WordPress Load Speed: a slider or page builder loads a pile of

When the request is wordpress load speed, we look at the live site first. The check we expect to matter is: a slider or page builder loads a pile of scripts on every URL.

What is usually wrong

• A slider or page builder loads a pile of scripts on every URL
• The site is fast in the office and slow from a phone
• A backup, security, or statistics plugin runs on each page view
• The admin is slow even when the public site is cached

What we look at

A slow WordPress site is usually a few heavy pages, a plugin on every request, or images that were never resized. We time the slow URL before we add another cache plugin.

• The plugin list, including what loads in the header
• The URL that is actually slow, measured more than once
• The query or remote call that dominates the slow request
• Whether a cache plugin is already installed and mis-set

How the job starts

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.

Most of this work happens on the site you already have. You do not need to be in Toronto. The first step is still a look at the live page.

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.