mangopo Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 What could I do to improve site speed? I have read the posts here and turned on PW's cache and made sure mod_deflate is installed. Google's webmaster tools is reporting load time of 7.2 seconds which is quite high (it used to be 2-3 seconds in our old website with no CMS). Analytics is showing page load speeds of over 10 seconds for Firefox users - I don't know how accurate that is. I have moved the site to a VPS server and increased RAM to 1 Gb but seen no improvement in site speed. The site has very little traffic. Is it a server issue or is it more about the Javascript or images on the site? It is pretty much clean html5+css3.. Facebook plugins? I have limited knowledge on server settings. One guy optimized my other site by changing server settings and there was a huge increase in site speed. Url is www.lentovertailu.fi.
diogo Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 I did a test with chrome tools, and it tells me that you have scripts and css inside the <body> I'm sure that this isn't the main problem, but it might influence the rendering speed. I would move them to the <head>
fenton Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Hi mangopo, loads fine here (slow connection 0.4 Mbit/s) Firebug/network console shows lot of waitin for FB related stuff though, e.g LikeBox 1,5s cheers, j
Martijn Geerts Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Reduce the amount of requests. Combine js & css files. PW is pretty quick it self... And external js % injected js can be slow sometimes...
Gazley Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Tried here (UK) and it all seems to load really well. No noticeable speed problems.
SiNNuT Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 No real problems for me (Netherlands) I've seen faster but it's loading ok and definitely not in the 7 seconds range.
ryan Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 Loaded fast for me … felt the same speed as any other fast site. There is a nice plugin for Firefox called YSlow (or something like that) that can help with debugging this stuff. But I'm not convinced Google is right about the load time.
MarcC Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 It seems the site is loading 62K of Facebook javascript. That must be annoying. It's a good thing you have deflate turned on. Also, looks like jquery is loaded twice. You could combine a few of these scripts probably too. But the site doesn't seem too slow to me. Nice work.
JeffS Posted September 7, 2012 Posted September 7, 2012 Google page speed test shows 88 out of 100. With some recommendations. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=http_3A_2F_2Fwww.lentovertailu.fi_2F&mobile=false 1
mangopo Posted September 13, 2012 Author Posted September 13, 2012 Thanks for the tips, I will try them out. This graph from Google's Webmaster Tools tells that there are some speed issues: The old site was a simple php page but did have the same flight search script with somewhat messy javascript.
mangopo Posted June 7, 2013 Author Posted June 7, 2013 I have managed to get it down from 7 to 4 seconds with traditional methods: server settings, compression, optimizing images etc. with the help of Google's PageSpeed. Server response time is still an issue but not related to PW, it is caused by a visitor tracking php script. My target is to get average loading times to under 3 seconds.
horst Posted June 7, 2013 Posted June 7, 2013 I have managed to get it down from 7 to 4 seconds with traditional methods: server settings, compression, optimizing images etc. with the help of Google's PageSpeed. Server response time is still an issue but not related to PW, it is caused by a visitor tracking php script. My target is to get average loading times to under 3 seconds. Maybe you can let the visitor tracking php script do its work after you have already flushed the page content?
DaveP Posted June 7, 2013 Posted June 7, 2013 Just looking at the home page, is there some duplication of .js files? (and all those custom fonts and cufon?)
mangopo Posted June 7, 2013 Author Posted June 7, 2013 Maybe you can let the visitor tracking php script do its work after you have already flushed the page content? Do you mean by moving the counter code to the end of index.php? I tried that but it started logging incorrect visitor times, no idea why. Just looking at the home page, is there some duplication of .js files? (and all those custom fonts and cufon?) It is still a bit messy.. a lot of work embedding the search script with custom php+js+css to the PW page template with it's own css+js.
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