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How to speed up a really slow site?

  • 27-02-2018 3:05pm
    #1
    dory
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hello all,

    I made a site for a charity I help out with. We've no budget for professional help so it's just me trying my best with a Wordpress template. My main issue is that it's extremely slow to load. The photos and text are very clunky or something.

    The web address is www.providenceeducation.ie

    Anyone have any ideas how to speed it up?
    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,512 ✭✭✭Wheety


    Where is it hosted?


  • #3
    bmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭bmm


    Speed seems fine for me. Wordpress tends to be like that. Have a look at the sizes of all the fotos on the site and make them smaller (not in pixels , in kb) Lots of free programs that will do this.


  • #4
    dory
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭dory


    bmm wrote: »
    Speed seems fine for me. Wordpress tends to be like that. Have a look at the sizes of all the fotos on the site and make them smaller (not in pixels , in kb) Lots of free programs that will do this.

    Perfect thanks. Maybe it's just me so. Always seems to load way slower for me than every other site. And I would expect it to be faster if I return there so often. It's hosting on Hosting Ireland I think it's called.


  • #5
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Home page is 18MB, I'd start looking at the page sizes first.

    Use gtmetrix.com to generate a performance report. Looks like there's some audio/video content that's not helping along with some very large JPEGs.

    Added:

    Facebook plugin slowing things down.
    Instagram plugin slowing things down.

    Hint: look at the waterfall report in gtmetrix, long bars = bad.

    Look at those thumbnails below the banner. 3872px x 2576px sized images being displayed at 246 x 163. Resize the images if you only need small images. Looks like that's an issue across the site, you're essentially loading full size images but displaying them at 8% of their size.


  • #6
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    The logo and the 3 header images on the home page are ridiculously huge. The whole page is 14.6MB in size. Those 4 images account for about 11.5MB. By comparison, the image on the "History of the School" page is 19KB, despite actually having a slightly bigger display size.

    Fix those before you do anything else

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  • #7
    dory
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭dory


    Perfect - thanks! I guess I need to upload smaller sized photos or else try to resize them in wordpress.


  • #8
    shane7
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭shane7


    You can use this website to resize and compress your images.
    http://compressimage.toolur.com/
    Leave all the options at default: Copression method c, image quality 90% and compression quality normal. Then resize your images to the desired size. 
    For example the top 3 images would be set to 265 x 160. When I compressed and resized one of your images the website reduced it from 3.4 MB to 13.4KB. That's a massive difference and when you compress and resize all your images it will make a huge difference to your page load times.


  • #9
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,532 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    Imsanity will reduce the size of images during upload to maximums that you specify.


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