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Over the last few weeks my site has been painfully slow – both in the customer area and in the back end when updating and editing – is it just me ?
http://kerioakimaging.com - trying to reopen
http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail ArtI’ve had this constantly when I still was with Bluehost. Especially in the backend it felt like it took a minute to load a page.
Christine I decided to use a UK hosting company and never had any speed issues, their support is very good too, any issues I had were always responded to in minutes, are you using a US host? I use unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ lets you see current conditions for your connection
Strangely enough when I switch browsers the site’s back end speeds up significantly. The backend of wordpress is a VERY heavy load compared to the front end, running quite a few checks and functions (not even Symbio, but just wordpress itself)
The back end is even slower than the front, some pages have been taking over 16 seconds to load. I use Justhost in the US
http://kerioakimaging.com - trying to reopen
http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail ArtI had a chat with bluehost support yesterday about this problem which is also painful for me. What they gave me was this:
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/flashstockphoto.com/u2HZkaIs
To be honest: I don’t know which conclusions I should draw from this. Anyone who can see what the problem is?
@jsfoto wrote:
I had a chat with bluehost support yesterday about this problem which is also painful for me. What they gave me was this:
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/flashstockphoto.com/u2HZkaIs
To be honest: I don’t know which conclusions I should draw from this. Anyone who can see what the problem is?
That page says that it takes (on average) 9.2 seconds to load your home page. That is a long, long time.
It also says that your home page is 2.61 MB. You should try to trim that down a bit.
For comparison, using the same tool, my website takes 3.86 seconds to load (which is still kind of slow) and is 1.66 MB. So my website is 36% smaller and is 238% faster. So in general, it does seem that your web host is slow.
In addition, if you click on the Timeline tab, you will get a breakdown of everything that is loaded. Three things stick out for me. First is that your slideshow images are quite large (in physical size). Second is that it looks like the WordFence plugin is taking a long time (about 4 seconds). Third is that the social media plugin seems to be taking a long time (about 2 seconds).
Thanks a lot for this very detailed answer. Reducing the physical size of the slide show is something I can do. (Although I’m not sure whether this is the reason as all sites are slow not only my homepage with the slide show).
But I have no idea how I could speed up WordFence or the social media plugin.
I tend to assume that it’s bluehost. Would be interesting to hear where others are hosted and what their speed experience is
.It sounds like a few of you might be ready to start using caching. Believe it or not, caching is fairly standard in the world of wordpress. I haven’t been suggesting it too heavily because I don’t want people accidentally caching things like the customer page.
Do you mean using a Plugin like WP Super Cache? Would be great to hear how we could set it up without problems. Are there options to avoid caching the customer page and are there other pages which should be excluded from caching?
Yes – there are options, but its a bit to set up. The issue is that if I suggest it I’ll end up with a forum full of people saying Symbiostock doesn’t work. 🙂
But Super Cache will help you immensely. The trick is to set it up and leave it, which means avoiding maintenancing your site as well, because you have to turn off caching to see CSS changes and such.
I’d suggesting having a whole forum set up for caching alone, and perhaps security plugins. Both of them are needed, but require some knowledge. At this point I’d avoid putting excessive burden on people.
so, Leo’s post reading, i leave it as it is…
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