Hi guy,
I set up a new website and it seems to be very slow. I tried to do something on the images and remove all unneccessary things on the site. Can you guy suggest some technique to increase loading speed of a site?
Hi @proscreenrecorder and welcome to the forums.
Surely there are sites online like this one that can give you insights on your site’s performance: https://gtmetrix.com/
I’m not sure how good is that one as I do not use these any often but a bit of research should produce good results.
I do not do Wordpress anymore either but there is a classic problem I can think of about it being slow…
You can move your scripts from the HTML head to right before the end of the body tag. That way the page will not have to wait until all the scripts are loaded to show you the page’s content. Great offenders are requests to external scripts in the head of your page. External means the script is not retrieved from your server but from an external address. Check that they do all still exist, because if they don’t or the requested server is too slow the page will stay there hanging on a white screen until it successfully fetches it or until it decides to give up after a few seconds.
And yes huge images are great offenders too. You should probably be quite alarmed at any image larger than 0.5 - 1Mb. These images can be most surely optimised and reduced and that will have a big impact on the loading time.
Hope the above helps
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Thanks very much for your nice answer. I will take a look!
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Gtmetrix is a good tool that will give you plenty of information about problem areas.
If you can post a link to the site in question we can take a closer look.
Hi. Thanks for your suggestion. Here is my site https://elearningsupporter.com
The site definitely could use some improvement
12 Warnings and 1 Error
https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Felearningsupporter.com%2F
Desktop Needs Work 75/100
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felearningsupporter.com%2F&tab=desktop
Mobile Poor 60/100
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felearningsupporter.com%2F&tab=mobile
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hi, thanks for your time reviewing. I can see that it need improvement because the speed is only 75-77 when i test with pingdom or google speed test. But my concern is “how”. More information, I am not quite good at html5 and code.
Hearing from you!
Here is your GTmetrix report:-
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/elearningsupporter.com/5KLknZBS
It shows the page being 1.55BM which is not hugely over the top by today’s standards, but the load time says 20.2 seconds which is quite poor.
It looks like the issue is the sheer number of requests.
The “waterfall” there is a good place to spot bottlenecks.
It’s showing lots and lots of little requests happening in serial which is taking all the time.
Perhaps combining some external resources like js and css into a single or at least fewer files would benefit you.
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