WordPress Accelerate: images are the original camera files

When the request is wordpress accelerate, we look at the live site first. The check we expect to matter is: images are the original camera files.

The failure we expect

• Images are the original camera files
• The home page is fine and one landing page takes ten seconds
• The host is on an old PHP version
• A slider or page builder loads a pile of scripts on every URL

The pieces we open

Caching a page that is slow because of one query makes the first visitor wait and hides the cause. The query or the plugin still has to be fixed.

• Whether a cache plugin is already installed and mis-set
• The PHP version and the hosting limits
• Image sizes on that page
• The plugin list, including what loads in the header

After you call

The first fix is the largest of those, not a stack of cache plugins. Caching comes after the page is doing less work, and only if it will not mix up carts or logins.

We measure the slow URL before we install anything. The time is usually in one plugin, one query, one set of images, or a PHP version the host left behind.

Computer Geek works from Toronto with clients in other cities. Distance does not change the check. Access to the host and a page that shows the problem does.

Call 905-426-1784. We look at the site and tell you what the work is before it starts. The service page for this is WordPress speed help.