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Posted by: JessiMLP Jan 29 2018, 07:19 AM

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I'm on a tiny shoestring budget as I'm an indie author, and relatively new to the business. Every plugin I have is either free, or I'll be using it for life.

The website is extremely slow, and the Google Page Speed score is 49/100, and... quite honestly, I'm unsure of how to fix the problems it raises, such as:


Some of the things I've already done to try and combat this:
  1. Put my site through Cloudflare. Linked Cloudflare to W3 Total Cache Wordpress plugin. (Not at all sure I did any of that right, though.)
  2. Made a child theme and changed the header and footer php pages to have as few php queries as possible (removed php queries to get site title, stylesheet links, etc and made them static HTML). I love the theme, and how it looks. But, if I can achieve the same style and aesthetic with a less bloated theme, I'm all ears for theme suggestions.
  3. Got a plugin to restrict the amount of stored revision versions.
  4. Got another plugin to automatically clean up and repair the database.
  5. Got an image lazyload plugin to restrict loading elements to only what is in the user's browser viewport.
  6. Got an image optimizer plugin that automatically resizes and compresses? images on upload to ensure smaller file sizes.

Here's a list of all my plugins in alphabetical Order:
I do have plans to switch to a better hosting plan in the near future. Right now, it's on a shared hosting plan through InMotion Hosting (love them!). I just want this to give a good user experience when I officially launch it.

Thank you so much for reading this giant wall of text! Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.

Posted by: jimlongo Jan 30 2018, 10:41 PM

I think the best way to really speed up a WordPress site is to use the CometCache plugin.

It stores each page as an html file and serves that, so it will usually be served as a static html file.

Of course the page needs to be rebuilt every once in a while, but for most visitors the page will load lightning fast.

I've tried other caching plugins and they're really complicated and don't work that well, but this one does. i use it on a dozen sites and i can't live without it now.

Posted by: JessiMLP Jan 31 2018, 09:47 AM

QUOTE(jimlongo @ Jan 30 2018, 10:41 PM) *

I think the best way to really speed up a WordPress site is to use the CometCache plugin.

It stores each page as an html file and serves that, so it will usually be served as a static html file.

Of course the page needs to be rebuilt every once in a while, but for most visitors the page will load lightning fast.

I've tried other caching plugins and they're really complicated and don't work that well, but this one does. i use it on a dozen sites and i can't live without it now.


Thanks for the tip! Do you think that caching plugin would screw with the store/shopping cart? Having the site served as straight HTML sounds like a dream for everything else, but I wonder if it would mess with the coding and make the checkout experience a nightmare.

Posted by: jimlongo Jan 31 2018, 10:55 AM

You should test it of course, but there are settings to not cache certain pages. Might need the Pro version, I can't remember exactly.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/comet-cache/

Posted by: thematrix Feb 28 2018, 04:33 AM

I agree with @jimlongo, first, you have to test it for sure. What I will suggest, is using GT Metrix it provides a comprehensive analysis which might help you understand where your previous research is lacking. Also, https://www.1and1.com/digitalguide/hosting/blogs/make-your-wordpress-faster/ for making it faster. It rewiews some tips like tools for code optimization, caching plugins and more. Good luck smile.gif

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