[Helene Finidori]

Hello,

 

I’ve been told our site commonsabundance.net has high loading times. I’ve had a look on website spead test sites and indeed. I had the google translator that was taking a lot of time, so I deactivated it. But the worst is linked to fonts.googleapis.com that takes 70% of the time! I tried deactivating google analytics, the CK editor @r-a-y’s google docs shortcode, but this did not have much effect. I don’t know where these fonts can come from.

The recommendation I get from the test site is:

• Combine external CSS
• Parallelize downloads across hostnames
• Specify a cache validator
• Leverage browser caching

I’m not sure how I can do this. I’ve been advised to install WP super cache plugin by a friend. The info says it hasn’t been tested for my current version.

Did anyone have to solve this kind of issue? What would be your advice? Are there any recommended cache plugins?

Thanks!

 

• This topic was modified 11 years, 6 months ago by Helene Finidori.

[Matthew K Gold]

Your site loaded quickly for me, but you might go through your plugins
one-by-one to see whether disabling any of them improve load times. I
wonder particularly about the google translator plugin you have at the top
of the page, as well as the share-this plugin.

A caching plugin may help, though it’s possible it might introduce other
confusions (ie., people logging in but still seeing a cached version of a
page that shows them in a non-logged-in state). WP Minify is another
plugin that may help load times, but I’d strongly suggest testing it on a
dev site before introducing it to production, as I’ve seen it cause
problems on a CBOX install.

Finally, if the problem persists, you might also look to see whether you
can increase your server allocation.

[Scott Voth]

Hi Helene – When I view your page source I see that the Supreme Google Webfonts plugin is installed, and when I look at the WordPress repository  I notice that the author notes that it adds 2-3 seconds load time, and that he is working to fix it.  See http://wordpress.org/plugins/supreme-google-webfonts/  He also recommends a better plugin.

Not sure if this is contributing to the issue.  Like Matt, I find that your pages are loading pretty quickly.

[Helene Finidori]

Thanks Scott. I hadn’t seen that one in my plugin list. I deactivated it and times are better.

Thanks Matt. I tried deactivating translate and sharethis, it didn’t change much. The problem was really the fonts that we were not using anyway… I’ll keep in mind server can be optimized too.

• This reply was modified 11 years, 5 months ago by Helene Finidori.

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