Questions About Improving Wordpress Site Speed

by wiseworks

Posted: 12 years ago 10 replies

WEB DESIGN

I'm trying to improve my Wordpress site speed. I have a few questions but first let me tell you what I've done.

1. Reduced plugins
2. Currently running WP Super Cache, WP Widget Cache, WP Smush.It and WP Optimize.
3. Added my site to a CDN.
4. Disabled hotlinking and leeching of content by adding code to htaccess file.
5. Added an expires header to static resources to htaccess file.
6. Turned off pingbacks and trackbacks

Here is what I'm having issues with and can't find any user friendly solutions.

1. Prefer asynchronous resources - This seems to be related to a social media plugin I have.

http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js?ver=3.5.2 synchronously.
http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js?ver=3.5.2 synchronously.
http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js?ver=3.5.2 synchronously.

2. Defer parsing of JavaScript - 204.6KiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering.

3. Add Expires headers - There are 19 static components without a far-future expiration date.

I'm getting all this info from gtmetrix. Any ideas on how to fix these site speed issues?

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iqbal 12 years ago

optimize your images

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yestyle Banned 12 years ago

Optimize images and install cache plugins like w3 total cache or super cache for your wordpress.
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TheContentAuthority 12 years ago

Wiseworks,

You can add expire headers in .htaccess and that should work. Here is a tutorial on how to do that with a wordpress site.

How to Add Far Future Expires Headers to Your WordPress Site | Tips and Tricks

Hope that helps,

Shawn
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blackli0n 12 years ago

Hi Jeff,

I just checked out your site and also ran it through pingdom. The good thing is you have a slim design with minimal images. But your site is still pretty darn slow.

This is what I would do:
- start getting rid of the scripts (they're killing you). That toolbar on the bottom can go. I see an awful lot of scripts loading for such a simple website (shareaholics, pinterest, commentluv, contactform7, etc, etc, etc)
- I'm also seeing a bunch of delicious, twitter, API calls etc. Try disabling the social media plugins from showing on the home-page and see what difference it makes.
- optimize your jpegs for the web, this would make a big difference
- move to VPS hosting. everything runs and loads slower off a shared server. For $20/month, you can get the lowest plan at linode.com which is SO SO SO MUCH BETTER than shared hosting

If you do all these, your issues with #1,2, & 3 become null as the entire site will load so much better. Ultimately, it's better to have only the necessary things loading than to try and optimize a bunch of stuff. Even if you cache and have all those headers, etc, the site will still load slowly for first-time visitors and make a bad impression.
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UMS 12 years ago

Nice to see the first 3 respondents didn't bother to actually read your post.
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dmeirx 12 years ago

did you optimized the graphic size? i didnt see on your list ... it also helps as you know..
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- UMS 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by dmeirx
  
  did you optimized the graphic size? i didnt see on your list ... it also helps as you know..
  
  It was indirectly mentioned.
  
  See WordPress › WP Smush.it « WordPress Plugins
  
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  Stardustpoint 12 years ago
  
  Check your server out?
  
  I seen VPS at Godaddy be really slow!
  
  In fact, I have done everything you have done to a site and still have slow sites.
  
  What is it?
  
  Your scripts are loading slow. I would kill them or find a eliminate them with better strategy.
  
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soniamit 12 years ago

check your website speed with Google webmaster tool.
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BlogDigit 12 years ago

You can integrate Google Page Speed Service (free for now) into your blog. It surely will improves the overall site speed.
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