website speed

[micheal_w]

Hi Guys,
we just changed our WP theme to yours couple of days ago and finished the setup. The site itself is awesome! However we do have a bit of issue regarding the loading speed.

1. We run the latest WP/Woo/plugins/theme versions, use W3 Total Cache + MaxCDN, the site hosted on a VPS server. All images have been save for web use and been compressed as much as possible. A test here 5.3s: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/enxl7i/http://www.lifewear.com.au

2. Here we achieved only 56% – which is pretty low I think… https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=www.lifewear.com.au Any recommendation regarding the “above-the-fold content” stuff recommended there?

3. It might be something I don’t know, but checking the site here https://geopeeker.com/fetch/?url=www.lifewear.com.au shows very strange results (it was all good before)

Thank you for your time,
Micheal

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[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi Michael,

1/2) We’d suggest using Better WordPress Minify for minification, that should speed it up quite a bit. Looks like plugins you are using have added quite a lot of stylesheets & scripts, which is likely the cause of the slowness.

3) Any idea what browser they are using there?

– Ed

[micheal_w]

Hi Ed, okay will try the plugin you recommended.

1-2) One of the reason was to switch to your theme that it is a more complex one and we don’t need to use that many plugin than before. At the moment we use 18 plugins all together, most of them for our admin backend part. Do you have any recommendation how to find out which plugins slow down the site? What would you do?

3) I am not sure 🙁

Thanks!
Micheal

[David Martin – Support]

Hi

You can start by using this plugin to see if there are any long processes or bottlenecks on your admin area: https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/.

Plugin Performance Profiler would give you a more simple idea also: https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/.

Your host may also be able to shed some light on any slow process that run on your site.

Thanks,
David.

[micheal_w]

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[David Martin – Support]

Hi Micheal,

We thoroughly recommend and 100% trust WerkPress, they handle our customers modifications and know the themes well.

You can submit a request for them to do this for you: http://www.swiftideas.com/customization/

Thanks,
David.

[micheal_w]

okay, thanks!

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

No problem 🙂

[David Martin – Support]

No problem.

Thanks,
David.