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06-18-2014 , 08:33 AM

ProPokerHUDs

centurion

Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 122

Our website (www.pokerhuds.com) is taking awfully long to load, ~15 seconds. It's just a simple WordPress website.

Hit us up propokerhuds@gmail.com if you are able to help.

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06-18-2014 , 08:46 AM

Nchabazam

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4,938

Cursory glance, whatever is delivering your javascript files is taking a huge amount of time. The page will choke while downloading JS files... it's usually why most sites have 100% of them in the footer (so the html above it renders first). You have some in the header, which may be by design, maybe not.

Try moving them to a cdn like cloudfront to significantly speed up delivery time.

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06-18-2014 , 10:14 AM

Larry Legend

Celtic Pride

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 42,244

Here's your worst offenders:

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06-18-2014 , 03:35 PM

well named

poorly undertitled

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 78,085

if that's google OpenSans you might get better performance loading it from google's font APIs:

Code:

<link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300italic,400italic,600italic,700italic,400,600,700,300" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

https://developers.google.com/fonts/

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06-19-2014 , 04:43 AM

ProPokerHUDs

centurion

Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 122

Thanks for all the advice!

Anyone interested in taking up the job?

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06-19-2014 , 07:22 AM

Gullanian

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 14,014

Try a new host. I'm waiting 14s to get any response from the server, you can see the load waterfall here:

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dgjy...pokerhuds.com/

There are various size optimisations you can make as well but I wouldn't even bother looking at them until you have a server that can respond faster than 14 seconds!

Last edited by Gullanian; 06-19-2014 at 07:29 AM.

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06-19-2014 , 12:40 PM

greg nice

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 9,997

Yeah if you are on some crap shared hosting such as hostgator then obv fix that first. I use www.webfaction.com and they are a great host for developers, super fast. Alternatively, you can look at a WP specific host such as http://wpengine.com/ but they are pretty expensive.

Also, many Wordpress plugins are coded poorly and are horribly inefficient. Remove most or look for alternatives.

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06-19-2014 , 02:35 PM

txpstwx

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,239

Static elements are served pretty quickly. Especially using the IP address (some of your images use the IP instead of the domain).

It's so slow that I would have to assume that apache/php is misconfigured.

You could probably run nginx on a different port as a test.

Last edited by txpstwx; 06-19-2014 at 02:42 PM.

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