, JustHost, Arvixe, A Small Orange, and HostNine."
https://www.reviewhell.com/blog/endurance-international-group-eig-ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group...
This forum here is specifically to do with the content management system concrete5, so it's not really the audience for specific Wordpress improvements. It sounds like you've been doing all the kinds of typical improvements you'd need to make though.
Sometimes cheaper hosting is just painfully slow, and it can different from server to server - often there really isn't anything you can do but migrate it elsewhere. Also, keep in mind that geographical distances are going to make a difference, I've got a ping (from Australia) of around 250ms, so that's going to be added to all requests as well.