Slow loading time
PermalinkI have just run a test at webpagetest.org and there are three major issues.
1) First Byte time - seems to be terrible, how can i improve this?
2)Text Compression - the score was 59/100
8.1 KB total in compressible text, target size = 4.8 KB - potential savings = 3.3 KB
FAILED - (4.8 KB, compressed = 1.5 KB - savings of 3.3 KB) -http://www.cardiganswimmingpool.co.uk/themes/Cardigan%20Swimming%20...
how do i compress the additional 3.3 KB?
3)Caching of static content - score was 0/100
FAILED - (No max-age or expires) -http://www.cardiganswimmingpool.co.uk/favicon.ico...
FAILED - (No max-age or expires) -http://www.cardiganswimmingpool.co.uk/favicon.ico...
FAILED - (No max-age or expires) -http://www.cardiganswimmingpool.co.uk/themes/Cardigan%20Swimming%20...
FAILED - (No max-age or expires) -http://www.cardiganswimmingpool.co.uk/themes/Cardigan%20Swimming%20...
FAILED - (No max-age or expires) -http://www.cardiganswimmingpool.co.uk/themes/Cardigan%20Swimming%20...
FAILED - (No max-age or expires) -http://www.cardiganswimmingpool.co.uk/themes/Cardigan%20Swimming%20...
FAILED - (No max-age or expires) -http://www.cardiganswimmingpool.co.uk/blocks/autonav/templates/Card...
how do i improve this?
Please help, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks for that, it seems to have helped a bit according to the test i just ran. But the main problem for the slow load time appears to be the First Byte Time. Do you have any Ideas on how to improve this?
basic chache = Enabled
Full page caching = Disabled
Full page cache lifetime = Default, 120 minutes
Regarding the other performance enhancements it is worth reading
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/jobs1/seo-and-speed-enhan...
Hope this helps.
i'll try full page caching and the solutions in the other article and let you know how i get on.
Thanks so much for all your help, i've got a few other things that i need to do to help speed it up but you have helped me tremendously.
i haven't looked too deeply into your site but you need to optimize your image file sizes. The back.png file is over 2mb in size. This wouldn't help loading times. I have attached a JPEG of the back image which is now 33k.
Hope this helps a bit.