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Problems with site slow on all mac browsers

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  • 21-05-2015 11:37pm
    #1
    Kerry_2008
    Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    First time posting. I have created a web site in wordpress. It's based on the photocrati theme.

    The site renders fine on a windows PC but it's very slow on a mac. On all browsers. I have a MacBook Pro and the issue is in all browsers. I thought it might be the mac itself but have tested it on other macs and have the same problem.

    The site is www.brendanose.com

    Any help is appreciated


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    You're right, very slow on a Mac.

    A few suggestions:

    Run a speed test on GTMetrix.com, fix all the problems highlighted and you should see a significant improvement.
    Use a CDN (cloudflare.com is free).
    Turn off dynamics css generation in Photocrate theme (apparently).
    Talk to the authors of Photocrati, you're not the only one to complain about speed issues.
    Use a WordPress cache plugin
    Try your site with one of the default themes, still slow?


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    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Works fine on Firefox for me.

    Slow on Chrome though, check the developer tools on Chrome and see the network. Not sure what the issue is, but css and js seems to load slowly.


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    devildriver
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭devildriver


    Not sure it's just mac browsers but there's possibly a load order issue that's making it worse on mac.

    Pingdom Tools report is showing it as very slow:

    http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/bc15Vw/http://brendanose.com

    But there's not one resource that seems to be the problem.

    As usual with Wordpress it's a big mess of theme css and various scripts so it's hard to find which one is the actual problem.

    Maybe if you temporarily switch the site to a basic theme and test again GTMetrix or Pingdom and see if you can isolate the problem.


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    Kerry_2008
    Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭Kerry_2008


    Hi all thanks for the advice. I didctge gtmetrix test and a big red flag was to enable gzip compreasion.

    I installed the w3 cache plugin all in ine and changed cache header settings and enabled gzip compression and it seems a lot faster. Thanks for the help


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    devildriver
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭devildriver


    Kerry_2008 wrote: »
    Hi all thanks for the advice. I didctge gtmetrix test and a big red flag was to enable gzip compreasion.

    I installed the w3 cache plugin all in ine and changed cache header settings and enabled gzip compression and it seems a lot faster. Thanks for the help

    Yes that has helped a bit.

    I would still keep working on optimising the site though. Cloudflare will give the site a significant boost.


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