Performance issue on Toolset based website

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Problem: My site is slow

Solution: Use webpagetest.org to pinpoint problems. Use smaller, more optimized images. Cache static assets. Consolidate and minimize render-blocking assets. Utilize a CDN. Utilize a caching plugin.

Relevant Documentation: https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/

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Tagged: Access plugin, Toolset Forms, Types plugin, Views plugin

This topic contains 2 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by volodiaB 7 years, 3 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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January 20, 2017 at 9:29 am #480177

volodiaB

Hello,

I have performance issues on a website developed with the Toolset suite. E.g. hidden link

Can you help speed it up?

Regards, Volodia

January 20, 2017 at 6:21 pm #480377

Christian Cox

Hi Volo,

Performance tuning is definitely important for SEO and customer satisfaction with your site. Have you looked at this page in a tool like WebPageTest or something similar? Check out the waterfall here:

hidden link

Here are a few things I see at first glance:

1. The images being used for each property are unreasonably large. These need to be optimized much more effectively, and you should probably use a smaller size instead of cropping and resizing the full size image.
2. Static assets, like your CSS files, are not being cached effectively.
3. You don't appear to be using a CDN to deliver your assets.
4. Your site uses several render-blocking separate CSS and JS files that could be effectively minimized and consolidated. TTFB is about 2, but render start is about 5. That's 3 secs, which is substantial.
5. The time to first byte is almost 2 seconds, which might not be too bad but could probably be reduced with a caching plugin for WordPress.

These are the first steps I would recommend investigating and implementing before we try modifying database queries.

January 24, 2017 at 2:31 pm #481491

volodiaB

Hi Christian,

Thanks for your reply. I used those 2 plugins which helped speeding up the website:
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/

Here is the new test result for comparison: hidden link

Regards, Volo

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