I’ve built a wordpress website using a great theme. The problem is that the loading time is regularly over 7 seconds.
I asked the theme developer about it, who said that they thought it was an issue with the hosting.
When I asked the hosts, they said they thought it was an issue with the theme.
I’ve done a test on Pingdom, which confirms the slow loading time. Unfortunately I don’t understand the results well enough to identify what the cause of the problem is.
I have multiple websites with the host and don’t experience this problem with any of them.
I’d be really grateful to anyone who could take a look at the Pingdom results and maybe help interpret them:
20 scripts and 14 style sheets to render the home page seems an awful lot. Combining them to reduce the number of requests and using compression might help.
That’s a staggering amount of css, I can’t imagine for a minute that as much as a tenth of it is needed for what is not the most complex layout.
One single stylesheet sf-combined.min.css is the single largest request on that page at 422.4 KB, almost as big as all the pictures combined, and that’s minified!
I would think that weeding out all the unused css would be a huge task, I don’t know what else to suggest. Though on some other pages there are images that could be optimised.
That’s a staggering amount of css, I can’t imagine for a minute that as much as a tenth of it is needed for what is not the most complex layout.