Homepage loads very slowly

May 2014 WordPress Theme
GK User
Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:43 pm
Hi,

My website seems to be load very slowly. The the time to the first byte is 10 seconds +. See : http://madrasfuntools.com/wp2/ I think the reason behind this intial delay is some misconfiguration of the GK News Show Pro plugin. When I disable this plugin the website seems to load quickly and I don't see the delay. I am using this plugin on two pages my site and here is the code on one of the pages ( The code on the other page is very similar, only the data_source is different )

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[gknsp cache_time="0" widget_css_suffix="products" article_cols="4" article_rows="2" data_source_type="wp_woocommerce-wooc_latest" article_text_state="off" article_image_w="282" article_image_h="300" article_image_order="1" article_image_popup="off" article_title_order="2" article_info_format="{PRICE}{CART}" article_readmore_state="off" article_block_padding="10px 30px 30px 30px"]


I tried changing the cache_time to a different value on these pages but the pages then didn't render properly but the website loaded quickly. If I disable one of these two pages then the initial load time is cut by 5 seconds so it seems like each of these pages is adding 5 seconds each to the initial load time.

Can you please help ? I'll send the access details to the wordpress installation if required.

Cheers,
Manik
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Junior Boarder

GK User
Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:19 am
Hello,

Sure, please send me a PM with backend access and I'll check the issue.
Please notice that your website size is around 8MB, it's too much I think, first of all you should optimize your images, especially this one:
http://madrasfuntools.com/wp2/wp-conten ... t-up-1.png
is 3.4 MB
and this one:
http://madrasfuntools.com/wp2/wp-conten ... 888466.jpg
1.3MB
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