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  Posted in: Cardinal
• November 6, 2015 at 2:08 am #226472
  lbdesign

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  Our web host (hostgator) ran a gtmetrix report on our site because it was using excessive system resources (all web hosts say this, I’m not complaining)

  1) The most critical item in the speed report is javascript. I found a few plugins that I was able to individually set to load in the footer (defer js parsing). Is there a way to defer more of these libraries? In particular, the themepunch revolution slider files are large, and I can’t find an option to defer them.

  2) And what is the “https://s.ytimg.com/…” item? Is that one of your theme files?

  Thank you.

  Here is the report:

  419.7KiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering.

  https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-embed-player-new-vfl-w1E5j/www-embed-player-new.js (151.9KiB)
  http://www.spiritseries.org/wp-content/plugins/revslider/rs-plugin/js/jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js?rev=4.6.91 (88.4KiB)
  http://www.spiritseries.org/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.11.3 (85.9KiB)
  http://www.spiritseries.org/wp-content/plugins/revslider/rs-plugin/js/jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js?rev=4.6.91 (80.4KiB)
  http://www.spiritseries.org/ (6.0KiB of inline JavaScript)
  http://www.spiritseries.org/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.2.1 (5.5KiB)
  https://www.youtube.com/embed/3C03YTnWWCY?showinfo=0&controls=1&modestbranding=1 (1.6KiB of inline JavaScript)

  November 9, 2015 at 11:04 am #226954
  David Martin – Support

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  Hi,

  Are you using W3 Total Cache? This plugin allows you to do that, however you will need to carefully setup the plugin options and test as deferring or changing JS ordering of file includes can return broken elements on the site.

  – David.

  November 20, 2015 at 4:13 am #230100
  lbdesign

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  Post count: 136

  Thank you but I thought according to the knowledgebase here, you recommend WP Super Cache, and warn that W3 Total Cache is problematic with Cardinal?
  I am using WP Super Cache per the KB’s recommendations.

  November 23, 2015 at 12:50 pm #230581
  David Martin – Support

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  November 25, 2015 at 4:32 am #231118
  lbdesign

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  Thanks David. It was not my decision to use Hostgator. The account at Hostgator is their “Business Plan” which is low-cost shared hosting, but it’s the more expensive of the 3 low-cost shared hosting plans they offer.
  If/when traffic increases, I can make a case to upgrade or move to a different host. At the moment, I’m mostly looking to be able to improve the score to show that efforts have been made and it meets a minimum standard for efficiency. Since loading times are somewhat subjective and subject to multiple variables (computer, connection, time of day, etc).

  November 26, 2015 at 11:21 am #231469
  David Martin – Support

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  There are a few things you can do extra to get a little more speed performance:

  1) Use this plugin, always flush the cache after making any ciste changes. https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/
  2) Reduce image sizes: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
  3) Use a content delivery network: MaxCDN (50% off blackfriday offer atm)
  4) Make use of Hostgator GZIP: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/technical/apache-htaccess/mod_deflate.

  These extra little tweaks is what will really get the site speeding.

  Thanks.

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