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I've created a site using Savoury Child Theme in 2016 for a customer. It has always loaded slowly but recently it has become almost unusable. HOST PAPA tech support made some suggestions for optimisation that I have made. They insist there is no issue at their end but ran a speed text and agreed it is loading very slowly. It is so slow to work in the back end that it took me 5 hours just to make a few simple changes. I've bought a private license for WP Bakery hoping an update of that might help. I've installed and run a plugin to declutter the data base ( WP-Optimize). I'm trying to further reduce the image sizes (lowest optimisation settings in Photoshop). I've removed several of the larger images. And I've installed a plugin to enable caching of the site ( WP Super Cache) Nothing is helping. I don't want to have to rebuild the whole site in another theme but this is ridiculous. It just not workable. Please can you help?
I've created a site using Savoury Child Theme in 2016 for a customer. It has always loaded slowly but recently it has become almost unusable. HOST PAPA tech support made some suggestions for optimisation that I have made. They insist there is no issue at their end but ran a speed text and agreed it is loading very slowly. It is so slow to work in the back end that it took me 5 hours just to make a few simple changes. I've bought a private license for WP Bakery hoping an update of that might help. I've installed and run a plugin to declutter the data base ( WP-Optimize). I'm trying to further reduce the image sizes (lowest optimisation settings in Photoshop). I've removed several of the larger images. And I've installed a plugin to enable caching of the site ( WP Super Cache) Nothing is helping. I don't want to have to rebuild the whole site in another theme but this is ridiculous. It just not workable. Please can you help?
Hello there,
Thanks for writing in!
Here are some general tips for speeding up your website:
a. Consider optimizing your images with some tool like this one:
www.jpegmini.com
b. I see that you have already done it: Also you can install some plugin for cache, like WP Fastest Cache or some other:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
c. Enable gzip compression on your server. You can read more about it here:
http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/enable-compression.html
But it comes down to pasting this code to .htaccess file located in your folder:
<ifModule mod_gzip.c>mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</ifModule>
d. Also check - Leverage browser caching:
http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/leverage-browser-caching.html
e. Use at least PHP 5.6.x or greater in order to process PHP code faster.
g.some of the 3rd party plugins could also cause this issue
h.delete all the pages,images and singles you won't use
Please let us know if there is something else we can do for you!
Thank You,
Norah
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